Well, it looks like Mr. Rupert Murdoch finally bought the Wall Street Journal. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone here at DNHC defending the WSJ's editorial page (especially their role as a less than fact-based cheerleader during the run up to the Iraq invasion), but we will mourn the loss of yet another professional reporting outlet, as it succumbs to still more media consolidation. The WSJ still has some excellent reporters, but we are greatly concerned that the paper's "news" articles will now become just another political mouthpiece for Mr. Murdoch, just like Fox News, and all of his other media platforms. We think that this is a much more likely outcome than the WSJ suddenly turning into a sensationalist tabloid focusing on the woes of Paris Hilton.
Our primary purpose is to promote Democracy Now!, but we at least wanted to let you know about two new progressive news sources here in the High Country--neither of which have been approved by Mr. Murdoch! Charter Cable is now carrying AGR TV News, and Liberty News TV. Both are high-quality, professionally produced news shows. AGR TV is the new television version of the Asheville Global Report newspaper, and it is produced in western NC. AGR is the winner of 10 "Project Censored" awards, and strives to cover issues that are significantly under reported by the mainstream corporate media. LNTV is produced in Maine, and offers a wide range of progressive programming-from satire to independent documentaries.
Here are the decidedly un-Rupert-like details:
AGR TV airs each Monday night at 6:30 pm on Charter Cable Channel 2.
LNTV airs each Sunday night at 8:00 pm on Charter Cable Channel 2.
You can also see these programs on the web:
http://www.agrnews.org/?section=tv
http://www.libertynewstv.com/
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