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The Rotten Culture at BP

Corporate malfeasance at its best. A compendium of articles on BP is found at Columbia Journalism Review

Online Journalism--Where Advertisers Make Content Too!

A long New York Times Magazine piece (5/16/10) aboutÊstart-up online journalismÊoutlets brings us some troubling news about the wall between editorial content and advertising:

The Right to Discriminate?

On Megyn Kelly's Fox News show, Fox News employee John Stossel said: "Private businesses ought to get to discriminate. And I won't won't ever go to a place that's racist and I will tell everybody else not to and I'll speak against them. But it should be their right to be racist."

New York to Launch Human Trafficking Awareness Campaign Citywide

The campaign features print advertisements in both English and Spanish that draw attention to the realities of human trafficking while urging New Yorkers to report suspected activity and victims to seek help. The ads, created by Grey Worldwide in partnership with the Somaly Mam Foundation and the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City, will appear in subway stations and bus shelters in all five boroughs beginning on May 20.

Studies Show Aggressive Men Favored In Prehistoric Caves, Modern Offices

"Chronic exhibitions of strength" is a funny way to put it, but also a pretty good formulation of the unrealistic and pointless expectations society has of men. . .

Jamie Scott: 2 Consecutive Life Sentences For Stealing $11, Sentenced To Death By Prison Health Care

"After being convicted on questionable evidence, Jamie Scott and her sister Gladys received two consecutive life sentences apiece for a 1993 armed robbery in which no one was hurt and the take was $11."

Mary Daly Lives On

Radical US theologian and the world's first feminist philosopher

Are Americans a Broken People?

Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being screwed do not "set them free" but instead further demoralize them? Yes. It is called the "abuse syndrome." How do abusive pimps, spouses, bosses, corporations, and governments stay in control?