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University Hides Obama Records From Media
by Mark Impomeni
The University of Illinois at Chicago finds
itself in the middle of a growing controversy
over the records of the Chicago Annenberg
Challenge, which it maintains at its Richard
J. Daley Library.
Sen. Barack Obama served on the Annenberg
board of directors from 1995 until the
project ended in 2001, spending three years
as its first chairman. It was on the broad of
the Annenberg Challenge where Sen. Obama
served with the notorious former head of the
1960's radical group, William Ayers. The
Annenberg Challenge was founded by Ayers and
was responsible for administering a private
grant of nearly $50 million to Chicago public
schools.
Journalists researching Sen. Obama's
background as he prepares to accept the
Democratic Party's nomination for president
have been seeking to get a look at the
records. But the Daley library has refused,
after initially agreeing to make the records
public, claiming that the donor of the
material has not given permission for the
records to be viewed by the press.
The documents could shed more light on the
relationship between Obama and Ayers. Obama
is known to have visited Ayers' home at least
once, attending a fund raiser there; and is
believed to have gotten his start in Chicago
politics in part with Ayers' blessing.Asked
yesterday about the controversy over the
records, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, son of
the late mayor Richard J. Daley for whom the
library is named, dismissed concerns over
Obama's ties to Ayers, saying that Ayers'
radical days are behind him.
"Bill Ayers-I've said this-his father was a
great friend of my father. I'll be very
frank. Vietnam divided families, divided
people. It was a terrible time of our
country. People didn't know one another.
Since then...[Ayers] has been in the
forefront of a lot of education issues and
helping us in public schools and things like
that.People keep trying to align [Ayers] with
Barack Obama. It's really unfortunate.
They're friends. So what? People do make
mistakes in the past. You move on. This is a
new century, a new time. He reflects back and
he's been making a strong contribution to our
community."
The Obama campaign has said in the past that
Obama and Ayers were "friendly," implying a
past relationship. Daley's comment indicates
that the two remain friends.
If the records indicate a deeper or an
ongoing relationship between Obama and Ayers,
it would be a major problem for the Obama
campaign. Ayers and the Weather Underground
are responsible for a spate of terrorist
bombings in the waning days of the Vietnam
War, including against the U.S. Capitol and
the Pentagon. Ayers was never convicted in
connection to the bombings because his case
was thrown out on an evidence gathering
technicality, and he has never publicly
repented for his alleged actions. As recently
as September 11, 2001, in an op-ed published
by the New York Times, Ayers said that he did
not regret setting the bombs. "I don't think
we did enough," he said.
The Obama campaign has said that it has no
control over the records or the University of
Illinois library that is keeping them sealed.
But Obama has based his appeal on his
superior judgment, and questions about his
relationship to an unrepentant terrorist cast
a dark cloud over that judgment. Questions
will persist until the records can be
reviewed. The Obama campaign would do well to
publicly call for the records to be opened,
and allow for the press to report on their
contents.
Tags : World Trade Center Attacks WTC 9/11 People Falling to their Horrific Deaths LethalKillingMachine |
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Durée : 98 s |
| Prometeus - The Media Revolution |
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http://www.casaleggioassociati.it/thefutureof
media
Subtitles also available in:
Español:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD4XtZqJu-U
日本語:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNnesYfBFw0
Man is God.
He is everywhere, he is anybody, he knows
everything.
This is the Prometeus new world.
All started with the Media Revolution, with
Internet, at the end of the last century.
Everything related to the old media vanished:
Gutenberg, the
copyright, the radio, the television, the
publicity.
The old world reacts: more restrictions for
the copyright, new laws against non
authorized copies. Napster, the music peer to
peer company is sued.
At the same time, free internet radio
appears;
TIVO, the internet television, allows to
avoid publicity; the Wall Street Journal goes
on line; Google launches Google news.
Millions of people read daily the biggest on
line newspaper. Ohmynews written by thousands
of journalists; Flickr becomes the biggest
repository in the history of photos, YouTube
for movies.
The power of the masses.
A new figure emerges: the prosumer, a
producer and a consumer of information.
Anyone can be a prosumer.
The news channels become available on
Internet.
The blogs become more influential than the
old media.
The newspapers are released for free.
Wikipedia is the most complete encyclopedia
ever.
In 2007 Life magazine closes.
The NYT sells its television and declares
that the future is digital. BBC follows.
In the main cities of the world people are
connected for free.
