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TV News Stresses Strategy, Downplays Issues
TV news coverage of the presidential primaries has focused on campaign strategy rather than candidates’ stands on issues, and gave some candidates 100 times more coverage than others, according to a new study by
Read More »Propaganda and the media
By Joseph L. Galloway | Once upon a time, it was widely believed that one of the greatest sins the U.S. government or its temporary political masters could commit was to turn a propaganda
Read More »BBC kept £106,000 of charity cash
By Leigh Holmwood | The BBC today apologised for keeping £106,000 made from premium-rate phone calls on about two dozen shows that should have been given to charity. In the latest scandal to hit the
Read More »Pentagon’s Propaganda Documents Go Online
By John Stauber | Eight thousand pages of documents related to the Pentagon’s illegal propaganda campaign, known as the Pentagon military analyst program, are now online for the world to see, although in a
Read More »UN official decries weakening of press freedom
Dawn | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has decried weakening of press freedom world over, saying that governments are becoming more secretive and offering propaganda disguised as objective information — especially
Read More »Al Jazeera Cameraman Freed From Guantánamo
RHC | Al Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Haj has been released from the U.S.-run military prison at Guantánamo. Arrested in Pakistan in December 2001, al-Haj had spent nearly six-and-a-half years at Guantánamo without charge or trial.
Read More »Worldwide Support for Free Media
By Mick Meaney – RINF | A new major survey of world nations has found the majority of people support a free media and strongly object to government control on both traditional and Internet
Read More »Poll: Bush most unpopular in modern history
CNN | A new poll suggests that George W. Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history. A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Thursday indicates that 71 percent of the American public
Read More »TV Networks Silenced Anti-War Voices
By Jeff Cohen | In the fall of 2002, week after week, I argued vigorously against invading Iraq in debates televised on MSNBC. I used every possible argument that might sway mainstream viewers –
Read More »Murdoch accused as top US editor resigns
By Andrew Clark – The Guardian | Four months after buying the Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch has been accused by a special independent committee of breaking “the letter and the spirit” of an agreement to
Read More »Pentagon cuts ties with mouthpieces
The Pentagon has temporarily stopped feeding information to pundits who generate ‘favorable’ war coverage for the Bush administration. According to The New York Times, the Defense Department had been giving information to retired military
Read More »Pentagon Propaganda Worse Than We Thought
By John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton – PR Watch | David Barstow of the New York Times has written the first installment in what is already a stunning exposé of the Bush Administration’s most
Read More »Fallout from New York Times “Pentagon Pundits” Story
IPA | The recent New York Times front-page article “Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand” discloses Pentagon records which “reveal a symbiotic relationship where the usual dividing lines between government and journalism have been
Read More »Murdoch to buy New York rival
THE US publishing company Tribune has agreed in principle to sell the New York newspaper Newsday to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp for about $US580 million ($616million). Under the terms of a deal, Newsday would
Read More »The most potent weapon wielded by Murdoch and China
By George Monbiot | If you want to know how powerful Rupert Murdoch is, read the reviews of Bruce Dover’s book, Rupert’s Adventures in China. Well, go on, read them. You can’t find any? I
Read More »Behind Analysts, the Pentagon’s Hidden Hand
By DAVID BARSTOW In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantánamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded “the gulag of our times” by Amnesty
Read More »Israeli Troops Kill Reuters Cameraman
Democracy Now! Among the dead was twenty-three-year-old Fadel Shana, a cameraman for the Reuters news agency. He was killed when an Israeli tank shell struck his clearly marked jeep. Shana was filming at the
Read More »The BBC as an Imperial Tool?
Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News At a time of growing public disenchantment with the major media, millions now rely on alternate sources. Many online and print ones are credible. One of the world’s most
Read More »AP photographer wins amnesty from Iraqi panel
AP BAGHDAD – An Iraqi judicial committee has dismissed terrorism-related allegations against Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein and ordered him released nearly two years after he was detained by the U.S. military. A decision
Read More »Breaking Through the News Filter
Peter Chamberlin If it is true that the power belongs to the people in America, and Congress still answers to the people, then what force prevents the people from rising up to demand that
Read More »Media Tells People To Drink Soda Not Water
As proof that mainstream health information continutes to become increasingly detached from reality, the mainstream media (MSM) has launched a new wave of misinformation designed to discredit the health benefits of drinking water! Just
Read More »Adbusters’ Ads Busted
By James H. Ewert Jr. Kalle Lasn is a fighter for the right to communicate. A privilege, says the founder of Adbusters magazine, that goes one step farther than the freedom of speech. “You
Read More »Military Report: Secretly ‘Recruit or Hire Bloggers’
A study, written for U.S. Special Operations Command, suggested “clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers.” Since the start of the Iraq war, there’s been a raucous debate in military circles over how to handle blogs
Read More »Where Was Media When Sub-Prime Disaster Unfolded?
“It is somewhat surprising,” Larry Elliott, economics editor of London’s The Guardian observed recently, “that there is not already rioting in the streets, given the gigantic fraud perpetrated by the financial elite at the
Read More »Why the Government doesn’t care what you think
“All the more reason for us to elect the right person come November — so that in four years, we don’t run the risk of seeing someone from the next administration yawn in the
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