Thank you Noel. May I suggest you review other sources of news as well as this one? Watch for the adjectives and adverbs in each article or opinion for slant. The articles I checked are decidedly one sided.
Here's what they say about themselves.....
news.pacificnews.org
About Us
Pacific News Service is a nonprofit media organization that was founded in 1969 as an alternative source of news and analysis on the U.S. role in Vietnam. Since then, we have evolved into a highly experimental communications hub for journalists, scholars, filmmakers, artists and young people dedicated to bringing the seldom heard, often most misunderstood or ignored voices and ideas into the public forum. PNS produces a daily news syndicate and sponsors magazine articles, books, TV segments (including Richard Rodriguez's essays for PBS's "News Hour with Jim Lehrer") and films (including the 1997 Oscar-winning documentary "Breathing Lessons").
PNS Programs
New California Media (www.ncmonline.com)
Founded in 1996 by Pacific News Service, New California Media (NCM) is an association of over 500 ethnic media organizations that promotes ethnic media and is now expanding nationwide. NCM's goal is to strengthen the editorial and economic viability of this increasingly influential but fragmented segment of America's communications industry. We do this by facilitating an editorial interchange among ethnic media outlets and expanding mainstream audiences' access to ethnic media content; by expanding access to advertisers through our annual EXPO & Awards and a growing media placement service that has channeled more than $3.5 million in ads to our media partners; and through multi-lingual polling that gives the audiences of ethnic media a voice in the public forum.
PNS Wire (www.pacificnews.org/wire/)
PNS syndicates daily stories through the AP wire to subscribing mainstream and community newspapers across the U.S. Serving as a conduit for youth, ethnic and other voices seldom heard in mainstream media, the PNS wire specializes in feature-length commentary, news analysis, and investigative reporting. Through editorial initiatives on hot topics like immigration, civil liberties threats, and hybrid identities, our stories offer an inclusive journalism that more accurately reflects a new America in the 21st century. (Subscription Information).
Youth Media (www.pacificnews.org/yct/)
Since the founding of YO! Youth Outlook magazine in 1991, the PNS Youth Communications Team has nurtured a new generation of communicators by encouraging youth expression in an adult-dominated and media-saturated world. Unlike most youth media programs, we draw on the most marginal and invisible sectors of youth culture—from juvenile hall detainees to homeless, immigrant and minority teenagers and young adults. Through an integrated immersion in print and broadcast media, educational outreach and public forums, we encourage young people to imagine themselves as participating in a wider public forum. Our youth communicators develop a deeper sense of civic identity by creating media that bring visibility to their own experience and connect it to society at large. |
