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Design-Focused University: Is It Really Needed?
The baby boomers are gone, and we need a new breed to continue what they started. Today, design is an obligatory and additional academic subject in majority of American universities. Design is being taught
Read More »5 News Reports a Week Censored by Government
by Mick Meaney | RINF Breaking News Using a Freedom of Information Act request, RINF News has obtained information that reveals the British Government’s attempts to censor news reports in the UK mainstream media.
Read More »41 Journalists Jailed in Iran
The press freedom organization Reporters Without Borders says it is concerned by what it calls the growing repression of journalists and cyber-dissidents in Iran. In a report issued Sunday, the RSF (Reporters Sans Frontieres)
Read More »Mainstream Media Profits Plunge
The bigger newspapers are, the harder their profits fell in the last five years, according to newly revised data provided Monday by the Inland Press Association. Profits fell 100.1% since 2004 at newspapers with
Read More »BBC ‘open to Gaza appeal rethink’?
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has said it is open to reconsidering its earlier decision not to telecast a charity appeal for funds for Palestinians in Gaza.“We never say never and clearly, if the DEC
Read More »Pentagon cleared of propaganda violations
An internal investigation has cleared the Pentagon of violating a ban on domestic propaganda by using retired military officers to comment positively about the war in Iraq in the US media. In a report
Read More »Canada’s “constitutional coup” and the corporate media
By Keith Jones | Canada’s corporate media is either vocally supporting Thursday’s “constitutional coup” – the minority Conservative government and the unelected governor-general shut down parliament so as to prevent the opposition parties from
Read More »AP lifts ban on military photos
The Associated Press on Friday lifted its suspension on the use of photos provided by the U.S. military after the Pentagon assured the news cooperative that it would avoid distributing altered images to the
Read More »‘War in Iraq is over’ – US ‘media’
The wars in Iraq and Afganistan are now over and President George W. Bush has been indicted on treason charges, according to the New York Times. Sort of. RT | Citizens of the Big
Read More »Journalists warned to get out of Afghanistan
AUSTRALIAN journalists in Afghanistan have been targeted by terrorists and were warned yesterday by the Federal Government to consider leaving the country. “Credible reports suggest terrorists may be targeting journalists, including Australians, in Afghanistan,”
Read More »The Right Dictates MSNBC’s Programming Decisions
By Glenn Greenwald - Salon | MSNBC’s announcement that it is replacing Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews with David Gregory as anchors for its main political events (the upcoming presidential debates and election) vividly illustrates
Read More »McCain Strategist Blasts Media
By Howard Kurtz | Sen. John McCain‘s top campaign strategist accused the news media Tuesday of being “on a mission to destroy” Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin by displaying “a level of viciousness and scurrilousness” in
Read More »More People are Catching on to Corporate Media Lies
By Michael Cambray | It seems that most people are finally awakening to the fact that it is not a good idea to blindly accept the manipulating lies with which we are daily brainwashed,
Read More »Journalist says U.S. target was Al-Jazeera
By Bob Egelko | After more than six years as a prisoner of the United States, former TV cameraman Sami al-Hajj is back at work with Al-Jazeera, the largest broadcaster in the Arab world, a
Read More »White House press corps plane detained in China
BEIJING – A charter airplane carrying the White House press corps was detained for nearly three hours Friday at Beijing’s international airport not long after President Bush arrived to attend the Olympic Games. The
Read More »Media Censorship at Olympics in China Mirrors FDA Censorship of Health Product Claims in America
NaturalNews | The U.S. media is loudly protesting the censorship of their reporters at the Olympics in Beijing. Betraying its promise to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), China has blocked reporters’ access to “sensitive”
Read More »Channel 4 to be censured over controversial climate film
Watchdog finds documentary was unfair to scientists but did not mislead viewers Owen Gibson, media correspondent, The Guardian The former chief scientist Sir David King and the IPCC complained about Channel 4’s film The
Read More »Mainstream Media Promotes Medical Myths by ‘Dispelling’ Them
By Neil McLaughlin | The MSNBC TODAY Show recently teamed up with drug companies to help “dispel” several “medical myths” that were “passed down by your grandparents” and which may have led you to
Read More »Reporters Say Networks Block War Reports
By Brian Stelter | Getting a story on the evening news isn’t easy for any correspondent. And for reporters in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is especially hard, according to Lara Logan, the chief foreign
Read More »How powerful is the mass media?
Socialist Worker | Our rulers can’t fool all of the people all of the time, argues Sadie Robinson. The idea that the mass media controls our ideas is a very common one. According to
Read More »Pentagon: Shooting of Reuters journalist in Iraq justified
By LOLITA C. BALDOR | The 2005 shooting death of a Reuters journalist in the midst of a firefight in Baghdad was justified because U.S. soldiers believed the camera protruding from an unmarked car
Read More »Why Are Corporate Journalists So Afraid of Questioning Authority?
By Scott Ritter | “I think the questions were asked. I think we pushed. I think we prodded. I think we challenged the president. I think not only those of us in the White House
Read More »BBC uncovers lost Iraq billions
By Jane Corbin | A BBC investigation estimates that around $23bn (£11.75bn) may have been lost, stolen or just not properly accounted for in Iraq. For the first time, the extent to which some
Read More »Democrats introduce bill to outlaw Pentagon propaganda
By Muriel Kane | Last April, the New York Times revealed that retired officers serving as military analysts on television news shows had regularly been briefed by the Pentagon and supplied with pro-war and
Read More »White House fed war propaganda to a “complicit” media
By Bill Van Auken | In a stunning blow to what very little remains of the Bush administration’s political credibility, the president’s former press secretary Scott McClellan has published a book indicting the White
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