The War Against Terrorism Media Links

"World War III is a guerrilla information war, with no division between military and civilian participation." -Marshall McLuhan

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• FAIR: Media Beat
• FAIR: Corporate Ownership
• 2001/06/: FAIR: Interlocking Directorates
• 1997/11/: FAIR: The Global Media Giants - The nine firms that dominate the world
• NowFoundation: Who Controls the Media?
• Liberal Slant: Media Ownership
• CJR: Columbia Journalism Review
• CJR: Who Owns What
• MTA: Podvin on the Media
• MTA: Why the Media Lies (Media Ownership)
• Rocky Mountain media Watch
• PBS: Media Giants
• TheNation: The 'Right' Books and Big Ideas
• Mockingbird - The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA
• Mockingbird - The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA
• Media Whores Online
• Project Censored 0
• Project Censored 1
• Index on Censorship 0
• Index on Censorship 1
• Media Concentration
• Media Ownership
• Canadian Media Ownership
• UK Media Ownership
• 2002/07/: CBC: Media Ownership in Canada
• 2003/02/05: Slate: The Varieties of Media Bias, Part 1
• 2003/02/12: Slate: The Varieties of Media Bias, Part 2
• 2003/05/08: QQ: Alternative Media Censorship: Sponsored By CIA's Ford Foundation?
• Media Reform Information Center
• 2005/11/16: ProjectCensored: Major Media - Ownership and Governance
• 2005/12/30: Rense: Only 5 Corporations Now Control Majority Of US Media
• SBM: Stop Big Media
• --Related News--
• 2008/12/23: PewRC: Internet Overtakes Newspapers As News Source
• 2008/12/27: Guardian(UK): Web overtakes newspapers as source of news in US survey
  [...] For the first time, more Americans are getting their news online than from traditional ink and paper, although the popularity of television still eclipses all other forms of media.
• 2008/12/20: LFPress: Not if, but how, we'll deliver news -- The future of newspapers, not news, is unclear
• 2008/12/14: WCI: On the economics of the MSM print media
• 2008/12/08: Guardian(UK): Tribune Company files for bankruptcy
• 2008/12/09: Guardian(UK): Chicago [Tribune] media powerhouse faces bankruptcy
• 2008/12/01: CPJ: Annual Prison Census -- Journalists in prison
• 2008/12/02: PeakEnergy: Media Studies
• 2008/11/24: Tyee: Am I Paranoid? Issues I fight for never seem to be 'news.' Wonder why?
• 2008/11/17: at-Largely: CBS, the disgrace...
• 2008/11/17: AngryBear: Media bias and impressions
• 2008/11/15: ThinkP: If it’s Sunday, it’s still conservative
• 2008/10/31: CCurrents: A Case Study Of Power And Media: The Washington Post
  Last week's unilateral attack on Syria and the subsequent coverage of the events by the mainstream US media give us an impeccable illustration of the prevailing ideologies that dictate how news is received, composed, and understood by respectable journalists and reporters. In fact, considering all of the variables surrounding the recent US attack, this single case could not be a more perfect example to evaluate for the sake of gaining a clear understanding not only of the rationale behind US foreign policy, but the ideological constraints that shackle our "free" press.
• 2008/10/30: CBC: National Post axes weekday edition in Manitoba, Saskatchewan
• 2008/10/28: PhysOrg: Christian Science Monitor to end daily publication
  The Christian Science Monitor said Tuesday it will become the first national newspaper to drop its daily print edition and focus on publishing online, succumbing to the financial pressure squeezing its industry harder than ever.
• 2008/10/25: Straight: http://www.straight.com/article-167823/canwest-global-communications-corp-now-penny-stock
• 2008/10/28: OLJ: Coordinated media
• 2008/10/15: ZNet: Why journalists stay silent
• 2008/10/08: CCurrents: A Futile Bailout As Darkness Falls On America
  America has become a pretty discouraging place. Americans, for the most part, will never know what happened to them, because they no longer have a free and responsible press. They have Big Brother’s press.
• 2008/09/02: OLJ: Living in a lying nation
• 2008/08/30: PhysOrg: Soft economy speeds newspaper decline, job cuts
  The newspaper industry's downward spiral is accelerating as the weak U.S. economy depresses already-tumbling advertising revenue and forces more rounds of job cuts and other trims.
