| | MediaChannel.org - NEWS DISSECTOR | Sleepless In Stockholm |
 | | I was, I hoped, extricating myself for a while from the omnipresent reach of U.S. media as I headed for Scandinavia to bring word of the MediaChannel to the Tempo Documentary Festival, an annual event showcasing independent films along with radio programming, photography and people like myself with ideas deemed innovative. |
 | | Both pointed to the same trends that concern media critics worldwide: mounting corporate control, media concentration and alongside it, a softening of media content, a dumbing down of news and the growing influence of commercial values and formats. |
 | | One of Ordfront's editors told me their plans for taking on the global media with a war crimes-type tribunal slated to be held during a popular book fair next summer, and to be presided over by world-renowned media critics. |
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