Rory O'Connor

Award-winning author, journalist and filmmaker Rory O'Connor's work centers on the nexus of media and politics. President and CEO of the independent media firm Globalvision, and Board Chair of the affiliated non-profit The Global Center, O'Connor is the author of Shock Jocks: Hate Speech & Talk Radio (AlterNet Books, 2008); co-author of Nukespeak: The Selling of Nuclear Technology in America (Sierra Club Books, Second Edition 2011) and author of the forthcoming Word of Mouse (City Lights 2012.) Fun Fact: As a pop music writer in an earlier life, Rory was ranked as the "second worst rock critic of all-time" in the Rolling Stone Book of Rock Lists, trailing only the hated Albert Goldman...

Culture

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Impact

Phase Out Nuclear Power to Avoid Another Disaster