• 2008/08/20: AntiWar: The Narrative Versus the News -- Journalism in the age of perpetual war
• 2008/08/07: Guardian(UK): Why TV news in the US is utter rubbish
  It's not just that world events are ignored in favour of celebrity gossip. News anchors skew the facts to provoke debate
• 2008/08/04: CCurrents: "Making News" And The Corporate Media In America
• 2008/07/24: CJR: Worst. Years. Ever. Five other terrible years in modern newspaper history
• 2008/07/21: TruthDig: Bad Days for Newsrooms -- and Democracy
• 2008/07/21: PEJ: The Changing Newsroom - Meet the American daily newspaper of 2008.
  It has fewer pages than three years ago, the paper stock is thinner, and the stories are shorter. There is less foreign and national news, less space devoted to science, the arts, features and a range of specialized subjects. Business coverage is either packaged in an increasingly thin stand-alone section or collapsed into another part of the paper. The crossword puzzle has shrunk, the TV listings and stock tables may have disappeared, but coverage of some local issues has strengthened and investigative reporting remains highly valued.
• 2008/07/07: NYT: The Media Equation - When Fox News Is the Story
• 2008/06/29: Guardian(UK): Besieged US newspaper journalists face final deadline
  In newsrooms across America scores of writers and editors are being laid off as publishers reel from the impact of the internet.
• 2008/06/27: AntiWar: The Yellow Press
• 2008/06/23: Yahoo: Papers Facing Worst Year for Ad Revenue
• 2008/06/10: SST: Is "the press" really free?
• 2008/05/26: LANR: Ever wonder why media coverage of war zones sucks?
• 2006//: WikiLeaks: US Army Center for Lessons Learned: Media is the Battlefield (2006)
  Summary
  US Army Center for Lessons Learned report "Media is the Battlefield: Tactics, Techniques and Procedures", 89 pages written at the For Official Use Only level and dated Oct 2006.

  "In 2006, the media is indeed part of the battlefield, and commanders must look at it that way. War in the 21st century is certainly fought in the fourth dimension. All commanders, leaders, and Soldiers must understand that and train for that fight.
  Media operations are vital components of the information operations fight. This newsletter explores the role media operations play on the modern battlefield, enumerating battle-tested and proven public affairs training guidance tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP)."

• 2008/05/23: PhysOrg: Probing question: Are print newspapers dying?
• 2008/05/19: ThinkP: Study finds Pentagon benefited from U.S. media 'embed' program in Iraq
• 2008/05/19: WaPo: Feud Fuels Bill O'Reilly's Blasts at GE
  Bill O'Reilly, the Fox News star, is mounting an extraordinary televised assault on the chief executive of General Electric, calling him a "pinhead" and a "despicable human being" who bears responsibility for the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq. On the surface, O'Reilly's charges revolve around GE's history of doing business with Iran. But the attacks grow out of an increasingly bitter feud between O'Reilly and the company's high-profile subsidiary, NBC, one that has triggered back-channel discussions involving News Corp. owner Rupert Murdoch, Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes, NBC chief executive Jeff Zucker and General Electric's CEO, Jeffrey Immelt. Ailes called Zucker on his cellphone last summer, clearly agitated over a slam against him by MSNBC host Keith Olbermann. According to sources familiar with the conversation, Ailes warned that if Olbermann didn't stop such attacks against Fox, he would unleash O'Reilly against NBC and would use the New York Post as well. Both Fox and the Post are owned by Murdoch, who complained about Olbermann's conduct in separate calls to Zucker and Immelt.
• 2008/05/15: McClatchyDC: Propaganda and the media
• 2008/05/08: NakedCapitalism: Blogging, the Cathedral and the Bazaar
• 2008/05/07: CanWest: Decline of the media dinosaurs
• 2008/05/02: EUO: Media content, concentration and pluralism in Europe in the digital age
• 2008/04/29: FreedomHouse: Press Freedom Losses Outnumber Gains Two to One in 2007
• 2008/04/28: ThinkP: Conservatives Increasingly Tuned Out Everything Except Fox News Between 1998-2006
• 2008/04/22: FAIR: Pentagon Pundits - Media facilitate Iraq propaganda effort
• 2008/04/16: PhysOrg: Study finds increased fragmentation of TV news audiences along party lines
• 2008/04/10: CCurrents: BBC: Imperial Tool
• 2008/03/28: E&P: NAA Reveals Biggest Ad Revenue Plunge in More Than 50 Years
  The newspaper industry has experienced the worst drop in advertising revenue in more than 50 years. According to new data released by the Newspaper Association of America, total print advertising revenue in 2007 plunged 9.4% to $42 billion compared to 2006 -- the most severe percent decline since the association started measuring advertising expenditures in 1950. The drop-off points to an economic slowdown on top of the secular challenges faced by the industry. The second worst decline in advertising revenue occurred in 2001 when it fell 9.0%. Total advertising revenue in 2007 -- including online revenue -- decreased 7.9% to $45.3 billion compared to the prior year.
