“Fake News” is a fake of news in that its contemporary meaning, use, deployment masks an initial “fakeness” of “news” itself. Thanks to professor Gus Griffin of Montgomery College for inviting and hosting this presentation (and subsequent As to unheard Qs).
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I and some others were asked recently by Dhoruba bin-Wahad to consider the story (below) from Al Jazeera’s The Listening Post at the end of 2017 called “History through Cuban Eyes: Noticiero ICAIC.” Specifically, we were being asked by bin-Wahad to produce stories and more discussion around the politics of art, media and popular culture…
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Over the years I’ve developed versions of this presentation and have been asked for copies. I just started messing with Prezi and put the latest version there. These are visuals that accompany a discussion of Malcolm X and King‘s actual radical politics and the response of the state and mass media. Here The Washington Post…
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