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Scholars are so busy criticizing academe they forgot to criticize Twitter.

This week, we explore how America's market-driven media have undermined democracy — and how more robust public media in the U.S. might help right the ship.

The Daily Yonder Digital Startup Fills News Niche in Wheeling, West Virginia Can Ledenews.com produce local journalism that thrives in a small market? News entrepreneur Steve Novotney plans to find out. Steve Novotney (Photo by John W. Miller) Like many American boys in the 1970s and 1980s, Steve Novotney of Wheeling, West Virginia, had a paper route. His bicycle, carting ink-stained sheets of print in bags strapped on the handlebars, has vanished into hazy memory, but there’s still...

Over 100 Japanese lawmakers call for a UN Parliamentary Assembly DWB Building of the National Diet in Tokyo. Image taken in 2011. Source: Flickr/Dick Thomas Johnson, CC BY 2.0 According to the Japanese Parliamentary Group for World Federation, more than 100 members of the Japanese House of Representatives and the House of Councillors, the two chambers of the National Diet, in recent weeks endorsed an international call for the creation of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly. Signatories ...