• 2008/03/21: AntiWar: For God's Sake, Don't Mention the War! How the Beltway Debates an Issue [Werther]
• 2008/03/06: LRB: Riots, Terrorism etc [Book Review] _Flat Earth News_ by Nick Davies
• 2008/02/18: HuffPo: Say What You Will (Requiem for a TV News Career)
• 2008/02/18: al Jazeera: Arab media code 'risk to freedom'
  Al Jazeera has said a code adopted by Arab states to govern satellite broadcasting could shackle freedom of expression. Arab information ministers meeting on Tuesday in Cairo endorsed the charter, which allows host countries to annul or suspend the licence of any broadcaster found in violation of the rules it sets. The Cairo document stipulates that satellite channels "should not damage social harmony, national unity, public order or traditional values". It says that programming should also "conform with the religious and ethical values of Arab society and take account of its family structure".
• 2008/02/10: CDreams: There's Nothing Mainstream About the Corporate Media
• 2008/01/15: CBC: CRTC imposes cross-media ownership restrictions
  The CRTC has brought in new regulations to restrict cross-media ownership as a way of ensuring a diversity of editorial voices in the same market. The broadcast regulator said on Tuesday that, in future, a person or entity will be permitted to control only two of the three types of media outlets -- radio, TV, or newspapers -- in a single market.
• NNN: U.S. Influence on Swedish Media
• 2008/01/09: CCurrents: Reviewing David Edwards And David Cromwell's "Guardians Of Power"
• 2007/12/19: ThinkP: CSPAN?s think tank coverage is 51% right wing [18% left & 31% centrist, ambidextrous 0]
• 2007/12/12: TMoS: How the Right Co-opted Canada's Media
• 2007/12/12: Independent(UK): Legal Opinion: Publishers jailed for printing uncomfortable truths
  Editors who publish investigative stories can end up behind bars. Robert Verkaik, Law Editor, looks at how governments use defamation laws to censor the news [...] around the world, 146 journalists, writers, human rights and activists have been imprisoned under criminal defamation laws in the last two years. Today, the human rights group Article 19 has published a report showing that out of 168 countries investigated, 158 retain criminal defamation offences which attract draconian punishments. One hundred and thirteen of the countries reviewed have special laws offering special protection to the most powerful and privileged figures in public life. Only 10 countries have abolished criminal defamation offences and a further nine have done away with imprisonment as a penalty for defamation
• 2007/12/10: BBC: World views on free press mixed
  World opinion is divided on the importance of having a free press, according to a poll conducted for the BBC World Service. Of those interviewed, 56% thought that freedom of the press was very important to ensure a free society. But 40% said it was more important to maintain social harmony and peace, even if it meant curbing the press's freedom to report news truthfully. Pollsters interviewed 11,344 people in 14 countries for the survey
• 2007/11/29: Guardian(UK): Not dead yet: the newspaper in the days of digital anarchy
• 2007/11/28: BoomanTrib: Conservative Bias in the News
• 2007/11/13: Tyee: Marc Edge on 'Asper Nation' - His new book traces 'dangerous' rise of CanWest Global
• 2007/10/30: CDreams: CSM: War Protests: Why No Coverage?
• 2007/10/26: AlterNet: Where Does the Right-Wing End and the Media Begin?
• 2007/10/22: ThinkP: Pentagon Co-opted Independent Military Newspaper [Stars & Stripes] For PR Campaign Pushing Bush's War Policies
• 2007/10/18: NYT: Plan Would Ease Limits on Media Owners
• 2007/09/13: MediaMatters: Wash. Post media critic Kurtz said Fox News is "entitled" to be a Bush "cheerleader" and "misinform[] our society"
  Summary: On Glenn Beck, Howard Kurtz said that Keith Olbermann has described Fox News as a channel that "poses as a news organization and puts out dangerous misinformation [and] is a cheerleader for the Bush administration, that it is misinforming our society." Kurtz added: "But you know what? They're entitled to do that."
