Mark Lloyd, Barack Obama and the Media Justice Movement « RBO

Mark Lloyd, Barack Obama and the Media Justice Movement « RBO: "Drawing inspiration from the environmental justice movement, media justice proponents are developing race-, class- and gender-conscious visions for changing media content and structure.

That’s what Makani Themba-Nixon and Nan Rubin wrote in the November 17, 2003, issue of the Institute for Policy Studies-affiliated The Nation. The authors continue (Emphasis added throughout this article.):

Using media as an organizing tool is certainly not new. For more than fifty years, America has nurtured a vibrant, alternative, overtly political media voice. But in the past few years, in response to glaring news failures like the 2000 presidential election and the “homeland security” journalism in the wake of 9/11, a broad convergence of activists launched a coordinated drive to reform media and use it to advance their broader agendas."