Being a man in this culture requires you to confront every challenge and conflict boldly...except intimacy.  Intimacy is more daunting than a burning building for many men.  And intimacy with other men?  Expressed non-sexual affection... forget … MORE ►►

Henry Giroux (Culture, Politics & Pedagogy: A Conversation With Henry Giroux) writes on Alternet about the ease with which we accept de facto martial law in the name of security as most recently illustrated in Boston in … MORE ►►

The Media Education Foundation has launched its first crowdfunding campaign via Kickstarter to help finish our documentary film WHITE LIKE ME, a collaboration with renowned anti-racist educator and activist Tim Wise. MEF is eager to reach out … MORE ►►

Eric Manirakiza, Managing Director of African Public Radio (Radio Publique Africaine - RPA) and Correspondent for Voice of America, Burundi, is touring the US in an urgent appeal for help. The African nation of Burundi is the … MORE ►►

Jo Comerford, the Executive Director of the National Priorities Project, writing for Nation of Change explains that the real painful consequences of sequestration is not flight delays: Over all, sequestration requires $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts in 2013. … MORE ►►

Over a week has lapsed since two bombs placed at the feet of a cheering crowd in Boston detonated, killing three, maiming two-hundred nineteen and traumatizing multitudes. The impacts were experienced far and wide, due in large … MORE ►►

In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, Tim Wise (On White Privilege) writes about the double standards we employ when speculating about motives and suspects: As the nation weeps for the victims of the horrific bombing … MORE ►►

Dave Zirin (Not Just A Game and Race, Power & American Sports) posted in The Nation this morning his reaction to the Boston Marathon bombings .  Here is the piece in it's entirety: “If you are losing faith … MORE ►►

President Obama's choice to head the EPA, Gina McCarthy, went before the Senate last week to present her credentials.  However, she virtually disappeared in the smog of a global warming debate. It is remarkable that the divisions … MORE ►►

A weekly compendium of links to the vanguard thinkers who have worked with MEF analyzing media culture over the years.  Find out what they are thinking and what they are doing these days by checking here regularly. … MORE ►►

There are predators stalking your children in their schools, in your homes and just about everywhere kids go.  They are well organized and heavily funded and they are sanctioned by law to lure children to succumb and … MORE ►►

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has died, but her legacy of the rise of corporate influence and Neo-Liberalism survives her. Stuart Hall spoke with MEF Executive Director Sut Jhally last summer about the updated reissue of … MORE ►►

Are we consuming the media or is it being fed to us?  Are we choosing from a smorgasbord of choices or are we just deluded into thinking that and, instead, scarfing up disguised offal designed to look … MORE ►►

The coach of the Rutgers basketball team, Mike Rice was fired today for "a chronic and pervasive pattern of disturbing behavior". The "disturbing behavior" was graphically revealed in a viral video that was picked up by ESPN. … MORE ►►

A weekly compendium of links to the vanguard thinkers who have worked with MEF analyzing media culture over the years.  Find out what they are thinking and what they are doing these days by checking here regularly. … MORE ►►

Alaskan Republican Congressman Don Young felt comfortable enough to use the term "wetbacks" in a recent interview and has since tried to walk it back.  His qualified apology was centered upon the fact that it was a … MORE ►►

Tonight the Florida Gulf Coast University Eagles will see if they can extend their place in N.C.A.A. basketball history by beating the highly favored Florida Gators, further demolishing bracket predictions and continuing to win … MORE ►►

The Internet has been trumpeted for facilitating the Arab Spring and vilified for making stars of kittens -- alternately praised and dismissed as either a manifestation of true democracy or a mass distraction that's dumbing democracy down. … MORE ►►

The article in GQ opens this way: In the past few years, I've bought eighty-one leather jackets. Dozens of boots and leather gloves. I've purchased pants that cost $5,000. I own a $22,000 coat. This winter I took a … MORE ►►

What accounts for the incremental but progressive shift in American attitudes on LGBT rights?  Not long ago, invoking the "gay agenda" or same-sex marriage was used as an election wedge issue that effectively pushed religious conservatives to … MORE ►►

A weekly compendium of links to the vanguard thinkers who have worked with MEF analyzing media culture over the years.  Find out what they are thinking and what they are doing these days by checking here regularly. … MORE ►►

In Part 2 of his interview with MEF's Jeremy Earp, author and cultural critic Jackson Katz talked about the Steubenville rape case, and the need for gender violence prevention programs that speak directly to young men. Katz, a … MORE ►►

President Obama has arrived in Israel for the start of a carefully choreographed four-day trip to the Middle East guaranteed not to rile the status quo. Based on the flurry of anodyne advanced press briefings and statements … MORE ►►

This past Sunday in Steubenville, Ohio, high school football stars Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond were convicted of raping an intoxicated and barely conscious 16-year-old girl. Author and cultural critic Jackson Katz talked about the implications … MORE ►►

MEF offers a range of films suitable for campus screenings, classroom presentations, and community events during Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) in April. While these films vary in approach and focus, they all explore the deeply contradictory … MORE ►►

CNN has fallen under heavy criticism for its coverage of the Steubenville rape case verdict on Sunday. In this report broadcast immediately after the two high school football players were declared guilty of raping a barely conscious … MORE ►►

In 2006, just three years after the US invasion of Iraq, MEF released a documentary called Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire. The film detailed how the Bush administration manipulated intelligence and brazenly lied to … MORE ►►

