Media
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The “Evil Guys List”? “Free Journalism” in the Service of US Foreign Policy: The Role of Reporters without Borders By F. William Engdahl
An organization calling itself Reporters Without Borders (RWB; French: Reporters sans frontières, or RSF) has just named Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, China’s President Hu Jintao, Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kazakhstan’s Nursultan Nazarbayev and Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko to their list of Forty Worst Predators of Press Freedom for 2010. Most significant about their list of… Continue reading
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Washington’s Invented Honduran Democracy
As a result of the alarming series of murders of journalists now occurring in Honduras, President Bernard J. Lunzer of The Newspaper Guild Communications Workers of America (representing thousands of working journalists in the U.S. and Canada) joins with Larry Birns, the director of the Washington-based Council in Hemispheric Affairs, in denouncing the slaughter of… Continue reading
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Did Banned Media Report Foretell of Gaza War Crimes? By Jonathan Cook
Shraga Elam, an award-winning Israeli reporter, said Mr Blau’s suppressed article might also have revealed the aims of a widely mentioned but unspecified “third phase” of the Gaza attack, following the initial air strikes and a limited ground invasion, that was not implemented. He suspected the plans involved pushing some of Gaza’s population into Egypt… Continue reading
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The Battle for Net Neutrality: Corporate Takeover or Opportunity? By Megan Tady
On Tuesday, April 6th a federal court decision put the Internet, and your ability to use it, in jeopardy. It’s a major setback for free speech online and for the prospects of connecting the entire country to broadband. Continue reading
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NYT Bronner Tries A Less Biased Path to Reporting on Palestine –and Trips Up
Bronner makes several big mistakes. First, he ignores the long history of Palestinian nonviolent struggle against colonization, beginning in the 1930’s, and characterizes current nonviolent protest against the Occupation in the West Bank as a “new approach.” And second, he credits the movement entirely to the efforts of Fatah political leadership and the business community Continue reading
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COMCAST 1, CITIZENS 0 IN NET NEUTRALITY COURT BATTLE, WARS WAR ON, MY CALL FOR ACTION
A federal appeals court has ruled that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks. Continue reading
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Media Mutes General’s Afghan Admission
‘We have shot an amazing number of people, but to my knowledge, none has ever proven to be a threat,’ McChrystal said during a recent video-conference to answer questions from troops in the field about civilian casualties. Continue reading
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Lies, Damn Lies, and the Media By David Swanson
We need independent media. Is that not yet crystal clear? The strongest grassroots community organization in the country, ACORN, has been swatted away like a fly through the endless airing of fraudulent, badly edited, and irrelevant, but salacious video clips. Elected officials or electoral candidates succeed or fail at the whim of the media cartel.… Continue reading
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New website threatens the success of paywalls?
A new website discovered by The Guardian’s Digital Content Blog, BreakthePaywall!, has arisen to counter the paywalls that news organisations are investigating to increase their revenue from online news. Continue reading
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The New ‘Forgotten’ War By Dahr Jamail
“Forget about oil, occupation, terrorism or even Al-Qaeda. The real hazard for Iraqis these days is cancer. Cancer is spreading like wildfire in Iraq. Thousands of infants are being born with deformities. Doctors say they are struggling to cope with the rise of cancer and birth defects, especially in cities subjected to heavy American and… Continue reading
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Has The Washington Post gone too far?
By hiring former Bush administration speechwriter Marc Thiessen — the second former Bush speechwriter to whom it has given a regular column — The Washington Post has crossed the line. Thiessen is a serial misinformer. And he shouldn’t be rewarded with the audience or credibility that a regular column provides. Continue reading
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Leaked Zionist strategy Paper to counter BDS – MUST READ!
Here is a leaked copy of the Zionist plan to attack the Boycott and Divestment Campaign Against Israel’s Occupation and to strategy to shut down the debate on the Palestinian issue and to shift it discussion of anti-Semitism and not Israel’s illegal Occuption and illegal settlements and human rights violations. Continue reading
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Ibrahim Hewitt – The Observer, Israel and the language of war
Resistance against military occupation is, of course, entirely legitimate, and yet the Observer refers to such resistance as “terrorism”, following the Sharon doctrine in its entirety. For it was Ariel Sharon who in an act of opportunism said in the wake of 9/11: “Now the American people know what we [in Israel] have been going… Continue reading
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War Propaganda: Western Media, Not Israeli Hasbara By Ramzy Baroud
With the dreadful threat of yet another Israeli war in the Middle East looming, Israeli propaganda machine is likely to go into full gear. Continue reading
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Fox News lashes out at RT over anti-war activist interview
Fox News talk show host Bill O’Reilly has ruthlessly criticized RT for its interview with former anti-war activist Bill Ayers last week, which has subsequently thrust the US medias bias to the fore. Continue reading
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The Week at BAGnewsNotes
BAGnews focuses on the National Prayer Breakfast attendees, shares the show at the Tea Party convention, and examines visual displays of power in Haiti. Continue reading
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The New York Times’ Israel Editor’s Sticky Situation By Alison Weir
Ethan Bronner is the New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief. As such, he is the editor responsible for all the news coming out of Israel-Palestine. It is his job to decide what gets reported and what doesn’t; what goes in a story and what gets cut. His son just joined the Israeli army. Continue reading
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Sign the Right2Link E-Petition
As our first public campaign move, we’ve started a 10 Downing Street e-petition that asks for linking to be protected now and in the future by making sure links are always kept separate from copyright material. If you are a UK citizen or resident, please sign the petition today to add your voice on this… Continue reading
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The Creed of Objectivity Killed the News By Chris Hedges
Reporters who witness the worst of human suffering and return to newsrooms angry see their compassion washed out or severely muted by the layers of editors who stand between the reporter and the reader. The creed of objectivity and balance, formulated at the beginning of the 19th century by newspaper owners to generate greater profits… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 