*Reading for Awareness:

www.iht.com Free Online International Harold Tribune, "The World's Daily Newspaper." www.bbc.co.uk The BBC website is perhaps the most generous website in the world. With educational content, it cannot be beat. This is an upbeat and generous teaching tool that every global family should visit often for fun learning. (Can be translated into 30 languages!) It is really fabulous. Explore the A-Z index for almost everything you can imagine. www.nytimes.com Free Online www.washingtonpost.com Free Online with simple registration. www.thebigproject.co.uk/news Take advantage of this link to read the views, for yourself, in the newspapers of Africa, Asia, The Americas, Australia, The Middle East, and all of Europe. Check in with the world this way, at least bi-weekly. See for yourself how different countries in the world view today's global situations. www.truthout.org Recycles some the best and to-the-point publications, for free. Read many of the best journalists who are writing today. english.aljazeera.net Free Online Breaking news you won't hear about in the U.S.

National Conference for Media Reform:
"Reform Media: Transform Democracy"
www.freepress.net

Educational free Public Television: (The secret art of using this media)
Television is a tool that is misused more than it is used well. But when television first came on the scene in America, the country's foremost radio news reporter, Edward R. Murrow simply said, "This thing can teach." With sight and sound engaged, television is a powerful medium, and watching TV can be mastered by careful selection. While it is important to balance a little time watching TV, with a lot of time exercising outdoors, talking with family and friends and reading good books, it is not really a virtue to throw-out the technology because it can be hard to stop watching. There are enriching and informing programs as well as entertainment and crucial news -- if you can find them. Just locate them and watch nothing else. Our recommendation is for families to own just one television and put it in a common area of the living space (no tv in children's rooms.) Once a week sit as a family unit and decide which programs will be watched. Take control. One show a day is good, but there are exceptions. Just watch only the best stuff, omit the garbage. Very young children should be protected from TV screens and everyone should be aware that screen emissions change the brain and affects our eyes. Don't forget: Television station's schedules are posted online.
www.pbs.org (This web site offers rich education support for parents and teachers, and may allow taping their shows for educational uses.) PBS Teacher's Source

Other Media Online:

Newspapers San Francisco Chronicle A West coast voice. www.sfgate.com Washington Post Washington DC's daily newspaper. www.washingtonpost.com Reuters "News and financial intelligence." www.reuters.com British Broadcasting Company Great Education Sections www.bbc.co.uk The Guardian London's premiere Sunday Newspaper. www.guardian.co.uk Subscribe to Newspapers Magazines: Harper's www.harpers.org The Nation www.thenation.com The New Yorker www.newyorker.com Utne Reader www.utne.com Magazine Subscription

Radio:
OPB.org Oregon Public Broadcast
NPR.org National Public Radio
KLCC.org In Eugene Oregon, this little radio station offers radio the old fashion way; Local DJs and local announcers inform the public and interact in the community for the greater good.
Alternativeradio.org Audio energy for Democracy.
AirAmerica.com Hear Thom Hartmann and Randi Rhodes.

The Kindle Reading Revolution:

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