A decade after the US invasion of Iraq, there is a growing consensus that the Iraq war was a colossal and costly failure, paid for with the lives of millions of innocent Iraqi civilians, and thousands of … MORE ►►

For media critic Norman Solomon, the 10th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq is a reminder of just how much we seem to have forgotten. Solomon, who was featured in the MEF film War Made Easy, … MORE ►►

Jackson Katz argues that the conviction of two high school football players yesterday for raping a 16-year-old girl is about more than just these two young men and football culture. Reacting to the verdict in The New … MORE ►►

Frequent MEF collaborator Noam Chomsky explains that despite the myth of a fruitful free market advanced by many in DC, most of our most significant industries rely on public investment disguised as defense spending. We built that. … MORE ►►

Ten years ago, March 19, 2003, President George W. Bush addressed the American people and the world at large. Blinking into the camera, he soberly read these scripted lines: "My fellow citizens, at this hour ... American and coalition forces … MORE ►►

In recent arguments over the validity of the Voting Rights Act, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia revealed his bias. “Whenever a society adopts racial entitlements," Scalia said, "it is very difficult to get out of them through … MORE ►►

"Get over it ... it's just a bit." That's been the common response to people who took offense to Seth MacFarlane's "We Saw Your Boobs" song-and-dance routine at the 85th Academy Awards. Why get exercised over a little … MORE ►►

The Congressionally imposed economic doomsday device known as Sequestration is coming. It was meant to inspire in the Congress a sense of urgency … to compel them to craft policy that would reduce the national debt.  Stupid? That's … MORE ►►

In a recent column in The Nation about the Oscar Pistorius murder case, Jessica Valenti reminds us that one of the gravest threats to women is the patriarchal assumption that they need to be protected by men. … MORE ►►

MEF is now distributing a powerful documentary about the rise of hookup culture on college campuses. Supplementing the voices of students with analysis from experts and health professionals, Spitting Game asks whether hookup culture is offering young … MORE ►►

MEF's newly released film Latinos Beyond Reel is already making waves. A clip from the documentary went viral when Sunday night's Academy Awards ceremony failed to include renowned Latina actress Lupe Ontiveros in its "In Memorium" tribute. … MORE ►►

It's no doubt a step forward that two documentaries critical of Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian territory were nominated for Academy Awards this year. The question is whether the two films will have any corrective effect at … MORE ►►

The fact that last night's Oscar for best documentary went to the least political film in the category may have been entirely predictable, but that didn't make the choice any less disappointing. The nominees included a film … MORE ►►

As area campuses continue to struggle with the reality of sexual assault, UMass Communication Professors Lynn Phillips and Sut Jhally will present the MEF film Flirting with Danger: Power and Choice in Heterosexual Relationships at UMass-Amherst on … MORE ►►

To get a better handle on the the mounting controversy surrounding President Obama's upcoming decision on the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline project, check out this clip from a new MEF video featuring the Nation's Michael T. Klare. … MORE ►►

Jeremy Earp, Director of Production at MEF, sat down with UMass Communication Professor and MEF Executive Director Sut Jhally to talk about the interplay between violence, race, and cultural politics in Quentin Tarantino’s Oscar-nominated film Django … MORE ►►

Jeremy Earp, Director of Production at MEF, sat down with UMass Communication Professor and MEF Executive Director Sut Jhally to talk about the interplay between violence, race, and cultural politics in Quentin Tarantino’s Oscar-nominated film Django … MORE ►►

The Grio's Joy-Ann Reid nails the gun industry's ongoing effort to keep gun sales alive by whipping up fear and loathing. Focusing on NRA frontman Wayne LaPierre's latest incendiary call for law-abiding citizens to arm themselves against … MORE ►►

The news is crackling about a $50 million diamond heist in Brussels.  Biggest ever!  MEF's Sut Jhally explains the false value of diamonds to Morgan Spurlock in this clip from Spurlock's film, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold. The … MORE ►►

President's Day seems like as good a day as any to reflect on the office of the presidency, and one of the most insightful reflections around is Jackson Katz's new book about presidential masculinity. Katz is a … MORE ►►

In an effort to raise awareness about Latino media stereotypes, MEF will be working throughout the month of March to encourage educators, student groups, and special events programmers across the country to organize and host campus screenings … MORE ►►

Davey D interviews award-winning filmmaker and MEF collaborator Byron Hurt (Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes) about his newest film Soul Food Junkies. Hurt's deeply personal documentary offers a fascinating exploration of the soul food tradition, its … MORE ►►

In a recent column in The New York Times, Joe Nocera weighs in on the notoriously convoluted subject of violent media effects. He cites "decades of solid research" that shows that watching violence "makes kids feel they … MORE ►►

This past August, MEF executive director Sut Jhally sat down with renowned cultural studies theorist Stuart Hall at his home in London to discuss his classic work Policing the Crisis. The book, which contains essays by Hall, … MORE ►►

In a recent TEDx Talk, author and acclaimed anti-violence educator Jackson Katz made a compelling case for confronting violence against women as a men's issue. Katz, creator of MEF's Tough Guise, is a pioneer in gender violence … MORE ►►

As we find ourselves yet again in the middle of an endless, and endlessly confusing, feedback loop of commentary about the effects of media violence in the wake of the Sandy Hook tragedy, we would do well … MORE ►►