Withdrawal symptoms are brutal, especially when they last for decades. And we've been jonesing for something approaching journalism on the evening news for a long, long time.

What would you say if I told you that there's a network bursting onto the scene that's going to present you with real journalism untainted by corporate or governmental money -- because it refuses to accept any? That's staffed with "unbought and unbossed" journalists from around the world -- Pakistan, Brazil, Canada, India, as well as the United States? That could have told you in real time that Colin Powell was making things up before a war broke out? I hope you'd respond as I did...

TELL... ME... MORE!

[Cross-posted at Daily Kos (January 1, 2007), ePluribus Media, and The Next Agenda]

Now that we've broken a corrupt party's stranglehold on political power, it's time to put the corporate Goliaths of the media on notice. I was pleased to see a healthy debate two days after Election Day about restoration of the Fairness Doctrine. Whether you find yourself pro or con, it's great that the subject is being discussed. However, I want to tell you about an entirely different approach toward reclaiming truth on the airwaves.

[cross-posted at Blue Mass Group and Daily Kos]

In late April, Air America "pre-founders" Sheldon and Anita Drobny came to Boston to meet with Save Boston's Progressive Talk Radio, which is working to put progressive talk back on the airwaves. The Drobnys spent most of that time meeting with politicians and potential investors, but also spent an evening with the group at progressive comedian Jimmy Tingle's theater in Somerville. Many people from our group who couldn't attend have been begging for a description of the event, and I thought I'd post it here for the enjoyment and edification of Bostonians and non-Bostonians alike.