Media
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Media Complicity in Financial Crimes By Danny Schechter
When I discovered that dodgy lenders and credit card companies pumped more than $3 billion into media advertising, which inflated the housing bubble between 2002 and 2007, I thought I had my answer. Yet, even I, as savvy as I thought I was, missed an important link which was hidden in plain sight — who… Continue reading
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Fears for South Africa's Press Freedom By Chris Stein
‘The broad language of the POI Bill would criminalise information-gathering methods essential to investigative journalism,’ Ayesha Kajee, executive director of the Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI), told IPS. ‘It would chill the practice of this field of journalism essential to keeping the government accountable to the public.’ Continue reading
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From Mairead Maquire Re: BBC Panorama programme on the Mavi Marmara
Sadly, the Panorama programme did not see the true significance of this historic journey and missed an opportunity for the media to fulfil its responsibility to ‘tell the truth and nothing but the truth’. They choose instead to try to demonize the passengers on the from the word go MV ‘Mavi Marmara’ by trying to… Continue reading
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BBC News – Wikileaks founder Julian Assange accused of rape
wedish authorities say they have issued an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, on accusations of rape and molestation. Wikileaks, criticised for leaking Afghan war documents, quoted him saying the charges were ‘without basis’. Continue reading
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BBC News – Filmmaker Moore gives to fund for Wikileaks accused
Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore has donated $5,000 (£3,900) to help defend Army Spc Bradley Manning, the man suspected of giving classified documents to the website Wikileaks. Continue reading
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Why Wikileaks Must Be Protected By John Pilger
Wikileaks released thousands of secret US military files on the war in Afghanistan. Cover-ups, a secret assassination unit and the killing of civilians are documented. In file after file, the brutalities echo the colonial past. From Malaya and Vietnam to Bloody Sunday and Basra, little has changed. Continue reading
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Inquiry exposes massive Israeli media manipulation campaign in US
Files declassified in America have revealed the covert public relations and lobbying activities of Israel in the US. The National Archive made the documents public following a Senate investigation. They suggest Israel has been trying to shape media coverage of issues it regards as important. Continue reading
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A beautiful gift from the BBC by Ken O’Keefe
18 August, 2010 — Uprooted Palestinians Uprooted Palestinians are at the heart of the conflict in the M.E Palestinians uprooted by force of arms. Yet faced immense difficulties have survived, kept alive their history and culture, passed keys of family homes in occupied Palestine from one generation to the next. If you haven’t seen it,… Continue reading
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Gen. Petraeus Goes to Media War By Norman Solomon
Let’s be clear about what’s happening here. The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, with the evident approval of the White House, has launched a fierce media blitz to cripple the policy option of any significant military withdrawal a year from now. Riding high in what is supposed to be a civilian-run military, Petraeus is… Continue reading
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A Roundup of Net Neutrality Stories 6 May – 7 August, 2010
7 August, 2010 — Net Neutrality 7/8/10 – Verizon & Google Enter Reported Deal for Tiered Internet Use, Is Net Neutrality in Jeopardy? 6/8/10 – Has the internet just sold its soul? By Stephen Foley 6/8/10 – Net neutrality talks stall in US 6/8/10 – Has the internet just sold its soul? 5/8/10 – Under… Continue reading
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Has the internet just sold its soul? By Stephen Foley
Google stood accused last night of betraying the founding principles of the internet, as it readied a deal that will abandon key parts of its support for ‘net neutrality’, which has guaranteed equal access to the worldwide web since its inception. In what one internet freedom campaigner called a ‘doomsday scenario’ that will change the… Continue reading
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Under Threat: A Free And Open Internet By Stephen Lendman
Federal regulators are ‘wading into a bitter policy dispute that could be tied up in Congress and the courts for years.’ At stake: a free, open, and affordable Internet, threatened by powerful phone and cable giants wanting to privatize and control it, have unregulated pricing power, and decide what’s published at what speed or blocked. Continue reading
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“MEDIA GIVES OBAMA PASS ON IRAQ”
Recently, President Obama has been talking about his pledge to get out of Iraq. And he was supposed to have all the combat troops out more or less by the end of this month. But it seems what we’re getting, perhaps, is rebranding. Continue reading
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The Flattr Micropayment System
Flattr is a social micropayment platform that lets you show love for the things you like – Help support the people you like and enable them to continue with what they do. Continue reading
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FAIR: Does the NY Times Factcheck Op-Eds?
On August 2, the New York Times published an op-ed arguing that Arabs do not care much about Palestinians–and that this is a good thing, especially for Palestinians. But the argument relied on a “poll” of the Arab world that does not exist. Continue reading
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On Wikileaks (III): “We’d like his cooperation…” By Arthur Silber
1 August, 2010 — Once Upon a Time… Within the next few days, I will publish a detailed analysis of the criticisms of Wikileaks and the latest release of Afghanistan documents offered, not by conservative/rightwing bastards like Varadarajan (discussed in the last section of this article), but by what we might call the “radical left.”… Continue reading
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Wikileaks, Resistance, Genuine Heroes, and Breaking the Goddamned Rules (II) By Arthur Silber
29 July, 2010 — Once Upon a Time… Life and Death in the Obedience Culture I have sometimes described America today as an “obedience culture.” The phrase refers to the fact that, beneath the specifics of the largely pointless debates on any topic you care to name, those who purport to speak on behalf of… Continue reading
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Wikileaks, Resistance, Genuine Heroes, and Breaking the Goddamned Rules (I) By Arthur Silber
27 July, 2010 — Once Upon a Time… The other day, I offered some observations about the Wikileaks story and the latest release of a huge number of documents. My comments were focused very narrowly: I wanted to highlight the great heroism of those who run Wikileaks and are otherwise involved in these continuing leaks… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Afghanistan Latest Stories 27-28 July, 2010
28 July, 2010 Oil leaks = wikileaks by Roxanne Amico WikiLeaks Documents Expose Obama’s Brutal Afghan War, White House Blames the Messengers Comment on More of Lara Logan’s Media Criticism by Tweets that mention FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » More of Lara Logan’s Media Criticism — Topsy.com Afghanistan war experts re-up strategy for war… Continue reading
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An aggregation of stories on the Wikileaks Afghanistan Exposé 27 July, 2010
Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation + Interviews with Julian Assange an aggregation of links 25-27 July, 2010 Continue reading
The New Dark Age 