Beware of Right-Leaning Control of the Left-Leaning Media
By Donella Meadows
–April 6, 1995–
“The appropriation is gone,” said Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich about the Corporation for Public Broadcasting: “The power of the Speaker is the power of recognition, and I will not recognize any proposal that will appropriate money for the CPB.”
Why not? How could anyone begrudge the piddling public support (19 cents of every $1000 we [...]
We Are More Than What We Own
By Donella Meadows
–March 30, 1995–
It was 1992 and photographer Peter Menzel had been covering oil fires in Kuwait and clan wars in Somalia, when he heard about the wild success of Madonna’s sex book. The contrast between that exercise in fantasy and his experience of the planet’s hot spots was too much. “I thought the world needed a reality check,” [...]
Dear Folks: March 25, 1995
Dear Folks,It’s a typical March day, which means not cold but not warm either, not completely cloudy but only fleetingly sunny, no longer muddy but not quite solid underfoot. March around here is a month that tries one’s patience. We are desperately ready for spring. Signs of spring are dangled before us. But we can’t yet strip off layers of [...]
Hands Around the Capitol
By Donella Meadows
–March 23, 1995–
This idea was put into my head by Peter G. Brown of the School of Public Affairs of the University of Maryland, and it won’t go away. Just imagine, he said, millions of citizens going to Washington some day, joining hands, surrounding the Capitol Building, and suggesting, ever so politely, that neither the Congress nor the [...]
Keeping People in Cages
By Donella Meadows
–March 16, 1995–
The other day I got a letter from an inmate in a maximum security prison.
It was a second letter, actually. He had written to me before about the violence of commercial television. I sent that letter on to a friend who is working on a TV project. She replied, and he is writing a piece for [...]
