Part 5 of a series on Supersized Media, from http://www.the-size-issue.blogspot.com FAR from being a conspiracy, Noam Chomsky contends that the manufacture of consent (the fabrication of peoples ultimate right to choose) is the logical result of the "free-market". He maintains that, "most biased...

Some local blogs that I'm involved with currently: The Naked Artist – blog dedicated to public nudity and the global naked art movement http://www.disrobe.blogspot.com The Size Issue – blog dedicated to Supersized Media, especially the Independent Group's fixation with size: http://www.the-size...

"Non-racialism envisaged a society in which race ceased to matter as a defining identity, but only after substantial equality among the races is achieved." Feriel Haffajee "White is not the new black" THE DANGER with predicating non-racialism on an economic struggle — the equality of rands and ce...

Supersized Media consolidation, the dissenting voices are dead, and much much more: http://www.the-size-issue.blogspot.com

Supersized Media: Part Four (from http://www.the-size.issue.blogspot.com) TO DATE, Independent Media owns 18 titles in the Western Cape's newsprint sector alone. This does not include vast media holdings worldwide, over 120 newspapers in 12 countries, a considerable online presence, and supersize...

PERHAPS South Africa needs a lustration – an institutional bloodletting in which the last of the Verenka Pashkas are abandoned along with the hemline of the past? In fact isn't it safe to say that we all have a Verenka Pashka sitting somewhere in the family tree — an apartheid skeleton that refus...