• 2007/09/12: MediaMatters: Black and White and Re(a)d All Over: The Conservative Advantage in Syndicated Op-Ed Columns
• 2007/08/28: CDreams: TowardFreedom: Who Owns the Media and How the People Can Take It Back
• 2007/08/20: MediaChannel: The L.A. Times tells its readers: "Shut up"
• 2007/08/16: Slate: Reign of Error - The average newspaper corrects very few of its factual errors, says professor
• 2007/08/16: CarsonsPost: Newspapers hold everyone to account but themselves
• 2007/07/31: CTV: Canadians choosing Internet over radio, TV
  Canadians appear to be slowly switching off conventional broadcast media and turning on to the Internet, says a new report on broadcasting. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission's annual report on the state of the industry shows that Canadians have more choices in both television and radio media than ever before, but are watching and listening less. But more and more are accessing the Internet, either through their computers or on any number of devices, from cellphones to BlackBerrys. And advertisers have noticed. Advertising revenues on the Internet in Canada totalled $1 billion in 2006, says the federal regulator, as opposed to $562 million the previous year
• 2007/07/29: PRWatch: Newspaper Industry Death Watch
• 2007/07/28: PhysOrg: Papers Losing Real Estate Ads to Online
• 2007/07/28: AntiWar: A Blurry Line Between Propaganda and News
• 2007/07/23: NYRB: Goodbye to Newspapers? [Two Book Reviews]
  _When the Press Fails: Political Power and the New Media from Iraq to Katrina_ by W. Lance Bennett, Regina G. Lawrence, and Steven Livingston
  _American Carnival: Journalism Under Siege in an Age of New Media_ by Neil Henry
• 2007/07/13: ZMag: America's Parochial Press: Examining English-Language Media at Home and Abroad
• 2007/07/03: Tyee: How Black and Asper Plotted to Control Canadian News Biz
• 2007/06/22: HuffPo: Right-Wing Radio Freak Out
• 2007/06/22: HuffPo: Report Revealing Bias of Talk Radio Touches Nerve on the Right
• 2007/06/05: HuffPo: Twilight for the Curmudgeons
• 2007/05/29: SF Gate: The decline of news
• 2007/05/21: MediaChannel: Searching For The New "Propaganda Model"
  ...one mainstream corporate journalist there... explained the "model's focus on the filters" that much news has to pass through:
  Stripped down for purposes of, as Chomsky would say, typical media "concision," they are:
  ownership interests, advertiser concerns, the nature of journalists' sources, flak (or negative feedback) and ideology.
• 2007/04/30: MediaChannel: A Media Scandal A Day Keeps The Ratings In Play - Media Priorities Assure that Real Crises Will Not Be Covered - "our media remains fixated on misdemeanors while they ignore felonies"
• 2007/04/30: Yahoo: Newspaper Circulation Falls 2.1 Percent
• 2007/03/28: HuffPo: Poll Finds Newspaper Editors Overwhelmingly Optimistic About The Future Of Print
• 2007/03/29: HuffPo: Bush, Rove Joke About White House Felonies. Reporters Laugh.
• 2007/02/22: HuffPo: The Decline of US Media: Fox News Leads Race to the Bottom
• 2007/01/21: RawStory: Rep. believes Democratic media reform bill may prevent possible 'fascist' takeover of US media
  Rep. Hinchey: New bill would break up media monopolies and restore fairness doctrine - Warns media reform critical to prevent 'end of democratic republic'
• 2007/01/16: MediaChannel: What Next For Media Reform?
• 2006/12/30: Rabble: Advertisers make CanWest Global news go silent
  Do media conglomerates holding monopoly powers in many regions of the country have any public responsibility to ensure their reporters are reasonably free to report important news to the communities they serve?
• 2006/11/21: CDReams: DaytonaBeachNews-Journal: Al-Jazeera in the No-Fluff Zone of Eye-Opening Network News
• 2006/11/16: CDreams: Media Ownership Takes On a Nightmarish Hue
• 2006/11/07: DefTech: Army to Fake the News
• 2006/09/15: SBM: FCC Buries Report Showing Local Owners Do More Local News
• 2006/09/14: THP: FCC Report Says Media Consolidation Harms News Coverage - FCC Then Orders Report Destroyed
• 2006/09/10: Xinhuanet: Xinhua issues Measures for Administering the Release of News and Information in China by Foreign News Agencies
• 2006/08/28: AP: Gore Lashes Out at Media Consolidation
  "Democracy is under attack," Gore told an audience at the Edinburgh International Television Festival. "Democracy as a system for self-governance is facing more serious challenges now than it has faced for a long time.