At the corners of the streets totems print
pages from blogs and digital magazines.
The virtual worlds are common places on the
Internet for millions of people.
A person can have multiple on line
identities.
Second Life launches the vocal avatar.
The old media fight back.
A tax is added on any screen; newspapers,
radios and televisions are financed by the
State; illegal download from the web is
punished with years of jail.
Around 2011 the tipping point is reached: the
publicity investments are done on the Net.
The electronic paper is a mass product:
anyone can read anything on plastic paper.
In 2015 newspapers and broadcasting
television disappear, digital terrestrial is
abandoned, the radio goes on the Internet.
The media arena is less and less populated.
Only the Tyrannosaurus Rex survives. The Net
includes and unifies all the content. Google
buys Microsoft. Amazon buys Yahoo! and become
the world universal content leaders with BBC,
CNN and CCTV.
The concept of static information - books,
articles, images - changes and is transformed
into knowledge flow.
The publicity is chosen by the content
creators, by the authors and becomes
information, comparison, experience.
In 2020 Lawrence Lessig, the author of 'Free
Culture', is the new US Secretary of Justice
and declares the copyright illegal.
Devices that replicate the five senses are
available in the virtual worlds. The reality
could be replicated in Second Life.
Any one has an Agav (agent-avatar) that finds
information, people, places in the virtual
worlds.
In 2022 Google launches Prometeus, the Agav
standard interface.
Amazon creates Place, a company that
replicates reality. You can be on Mars, at
the battle of Waterloo, at the Super Bowl as
a person. It's real.
In 2027 Second Life evolves into Spirit.
People become who they want.
And share the memory. The experiences. The
feelings. Memory selling becomes a normal
trading.
In 2050 Prometeus buys Place and Spirit.
Virtual life is the biggest market on the
planet. Prometeus finances all the space
missions to find new worlds for its
customers: the terrestrial avatar.
Experience is the new reality.
Voice: Philip K. Dick Avatar.
Date: 6th April 2051
Lugar: desconocido
Tags : prometeus prometheus future of media e-ink electronic paper wi-fi wi-max memory selling Lessig Casaleggio |
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Affichage : 502736
Durée : 314 s |
| Media Caught Lying, Version2 |
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I stumbled on a stunning disconnect between
the major media version of election coverage
and candidate appearance trends on the
internet. The Mainstream Media seems to have
largely ignored something major on the web.
This version corrects a minor error in the
first version. Note: This video has attracted
a lot of attention from hater-trolls so I may
block anyone that comes here to make trouble.
All respectful and intelligent discussion is
welcome.
Tags : presidential election campaign barack obama hillary clinton john mccain ron paul media lies |
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Affichage : 229142
Durée : 453 s |
| A Portal to Media Literacy |
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Presented at the University of Manitoba June
17th 2008. (for those of you waiting for the
Library of Congress presentation, it will be
posted July 19th-ish.)
From Stephen's Lighthouse:
http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com/arch
ives/2008/07/michael_wesch_l.html
"Many of you have probably seen Kansas State
University prof Michael Wesch's
thought-provoking video, "A
Vision of Students Today".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o.
Recently Dr. Wesch spoke at the University of
Manitoba where he explained the the basis of
this video in a talk entitled, "Michael Wesch
and the Future of Education." I found it
fascinating! He describes how he so naturally
incorporates emerging technologies into his
courses from the smallest seminar type class
to the largest lecture theatre filled class.
More importantly he not only talks about the
technologies but how he encourages
extraordinary participation and collaboration
from his students by engaging them in
meaningful learning activities.
Although the video is 66 minutes long...pour
a coffee, iced tea or glass of wine and enjoy
this dynamic presentation from a master
teacher."
http://umanitoba.ca/ist/production/streaming/
podcast_wesch.html
Dubbed "the explainer" by popular geek
publication Wired because of his viral
YouTube video that summarizes Web 2.0 in
under five minutes, cultural anthropologist
Michael Wesch brought his Web 2.0 wisdom to
the University of Manitoba on June 17.
During his presentation, the Kansas State
University professor breaks down his attempts
to integrate Facebook, Netvibes, Diigo,
Google Apps, Jott, Twitter, and other
emerging technologies to create an education
portal of the future.
"It's basically an ongoing experiment to
create a portal for me and my students to
work online," he explains. "We tried every
social media application you can think of.
Some worked, some didn't."
Tags : pedagogy media literacy culture significance college |
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Durée : 3972 s |
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