Media
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Jamison Foser: The media’s Minnesota debacle
With only about 200 votes out of nearly 3 million cast separating Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman and his Democratic challenger, Al Franken, the race is headed to a recount. Naturally, conservative radio hosts are working themselves into a lather, baselessly accusing Democrats of trying to “steal” the election. That shouldn’t surprise anyone. But NBC and… Continue reading
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Benjamin Hartman: GA Magazine / The Internet intifada
The JIDF made headlines in August by executing a takeover of a popular anti-Zionist Facebook group called ‘Israel is not a country! Please Facebook delete it.’ Continue reading
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HUNDREDS CLAIM CREDIT FOR NEW YORK TIMES SPOOF
Hundreds of independent writers, artists, and activists are claiming credit for an elaborate project, 6 months in the making, in which 1.2 million copies of a “special edition” of the New York Times were distributed in cities across the U.S. by thousands of volunteers. Continue reading
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Under Obama, Web Would Be the Way
Armed with millions of e-mail addresses and a political operation that harnessed the Internet like no campaign before it, Barack Obama will enter the White House with the opportunity to create the first truly “wired” presidency. Continue reading
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Wikileaks: “Malaysia Today editor freed”
WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE For immediate release. Mon Nov 10 22:43:37 GMT 2008 On Friday Malaysia’s Shah Alam High Court freed blogger and Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamarudin from the Kamuting detention center, where he had been held under Malaysia’s notorious Internal Security Act. Raja Petra, 58, was detained on September 12, two and a… Continue reading
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Wikileaks accepts $2.1M journalism competition
WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE For immediate release. Tue Nov 11 03:59:05 GMT 2008 “News Challenge” As of November 1st Wikileaks has accepted the Knight Foundation News Challenge 2009 and applied for $2.1M funding. As the Challenge has received over 2,000 submissions, Wikileaks is asking its supporters to draw Knight’s attention to the importance of the Wikileaks… Continue reading
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OSCE Report: A damning admission on the Georgian war
The OSCE concluded that the conflict began on August 7 when US-trained Georgian troops shelled Russian peacekeepers and civilians in the capital of Georgia’s breakaway province of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali. Continue reading
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Studs Terkel: The Passing of An Icon
Studs Terkel was for the little guy. Our voice of America. Against war and “in-bed-with” journalists. To reign in the kind of abuses now rampant. Hold the powerful accountable. Support the public interest. Continue reading
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Jamison Foser, MediaMatters for America: The Right’s “bias” charade
At the end of the 1992 presidential campaign, there was a flurry of news reports about the possibility that the media had favored Bill Clinton over incumbent George H.W. Bush, and that the media’s coverage of the race helped Clinton win. Such complaints might seem a little odd, given the media’s relentless focus during that… Continue reading
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Max Kantar: A Case Study Of Power And Media: The Washington Post
31 October, 2008 Last week’s unilateral attack on Syria and the subsequent coverage of the events by the mainstream US media give us an impeccable illustration of the prevailing ideologies that dictate how news is received, composed, and understood by respectable journalists and reporters. In fact, considering all of the variables surrounding the recent US… Continue reading
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Carolyn Baker: Stolen Elections and Media Blackouts
Stolen Elections and Media Blackouts An Interview With Mark Crispin Miller Global Research, October 29, 2008 Carolyn Baker.net – 2008-10-26 (Burlington, Vermont: October 24, 2008) Shortly before a public lecture presented at Champlain College, I sat down with Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of Media Studies at New York University, to ask him a number of… Continue reading
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Action Alert: The Washington Post Undercounts Iraq Deaths
The Washington Post’s weekly Saturday feature on “Iraq War Casualties” has consistently listed a “maximum count” of Iraqi civilian deaths that is dramatically lower than the likely civilian death tolls assessed through surveys of the Iraqi public. Continue reading
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FAIR Media Advisory: More Than a Two-Person Race
While the major-party race for the White House has been the subject of broad media attention for more than a year, the corporate media have mostly ignored at least four substantial third-party and independent candidates for the presidency. Continue reading
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FAIR Media Advisory: Top Troubling Tropes of Campaign ’08 20 October, 2008
Corporate media coverage of election 2008 has fallen into the well-documented pattern (Extra!, 5-6/08) of reporting on the election as if it were a horse-race rather than a democratic process in which real issues were at stake. Not only do journalists organize the election story around the question–not terribly helpful to voters–of who’s up and… Continue reading
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Norman Solomon: Requiem for the Bailout Storyline
Only two weeks ago, the media hype behind the $700 billion bailout was so intense that it sometimes verged on hysteria. More recent events should not be allowed to obscure the reality that the news media played a pivotal role in stampeding the country into a bailout that was unwise and unjust. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 