  "Democracy is a conversation, and the most important role of the media is to facilitate that conversation of democracy. Now the conversation is more controlled, it is more centralized."
  He said that in many countries, media control was being consolidated in the hands of a few businesspeople or politicians.
  Gore said in Italy much of the media is owned by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. In Russia, President Vladimir Putin has stifled dissent on television, and in South Africa, Gore said, dissent "is disappearing, and free expression is under attack."
  In the United States "the only thing that matters in American politics now is having enough money to put 30-second commercials on the air often enough to convince the voters to elect you or re-elect you," he said. "The person who has the most money to run the most ads usually wins."
• 2006/08/15: WaPo: FCC Queries TV Stations On Video News Releases
• 2006/06/22: THP: From the Folks Who Are Giving Away Your Internet, More Media Concentration
• 2006/06/21: ICH: It's Time to break up the Media
  Dismantling America's media monopoly should be a central part of any progressive political platform. Democracy is impossible where information can be controlled by a few powerful corporations that shape the narrative to suit their own self-serving objectives. There must be unrestricted access to the facts that we need to make informed decisions about the issues that affect our lives and the future of the country. By increasing funding for independent and public media and by applying strict regulations to the size and influence of the media giants, we can resuscitate the "marketplace of ideas" and create an environment where divergent points of view can flourish. This will ignite greater citizen involvement and fuel the national debate.
• 2006/06/15: Nation: The National Entertainment State
• 2006/06/05: OpEdNews: The Media’s Bloody Footprints
• 2006/06/01: UTGG: Press corrupted by fake news, America yawns
• 2006/05/26: MediaMatters: The defining issue of our time is the media
• 2006/05/07: THP: The Media Isn't Supposed to be Neutral
• 2006/02/18: Consortium: An Upside-Down Media
  The gravest indictment of the American news media is that George W. Bush has gutted the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Geneva Conventions and the United Nations Charter -- yet this extraordinary story does not lead the nation’s newspapers and the evening news every day.
• 2006/02/09: Consortium: The Democrats' Tiny Megaphone
• 2006/01/27: PBDN: Broadcaster says serious news at risk
  "Truth no longer matters in the context of politics and, sadly, in the context of cable news," said Aaron Brown...
• 2006/01/25: THP: The Triangle: Matthews, Moore, Murtha, and the Media
• 2006/01/05: ZMag: Guardians of Power
• 2006/01/03: Eureka: New study links reputation to media bias
• 2005/12/23: MediaMatters: Chris Matthews: 2005's Misinformer of the Year
• 2005/11/29: PRWatch: That Old Canard Liberal Bias
• 2005/11/26: CPunch: Excluding Voices That Save Lives - Junk Television
• 2005/11/24: Guardian(UK): Murdoch predicts gloomy future for press
• 2005/11/20: THP: The Main Street Strategy For Selling Knight-Ridder
• 2005/11/19: CPunch: The Future of the Daily Press
• 2005/11/18: THP: The Media Monster That's Eating the Dems
  It may be decades before we see a single corporation controlling the entire flow of information, but we are certainly on that path. In the interim, the consolidation has already had a severe impact on the quality of news.
• 2005/07/12: THP: The Indisputable Media Bias
• 2005/06/27: MediaChannel: Big Media Interlocks with Corporate America
  A research team at Sonoma State University has recently finished conducting a network analysis of the boards of directors of the ten big media organizations in the US. The team determined that only 118 people comprise the membership on the boards of director of the ten big media giants.
