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Media should press candidates on open government
WASHINGTON — At a time of continued government secrecy, the news media should press the presidential candidates on whether their administration would enforce “the spirit as well as the letter of the law” protecting
Read More »Tabloid Fabricated Heathrow Plot
Evening Standard condemned by press watchdog for coverage of the Camp for Climate Action’s Heathrow protest. Claim of fabrication upheld. In a much awaited ruling the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) issued a stinging rebuke
Read More »BBC journalists arrested in Irish probe
Four BBC journalists were arrested at the weekend by Irish police monitoring the Real IRA, the dissident group responsible for intermittent violence in Northern Ireland. The four were among 11 men arrested and held
Read More »Ex-Drug Sales Rep Exposes All
Former Eli Lilly Rep Says He Wined and Dined Doctors to Make a Sale To sell their drugs, pharmaceutical companies hire former cheerleaders and ex-models to wine and dine doctors, exaggerate the drug’s benefits
Read More »Public, media losing sight of Iraq, study finds
Only 28 percent know that nearly 4,000 U.S. troops have been killed Twenty-eight percent of the public is aware that nearly 4,000 U.S. personnel have died in Iraq over the past five years, while
Read More »Israel to boycott Al-Jazeera
Israel will boycott Al-Jazeera over what it calls the channel’s ‘biased coverage’ of the regime’s military operation in Gaza. The regime’s foreign ministry has held discussions on the matter and decided to impose an
Read More »Clifford claims tour was ‘publicity stunt’
By Nicholas Christian PRINCE Harry’s tour of duty in Afghanistan was a “PR stunt” that has not fooled the British public, publicist Max Clifford has claimed. The Royal’s 10-week deployment at the front was
Read More »Wikileaks back on the Web
Case that riled privacy advocates turns on unrelated technicalities By Jaikumar Vijayan In a move sure to be welcomed by privacy and civil rights advocates, a California District Court judge on Friday lifted a previous permanent
Read More »Zogby: Alternative Media Replacing Mainstream News
Zogby Poll - 67% View Traditional Journalism as “Out of Touch” Internet is the top source of news for nearly half of Americans; Survey finds two-thirds dissatisfied with the quality of journalism Two thirds of
Read More »BBC 9/11 Conspiracy Files Appeal Hearing Results
No surprise that the complaint was not upheld, The finding is a joke as you would imagine. For example, the BBC’s idea of ‘investigation’ regarding Mayor Willie Brown not flying on 911 is to
Read More »Protestors target ‘Daily Express’ offices
By Sarah Lagan Journalists, anti war activists and religious groups held a protest outside the Daily Express offices today against a series of stories and headlines in the paper which they say encourage “racist
Read More »VIDEO: Globalisation and the Media
An award winning documentary exploring the role of the mass media during the War on ‘Terror’ & Economic trade. Consider a wide range of viewpoints from mainstream news editors, computer hackers, journalists and media
Read More »Wikileaks and Internet Censorship
JONATHAN WERVE Using data from the Global Integrity Index, we put a U.S. court’s recent order to block access to anti-corruption site Wikileaks.org into context. In summary: The Wikileaks.org shutdown is unheard of in
Read More »The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA
WRH “You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month.” – CIA operative discussing with Philip Graham, editor Washington Post, on the availability and prices
Read More »Lies, Damn Lies and the Murdock Empire
By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News For Big Media, truth is a scare commodity and in times of war it’s the first casualty, or as esteemed journalist John Pilger noted: “Journalism (not truth) is
Read More »Pentagon Panel: U.S. Must Sell ‘Good News’
By Sharon Weinberger “The strategic communication problem is to make good news as entertaining as bad news,” says a new report by the Defense Science Board, a senior-level Pentagon advisory panel that normally looks
Read More »How the Media Messes with Your Mind
Statements made in the media can surreptitiously plant distortions in the minds of millions. Learning to recognize two commonly used fallacies can help you separate fact from fiction By Yvonne Raley and Robert Talisse In
Read More »Human Rights : Nico Ntumba
“ A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess …” Dear friend / supporter ;
Read More »Fears of bias as BBC gets £141m in EU loans
Jonathan Oliver THE BBC last night faced accusations of pro-Brussels bias as it was revealed that the corporation had taken out £141m in “soft” loans from the European Union. The broadcaster has taken out
Read More »Rummy Resurfaces, Calls for U.S. Propaganda Agency
By Sharon Weinberger One of the many things I love about Donald Rumsfeld is that he’s totally unrepentant. Back in 2001, the Pentagon under his leadership created the controversial Office of Strategic Influence, which
Read More »British Government Censoring The Web
Frank Fisher When asked to name countries that impose extensive internet censorship, you might think of China, Iran, or North Korea; I doubt you’d think of the UK, but, after the home secretary Jacqui
Read More »British Media Confirms Fbi Nuke Cover-up
RAW STORY The Sunday Times has obtained a document that confirms that a file, which the FBI denied existed, could contain information about American officials stealing nuclear secrets for Turkish and Israeli spies, who
Read More »How the Pentagon Planted a False Story
by Gareth Porter Senior Pentagon officials, evidently reflecting a broader administration policy decision, used an off-the-record Pentagon briefing to turn the Jan. 6 U.S.-Iranian incident in the Strait of Hormuz into a sensational story
Read More »Iran slams US propaganda campaign
US is launching a new propaganda campaign against Iran by showing the video of incident in Hormuz Strait, Iran’s Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar says, PressTV reported.Americans have always pursued a vicious plan to present
Read More »Step forward for open government, new media
THE FIRST significant reform in more than a decade of the federal Freedom of Information Act, signed into law last week by President Bush, is an important step forward for open government and the
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