Media
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FAIR Challenges CBC Ombud’s Report on media coverage of Israel/Palestine
FAIR is challenging the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for making false and biased claims after a campaign by groups that advocate for uncritical coverage of Israel. Continue reading
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Becky Hogge: BT wants to monitor your online activities
Phorm, which dials direct into your internet service provider’s network and intercepts communications between you and the websites you visit, using information about the sorts of things you are viewing to serve you targeted ads. Continue reading
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Sarah Gillepsie: The BBC and the transformation of suffering into propaganda
BBC director general Mark Thomson can not screen footage of Palestinian suffering in Gaza without compromising his cooperation’s impartiality. At the heart of his obfuscation lays a belief that Palestinian pain is not an objective reality. Continue reading
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Gaza Aid Appeal BBC occupation success
Over 100 people occupied BBC Scotland’s headquarters today, demanding that the BBC show the Disasters Emergency Committee Gaza appeal. Continue reading
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Move to End “Internet Neutrality”: Blow to Bloggers. “Ten Pin Strike against Political Freedom” By Sherwood Ross
“If Congress turns the Internet over to the telephone and cable giants, everyone who uses the Internet will be affected” Continue reading
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Gaza: The Facts Are Insufficiently Impartial
The BBC says that its decision was prompted by concerns that broadcasting such an appeal would call its impartiality into question. I have to confess, I have absolutely no idea what this can mean. Continue reading
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BBC BLOCKS AID TO GAZA: PROTEST 24 JANUARY BRING DOLLS TO LAY OUTSIDE THE BBC BRING SHOES WITH A MESSAGE FOR GORDON BROWN
If the BBC was not tarnished enough by its coverage of Israel’s attack on Gaza — in the words of Tony Benn, “often looking like a propaganda wing of the Zionist lobby” — its decision yesterday to block an appeal for emergency aid to Gaza would be reason enough for making the BBC a focus… Continue reading
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Israel Recruits Army Of Bloggers To Troll Anti-War Websites
According to a report in Haaretz, the Immigrant Absorption Ministry is setting up `an army of bloggers` who will `represent` Israel on `anti-Zionist blogs` in English, French, Spanish and German. Continue reading
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How Israel’s Propaganda Machine Works by James Zogby (Middle East Online)
When events and reality break through, contradicting the Israeli-established narrative, creating stories that run counter to the imposed story line, the propaganda machine works overtime to deny, deny, deny Continue reading
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Media Advisory: International Law Seldom Newsworthy in Gaza War
The idea that leaders of a military or government force being alumni of a particular school makes that school a military target is not one U.S. media would take seriously in most contexts. The CIA often recruits officers from Yale; does that make Yale a legitimate military target? Continue reading
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Why the Internet Weakens the Authority of the Press By Jay Rosen
In the age of mass media, the press was able to define the sphere of legitimate debate with relative ease because the people on the receiving end were atomized Continue reading
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Richard Kastelein: IFJ Calls for Global Protest Over Media Blockade
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on the journalism world to raise its voice in protest over Israeli government pressure on media trying to cover the Gaza conflict. Continue reading
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Dan Alba – Will AP Ever Stop Lying for Israel?
On January 9, The Associated Press released a report titled “A look at the Islamic militant Hamas group.” Like virtually all AP reports on Israel-Palestine, it is loaded with examples of journalistic malpractice: omission of the most basic and vital facts, use of the most sensationalistic or flatly wrong language, contradictions, and untruths. Continue reading
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Raanan Shaked: Bomb it yourself
You calmly go into Hot’s VOD and there on the main menu waiting for you is the category of Cast Lead. You select it and there you are — whole worlds of rich and entertaining content, courtesy of the IDF Spokesperson Office! Continue reading
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The Jerusalem Post explains why Israel has gotten such ‘good’ media coverage
This first-hand experience of life under rocket fire may be one of the reasons Israeli diplomats and spokesmen feel Israel is finally getting a hearing in the international media. Continue reading
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Shiko Behar: NY times: Who Ended the 6 Month Cease-fire in Israel/Palestine?
While the editors of the New York Times assign the blame conveniently and squarely on Hamas, this nevertheless remains a factually erroneous statement contradicting reporting by Israeli newspapers (in both Hebrew and English), British press, Amnesty International and – perhaps curiously enough – November 2008 reporting by the NYT itself. Continue reading
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Gaza media blackout
The blockade of Gaza has now been extended to the media In this week’s News Divide we turn our attention to the Israeli blockade of Gaza, which has now been extended to the media, creating a news blackout that has severely restricted the reporting of the suffering in Gaza to the outside world. In the Continue reading
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Dahr Jamail: As Usual, the NYT Ignores Iraqi Opinion; Anecdotes trump polls on withdrawal
Despite the mea culpa, though, the Times continues to mislead on Iraq, particularly on the issue of whether or not Iraqis want the U.S. military to exit their country. Continue reading
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Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2008
Now in their seventeenth year, the P.U.-litzer Prizes recognize some of the nation’s stinkiest media performances. As the judges for these annual awards, we do our best to identify the most deserving recipients of this unwelcome plaudit. Continue reading
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Recent Pictures From BAGnewsNotes
BAGnewsNotes offers a daily analysis of news images from a progressive point of view. The BAG calls out media bias, breaks down right wing visual propaganda, and helps turn its readers into sharper “visual consumers.” Continue reading
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