• 2005/06/24: CDreams: Big Media Interlocks with Corporate America
• 2002/03/21: WFC: Chip off the old Brock - Former GOP hatchet man David Brock goes from propaganda to penitence
• FAIR: Fear & Favor 2000: How Power Shapes the News
• FAIR: Fear & Favor 2001: How Power Shapes the News
• Literary Lynching by Dorothy Bryant
• 2002/04/01: AlterNet: 18 Tales of Media Censorship
• 2002/04/08: Kuro5hin: Burning a Book Before It's Printed
• 2002/04/11: Rabble: Media Concentration Scarier than Editorial Control
• 2002/04/19: OJR: The Future of News - The Third Wave of Online Journalism
• 2002/04/16: OJR: Censorship Wins Out
• 2002/04/24: Cryptome: U.S. Media Interests: Champions of Profit, Propaganda and Puffery
• 2002/04/26: TENC: How the Associated Press (AP) gutted its own scoop on the Venezuelan coup d'etat
• 2000/01/31: ZNet: (tutorial) Finding and Fighting Everyday Lies
• 2002/04/26: PBS: Massive Media
• 2002/04/29: FF: Biotech Bias on the Editorial and Opinion Pages of Major United States Newspapers and News Magazines
• 2002/05/03: IMC: Interesting Media Stuff - Things to know about the media, in this information war, in our information age
• 2002/05/09: CPunch: American Mainstream Media: Institutionalized Subjectivity
• 2002/05/: MR: Upton Sinclair and the Contradictions of Capitalist Journalism
• 2001/01/30: Tom Paine: Scientists Flacking for Corporations
• 2002/05/: FAIR: Who's On the News? [in ABC, CBS & NBC - 92% white, 85% male and, where party affiliation was identifiable, 75% Republican]
• Salon: (a series) The Media Borg wants you
• 2002/06/16: CDreams: The Hill: Congress Can No Longer Ignore Corporate Control of the Media
• 2002/06/: FAIR: Who's On the News? Study shows network news sources skew white, male & elite
• NowFoundation: Who Controls the Media?
• 2002/06/27: AlterNet: The Mix Is the Message #3: A Tale of Two Books
• 2002/06/09: The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press: Public's News Habits Little Changed by September 11 - Americans Lack Background to Follow International New
• 2002/07/10: BBC: British TV 'ignores' developing world
• 2002/07/11: CDreams: Media Beat: Renouncing Sins Against the Corporate Faith
• 2002/07/11: CDreams: Journalists Thrown 'Into the Buzzsaw'
• 2002/07/24: AlterNet: 20/20 Hindsight
• 2002/08/12: Guardian(UK): The other public service - US and UK journalists have rather different views of their roles in the aftermath of a terrorist attack
• 2002/08/28: SFBG: Project Censored presents the 10 big stories the mainstream news media ignored in 2001.
• 2002/09/03: IHT: Washington Post: The fluff returns to U.S. media Nearly a year after broad predictions that the news business would be permanently transformed by the events of last Sept. 11, the media world has largely returned to business as usual.
• 2002/09/09: Guardian(UK): A war of words
• 2002/09/12: CDreams: SO: Gore: Democracy Under Media Siege
• 2002/09/20: WSWS: What really happened to the League of Nations?
• 2002/09/29: YT: "Bafflegab: Separating the message from the delivery infrastructure"
• 2002/09/30: FAIR: Fox Hunting Trumps Peace Activism at Washington Post & New York Times
• 2002/10/08: CPunch: America is Lost in a Hobbesian Swirl of Self-Interest - Brainwashing in the United States
• 2002/10/15: CDreams: Toronto Star: Tail Wags the Dog, Rolls It Over - U.S. Media March to Beat of White House War Drum
• 2002/10/24: CPunch: A Free Press, But for Whom?
• 2002/10/30: Tom Paine: Chickenhearted Media 101: Harvard Students And Alums Uncover Bush Scandal
  "But it is a sad state of affairs for the mainstream papers. It seems if a story's not easily spoon-fed, it isn't taken up. Or if a story has dangerous implications, it isn't easily taken up."
• 2002/11/: CJR: Strings Attached - Adventures in Grant-Funded Journalism
• 2002/11/17: MSNBC: Musical Chairs
  The untold secret of the White House briefings is this: reporters never ask a question that they really want to know the answer to. The reason is that if you get a real answer rather than spin, you’ll have to share it with the whole press corps. But, mostly, because you’ll never get a real answer.
• 2002/11/19: Guardian(UK): This perfect system
• 2002/11/22: WSWS: Australian ABC falls into line on Bali bombing
• 2002/11/29: Asia Times: China hidden by media fog
• 2002/11/30: CDreams: If Commercial Radio Actually Trafficked in News
• 2002/12/07: CPunch: How Alternative is Alternet? Information Prozac
• 2002/12/09: MemoryHole: U.N. Workers Petition Israel: Stop "Beating and Killing" Us
• 2002/12/12: CDreams: Media Beat: Decoding Some Top Buzz Words of 2002
• 2002/12/18: NarcoNews: AP's One-Sided Venezuela Coverage
• 2002/12/19: Tom Paine: Why I Don't Watch Mainstream News - Student Activist Bemoans Dumbed-Down Media
• 2002/12/27: CDreams: Media Beat: Media Year 2002, R.I.P.
