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This video provides explains how the media fits into political and social change and specifically addresses the following questions:

* How is the Press supposed to Work?
* How and why does the Press act like an Echo Chamber?
* How is media changing?
* What does it mean that the "news is becoming a conversation"?
* Will these new media changes affect the nature of politics?
* How does The Echo Chamber Project fit into all of this?

Featuring: Amy Goodman, Lawrence Grossman, Jim Lobe, Jonathan Landay, Richard Sambrook, Jay Rosen, Dan Gillmor, Jeff Jarvis, Doc Searls & Merrill Brown.

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For the past couple of days, the Drudge Report has been running excerpts from Bill Sammon's latest book "Strategery" [sic]. Today's Drudge top headline was "Bush Cheers Decline of Mainstream Media, Rise of Alternative Press" -- which provides further validation to the trend that I elaborated in this video: Government Bypassing the Press.

Sammon interviewed Bush and a number of senior advisors about the pre-election "Memogate," where Bush claims that CBS explicitly "conspired" to harm his campaign. Drudge writes that "Memogate has helped accelerate the decline of the mainstream media, generally defined as CBS, NBC, ABC, The New York Times and other establishment news outlets."

Video essay in response to Jay Rosen's "Dick Cheney Did Not Make a Mistake By Not Telling the Press He Shot a Guy" bog post -- featuring Chris Nolan, Mindy Finn, Hugh Hewitt, John H. Brown, Don Beck, Steve Rubel, Merrill Brown, Tom Rosenstiel, Congressman Rob Simmons, and a virtual Jay Rosen.

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Music: On The Moon (Trip Hop mix) by disharmonic

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Listen to the Interview with Merrill Brown, Media Consultant, MMB Media LLC (Length: 21:15)

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October 5th, 2005

Listen to the Interview with Andrew Nachison, Director, The Media Center (Length: 9:43)

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Listen to the Interview with Dan Gillmor, Author of "We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People" & Center for Citizen Media (Length: 8:20)

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May 16th, 2005

Listen to the Interview with Rebecca MacKinnon, Former CNN Reporter, Global Voices Online, RConversation & Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society (Length: 18:40)

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May 16th, 2005

Listen to the Interview with Markos Moulitsas of DailyKos.com (Length: 12:15)

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Listen to the Interview with Hugh Hewitt, HughHewitt.com & Talk Show Host (Length: 12:42)

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May 16th, 2005

Listen to the Interview with Sheldon Rampton of PRWatch.org & SourceWatch.org (Length: 14:45)

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May 16th, 2005