• TV News Stresses Strategy, Downplays Issues

  TV news coverage of the presidential primaries has focused on campaign strategy rather than candidates’ stands on issues,...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• Pentagon’s Propaganda Documents Go Online

  By John Stauber | Eight thousand pages of documents related to the Pentagon’s illegal propaganda campaign, known as...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• Worldwide Support for Free Media

  

  May 2, 2008 23:27

  By Mick Meaney – RINF | A new major survey of world nations has found the majority of people support a free media...

   

• 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...

   

• 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....

   

• 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...

   

• Pentagon cuts ties with mouthpieces

  The Pentagon has temporarily stopped feeding information to pundits who generate ‘favorable’ war coverage for...

   

• 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...

   

• Fallout from New York Times “Pentagon Pundits” Story

  

  Apr 25, 2008 3:23

  IPA | The recent New York Times front-page article “Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand” discloses...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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....

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• AP photographer wins amnesty from Iraqi panel

  AP BAGHDAD – An Iraqi judicial committee has dismissed terrorism-related allegations against Associated Press photographer...

   

• Breaking Through the News Filter

  

  Apr 8, 2008 4:44

  Peter Chamberlin  If it is true that the power belongs to the people in America, and Congress still answers to the people,...

   

• Media Tells People To Drink Soda Not Water

  As proof that mainstream health information continutes to become increasingly detached from reality, the mainstream media...

   

• 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,...

   

• Military Report: Secretly ‘Recruit or Hire Bloggers’

  A study, written for U.S. Special Operations Command, suggested “clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers.” Since...

   

• Where Was Media When Sub-Prime Disaster Unfolded?

  “It is somewhat surprising,” Larry Elliott, economics editor of London’s The Guardian observed recently,...

   

• 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...