• 2002/12/21: ZMag: ITN Declares War On Iraq
• 2002/12/: ZMag: Media Moments
• 2003/01/03: AlterNet: Announcing the 2002 P.U.-litzer Prizes
• 2003/01/10: CHEIT: Elsevier's Vanishing Act - To the dismay of scholars, the publishing giant quietly purges articles from its database
• 2003/01/18: CDreams: Media Beat: Mixed Messages Call for Healthy Skepticism
• 2003/01/21: ZMag: From The Streets Into The Studio
• 2003/01/22: Eureka: Unbalanced newspaper coverage of homicide
• 2003/01/30: CPunch: Free Press? "There's No Damn Thing" Flopping Through the Money Shot
• 2003/02/05: TPH: Reporters Sue Fox TV-Inside Story
• 2003/02/14: ZMag: Day of Global Action for Peace - Mainstream media stand exposed
• 2003/02/21: CPunch: Peretz to Bush: Bomb Iraq - You Call This Daring?
• 2003/02/28: AlterNet: Media Coverage: A View from the Ground
• 2003/03/05: TomPaine: Embed With The Pentagon - When You're Part Of The Team You're No Longer Objective
• 2003/03/03: APJ: "Burying the Lede" How American journalists censor themselves in the Corporate Era
• 2003/03/23: Times(UK): Win or lose, there's a TV channel there for you [Survey of 8 TV channel's biases]
• 2003/03/24: ZMag: All The Indicators Are Already Red - BBC, ITN, Independent, Guardian: Deceit In The Service Of Power
• 2003/03/27: Guardian(UK): Television agendas shape images of war
  Broadcasting US focuses on patriotism, Arabs see horrors, British have eyes on west and Iraq favours Saddam
• 2003/04/04: ZMag: Embeds in Washington
• 2003/07/18: CDreams: PopMatters: No Question: The Media Is Right
• 2003/08/17: Observer(UK): Lessons in how to lie about Iraq
  The problem is not propaganda but the relentless control of the kind of things we think about
• 2003/10/02: TruthOut: Study Finds Direct Link Between Misinformation and Public Misconception
• 2004/03/31: CDreams: Seattle Times: The Troubling Arc of Media Concentration
• 2004/06/02: MC: One Year On, Big Media More Willing To Cover Up Than Change
• 2004/07/09: Guardian(UK): Half of US shuns literature
• -- Books --
• (book) [Amazon] The Media Monopoly : With a New Preface on the Internet and Telecommunications Cartels by Ben H. Bagdikian
• (book) [Amazon] Censored 2001 : 25 Years of Censored News and the Top Censored Stories of the Year by Peter Phillips, Noam Chomsky (Introduction), Tom Tomorrow (Illustrations)
• (book) [Amazon] Manufacturing Consent : The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
• (book) [Amazon] Bias by Bernard Goldberg
• LRB: Let's talk class again (review of Bias)
• (book) [Amazon] Channels of Propaganda by J. Michael Sproule, Warren Lewis (Editor)
• (book) [Amazon] Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative by David Brock
• (book) [Amazon] The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media: Decoding Spin and Lies in Mainstream News by Norman Solomon, Tom Tomorrow (Illustrator), Jonathan Kozol (Introduction)
• (book) [Amazon] Into the Buzzsaw : Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press by Kristina Borjesson (Editor), Gore Vidal (Foreword)
• (book) [Amazon] The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril by Leonard, Jr Downie, Robert G. Kaiser
• (book) [Amazon] Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives by Todd Gitlin
• (book) [Amazon] Trust Us, We're Experts : How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles With Your Future by Sheldon Rampton, John Stauber
• (book) [Amazon] You Are Being Lied To: The Disinformation Guide To Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes & Cultural Myths by Russ Kick
• (book) [Amazon] Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (California Studies in Food and Culture) by Marion Nestle
• (book) [NYU Press] Collateral Language - A User's Guide to America's New War
• (book) [Amazon] Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion By Randal Marlin
• (book) [Amazon] When Corporations Rule the World by David Korten
• [book] No Questions Asked - A critical look at news coverage in the U.S since 9/11

Media/News Sites (0) (Faves)

• Amnesty International on Afghanistan
• Red Cross/Red Crescent on Afghanistan
• Forced Migration Review on Afghanistan
• FAS: Congressional Research Service - Intelligence and Related Issues
• Palestinian Information Centre
• Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
• MSANews Muslim Student Association News
• Woice in the Wilderness
• NGWRC: Post War Iraq
