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    miniaturka strony http://www.rain.org/~openmind//medstud1.htm   » Site title: How the News Media Covered a Media Merger
    » Site description: Analysis uses media coverage of Time-Warner merger to illustrate how consolidation of corporate ownership limits and distorts news coverage. Christopher Pieper and Kristen Hughes at U. Texas at Austin Graduate School of Journalism. (From The Real News Pages.)

    miniaturka strony http://www.radiodiversity.com/infobandits.html   » Site title: Info-Bandits
    » Site description: Article that criticizes the influence of industry money and lack of public interest considerations in the adoption of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. (From In These Times.)

    miniaturka strony http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/134231   » Site title: Internet Part Of The Media Continuum
    » Site description: Explanation from investment point of view of how mergers between offline and online media companies are logical.

    miniaturka strony http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=7&issue_area_id=6   » Site title: Issue - Corporate Ownership
    » Site description: Articles and commentaries critical of corporate media dominance from FAIR.

    miniaturka strony http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/atlweb/flashbks/media/media.htm   » Site title: Media Mergers -- Atlantic Monthly Flashback
    » Site description: A look back at the early days of corporate control and consolidation of media ownership. A compilation of three late 1960's articles warning about the trend. From Atlantic Monthly archives.

    miniaturka strony http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Media/MediaMonopoly_Bagdikian.html   » Site title: Media Monopoly by Ben Bagdikian
    » Site description: Excerpts from book critical of concentration of ownership of media.

    miniaturka strony http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1995/05/mm0595_07.html   » Site title: Nicholas Johnson on Media Monopoly
    » Site description: Interview with former FCC Commissioner and author of "How to Talk Back to Your Television" about possible implications of media monopolies. (1995)

    miniaturka strony http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/sep1999/merg-s11.shtml   » Site title: World Socialist Website -- Monopolies Tighten Grip on the Media
    » Site description: Article critical of media monopolies and lack of news coverage and public debate about them. (Sept.11,1999)

    miniaturka strony http://metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=12625   » Site title: Metro Times Detroit: The Threat to the Net,
    » Site description: Commentary by Pat Aufderheide originally in the February 2000 issue of The Progressive magazine contending that corporate cable and Internet providers may destroy freedom of access and expression on the Internet. (February 2, 2000)

  • Capitalist Media Monopoly? Think Again - Article by conservative columnist Brent Bozell contending that liberal fears of corporate control of media is a myth. (September 7, 1995)

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A couple hobbled into a Washington (state) emergency room covered in bloody restaurant towels. The man had his around his waist, and the woman had hers around her head.

They eventually explained to doctors that they had gone out that evening for a romantic dinner. Overcome with passion, the woman crept under the table to administer oral sex to the man.

While in the act she had an epileptic fit, which caused her to clamp down on the man''s penis and wrench it from side to side. In agony and desperation, the man grabbed a fork and stabbed her in the head until she let go....YEEOOOOOOOUCH!

Humor of the day

December 26, 1999

Dear Santa,

You must be surprised that I''m writing to you today, the 26th of December. Well I would very much like to clear up certain things that have occurred since the beginning of the month, when, filled with illusion, I wrote you my letter.

I asked for a bicycle, an electric train set, a pair of roller blades, and a football uniform. I destroyed my brain studying the whole year. Not only was I the first in my class, but I had the best grades in the whole school.

I''m not going to lie to you, there was no one in my entire neighborhood that behaved better than me, with my parents, my brothers, my friends, and with my neighbors. I would go on errands, and even help the elderly cross the street. There was virtually nothing within reach that I would not do for humanity.

What balls do you have leaving me a fucking yo-yo, a stupid whistle, and a pair of socks? What the fuck were you thinking you fat son of a bitch?!

That you have taken me for a sucker the whole fucking year to come out with some shit like this under the tree. As if you hadn''t fucked me enough, you gave that little faggot across the street so many toys that he can''t even walk into his house.

Don''t let me see you trying to fit your big ass down my chimney next year. I''ll fuck you up. I''ll throw rocks at those stupid reindeer and scare them away so you''ll have to walk back to the fucking North Pole, just like what I have to do now since you didn''t get me that fucking bike.

FUCK YOU SANTA. Next year you''ll find out how bad I can be, you FAT-SON-OF-A-BITCH!

Sincerely,
Little Johnny