Would you like to know how many people have visited this page? Or how reputable the author is? Simply
sign up for a Advocate premium membership and you'll automatically see this data on every article. Plus a lot more, too.
 SHARE 
|
Michael Gillespie
|
Michael Gillespie writes regularly about peace and social justice issues. A 1999 graduate of the Greenlee School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Iowa State University, he was inducted a member of Kappa Tau Alpha, the national honor society of journalism and mass communications. He has previously worked for Washington Report on Middle East Affaurs, The Independent Monitor, WUOT-fm, the University of Tennesee at Knoxville NPR affiliate station, and as project director for community radio station WDVX-fm. His reportage has been broadcast internationally by Swiss Radio International. He co-founded the Knoxville (TN) Writers Guild in 1993, served as Executive Director of the Tennessee Writers Alliance (1995), and as vice-chair and chair of the Ames (IA) Interfaith Council (2003-2006).
OpEd News Member for 698 week(s) and 1 day(s)
16 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 191 Comments, 1 Diaries, 0 Polls
List By Date
Friday, September 20, 2013All Across America, Flags at Half Mast, Again. Monday's gun massacre at the Navy Yard in Washington, DC provides additional evidence of the socially destabilizing nature of the deluge of increasingly violent and bloody mass media product that passes for entertainment in the USA.
Saturday, December 25, 2010The Road to Recovery: Heeding Eisenhower's Warning This article explores the rise of what President Dwight David Eisenhower referred to as the "military-industrial complex" and the effects of "a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions" on American life and culture.
Thursday, January 17, 2013Biden and Obama Give Hollywood a Free Pass for Inciting Violence Violence is at the center of American popular culture because violence is at the center of the entertainment industry's most lucrative product lines and revenue streams. Politicians are loathe to address the problem of violent media content that incites violence.
Sunday, September 8, 2013CBS's Face the Nation: Blatant Pro-Israel Pro-War Bias Revealed Pro-Israel, pro-war bias is increasingly evident in mainstream media as AIPAC and the lobby push for US military action against Syria.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010War Alarm: Waking Up from Reagan's Nightmare The Roosevelt administration's wartime economic policies were astonishingly successful, but today they are widely disparaged as interference in the "free market." The USA has not decisively won a major military confiict since 1945.
Saturday, December 15, 2012Eleven Days before Christmas: Carnage in Connecticut Big Media play a big role in America's continuing epidemic of mass killings.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012Rachel Corrie Presente! The Haifa District Court's verdict in the case brought by Rachel Corrie's family may be viewed as vindication by ardent Zionists, but in the court of public opinion it serves as official confirmation of Rachel's martyrdom by the IDF.
Thursday, February 24, 2022The US and NATO Cross a Line Analysis of the crisis in Europe precipitated by the US/NATO expansion into the sphere of influence
Thursday, January 3, 2013Big Media Gatekeepers Prohibit Substantive Discussion, Shift Blame for Gun Massacres Wealthy Big Media gatekeepers deny that violent media content has any connection to real world violence while they attempt to prohibit any substantive discussion of the problem.
Monday, September 26, 2016Five Dead in Washington: Yet Another Call of Duty Mass Murder? Gun massacre at Washington mall just the most recent example of video game fantasies come to bloody fruition
Thursday, January 20, 2011Big Media, Big Politics, and Violence in America Socially destabilizing violent entertainment programming and vitriolic political rhetoric mean big profits for criminally irresponsible Big Media corporations.
Wednesday, December 26, 2012Police in American Schools? The entertainment industry shelters with its lucrative and socially-destabilizing media products behind the First Amendment while the National Rifle Association abuses the Second Amendment to endanger the public safety.
Sunday, July 22, 2012Media Violence Comes Home to Roost Yet another mass murder, this time in a movie theater rather than a school, raises serious question that media moguls and their operatives will studiously avoid.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011Iowa Veterans Lead State-Wide Peace Rally in Des Moines Iowa chapter 161 of Veterans For Peace organized a state-wide rally to end the wars on March 19 in Des Moines.
Wednesday, March 9, 2022Taking It to the Streets in Des Moines Iowa peace and social justice community activists are taking it to the streets to protest the war in Ukraine.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012Celebrate Labor Day by Voting Democratic! A former union shipfitter and first- and mid-level corporate manager reflects and opines on the causes of the USA's severe and painfully prolonged manufacturing slump.