• Center for Nonproliferation Studies - Monterey Institute of International Studies
• Witness for Peace on 9-11
• CDT on 9-11
• LexisNexis: Attack on America in Context
• Red Cross Red Crescent
• American Jewish Committee
• US 911 Network
• Independent Institute
• Peace Action
• FAIR on Terrorism
• ANSWER - Act Now to Stop War & End Racism
• Institute for Security Technology Studies
• CSICOP Hoax Watch
• No War Collective
• Anti-Fascism Org
• Human Rights Watch
• School of the Americas Watch
• School of the Americas Watch / NE
• VVAW Vietnam Veterans Against the War on 9-11
• RSF: "Taliban and the media. A country with no news and pictures"
• WAPHA: Women's Alliance for Peace and Human Rights in Afghanistan
• AHVL Afghanistan Information Center
• Free Dr. Yunis Shaikh
• The Fire This Time (Iraq data - Extreme Deformity pix)
• Peace Now (Israel)
• MADRE: A toolkit in response to the September 11 attacks
• JJME - Jews for Justice in the Middle East
• IOM - International Organization for Migration
• Jammu Kashmir Net
• MoveOn War Profiteering
• Project Underground
• Aliyev - Azerbaijan

• US: State Dept. on Human Rights in Afghanistan
• The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) 0
• The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) 1
• The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) 2
• US Government Response site
• US State Dept. Pakistan - Travel Warning Sept 17, 2001
• US State Dept. Travel Restrictions & Recommendations
• Hizbollah Home Page
• Palestine National Authority
• Pentagon Emergency Page
• UNHCR
• UNHCR on Afghanistan
• Green Party USA - Statement on the Disasters
• The White House
• Pakistan Government
• India - PM
• India - Ministry of External Affairs
• New York City
• Saudi Arabia - Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• President of Iran
• UN Permanent Observer Mission in Palestine
• US State Dept. Counterterrorism Office
• Chechnya
• Saudi Embassy
• UN on Terrorism
• UK Gov't Emergency News
• King of Jordan
• IATA
• ICAO
• NATO SFOR (Balkans)
• NATO
• European Union
• Terrorism Law & Policy
• Israeli Government
• Organization of the Islamic Conference
• Japanese Defense Agency
• Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Egyptian President
• Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
• Indonesian Minstry of Foreign Affairs
• OIC Organization of the Islamic Conference
• Arab League
• Kurdistan Democratic Party
• Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
• UK PM - 10 Downing
• 2001/10/12: BXA (Bureau of Export Administration): The Denial List
• Pro bin Laden website
• DNI: Democracy Network of Iran
• US NTAC - National Threat Assessment Center
• NSAEBB - [US] National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Books

• CAIR
• MCB
• American Arab Defence Committee
• Islamic Information and Resource Centre
• World Islamic Network
• Habiba Chaouch Foundation
• Shia Org.
• Koran etext
• IAP Islamic Association For Palestine
• MAB: Muslim Association of Britain
• AAI: Arab American Institute

• War Resisters League
• Alternet - The Anti-War Movement
• Witness for Peace
• Human Rights Now
• Not In Our Name
• No War Collective
• Peace Brigades International
• Citizens for Legitimate Government - Demonstrations Against War
• Honoring Our Human Goodness
• Peace Protest Net
• International Peace Bureau (IPB)
• Peacework Magazine
• FCNL - Friends Committee on National Legislation
• September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
• AFSC - American Friends Service Committee [a Quaker organization]
• Mid-Missouri Peaceworks
• California Peace Action
• Code Pink 4 Peace
• United For Peace
• Oregon Peaceworks
• International ANSWER: Act Now to Stop War & End Racism
• Stop the War (UK)
• CND: Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
• United For Peace
• Move On
• Cynics 4 Peace
• Australian Anti-Bases
• Rice For Peace
• ---
• UNV United Nations Volunteers
• IFRC The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
• MSF Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders

• The Global Recession
• The Global Recession Archive
• Current Lebanon-Israel War News Stories
• Current Iraq War News Stories
• Iraq War News Archive
• Iraq Links
• Current Terror War News Stories
• Terrorism News Archive
• War on Terror Links
• Gleichschaltung
• Cindy Sheehan and the Anti-War Movement
• The Downing Street Memo
• Hutton Inquiry News
• Electronic Voting News
• Venezuela
• Index

Last modified December 31, 2008