Accuracy, Context & History:
How The Media Handle "Why"
Journalism's Response To Terrorism's War
Profiles of 10 regional U.S. newspapers that have dealt with the fallout of September 11 in innovative ways — beefing up web accounts, assigning more foreign reporters, pooling efforts, making canny new hires, more. From Columbia Journalism Review
Plus: Porn king takes his first amendment fight to Afghanistan.
The Paranoid Press
Writing from New Delhi, Sutanu Guru says that since September 11 the global media — led by the American TV networks — have been afflicted by "hysteria, paranoia, amnesia and myopia." From Press Institute of India-ReportingPeople.org, December 28
News Dissector: War Crimes
The massacre of prisoners in an Afghan prison is being condemned by many throughout the world as a war crime. Danny Schechter asks: Why are the U.S. media largely ignoring the controversy?
Also see: Afghan prison massacre: American media accounts differ from other sources From MediaChannel.org, December 4
Invisible Immigrants
If the press didn't ignore immigrants, innocent people might not be waiting — and dying — behind bars, writes Laura Flanders, who says U.S. media shouldn't be given too much credit for finally paying attention to the hundreds detained since September 11. From TomPaine.com, November 30
Reporting Secret Tribunals
In accepting a Committee to Protect Journalists award, The New York Times' Joseph Lelyveld spoke out against Bush's military tribunals and urged others journalists to do the same. From Committee to Protect Journalists
Plus: What the U.S. press has to say on secret tribunals.
Team Anthrax
Did having a best-selling book about biological weapons to promote cause New York Times bioterrorism reporters to go heavy on hype and light on facts? From The Nation, December 17 edition
The Demographics Of Lining Up
How class and geography affect the new reality of Americans standing in long
lines at airports. Who's missing from those lines? asks Mark Trahant. From Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, November 30
Afghanistan: Media And Democracy
Running wars via modern media is difficult to balance with democracy,
says Afghanistan expert Michael Griffin in this interview with Danny
Schechter. From MediaChannel, November 28
Terrorism, war and the certainty of uncertainty.
From Spiked Ltd, November 22
Meet the new news. Same as the old news
From Project for
Excellence in Journalism, November 19
When Anthrax hits the newsroom
From Columbia Journalism Review
Godfrey
Sperling: Networks must not ignore Bush
From The Christian
Science Monitor Online, November 20
Journalists, in making sense of these transformation, can lead the way
to a better world.
From World
Association of Newspapers, November 12
Where are
Afghanistan's women?
From The Hoot, November 12
Don't closet
gay heroes
From National Lesbian and Gay Journalists
Association, October 22
Why journalism education and advocacy is more important than ever.
PLUS: "Terrorism: Is Your Newsroom Ready?" (Watch video. Read more.)
From Society of Professional Journalists, November 2
Toxic Journalism: The horror of anthrax coverage
From NewsForChange.com, October 25
Wall Street Versus The Press
From Boston Phoenix, October 25
Pundits Target Iraq
From The Nation magazine, October 31
Footage-Starved Media Serving Up Empty Stories?
From Los Angeles Weekly, October 26
The Not-So-Big (War) Picture: Speculation instead of facts.
From Institute for War and Peace Reporting, October 23
Cynthia Cotts: Undercounting The Casualties
From The Village Voice, October 17 and NewsForChange, October 22
The Marriott Media: The foreign press in Pakistan
From The Earth Times, October 16
News Dissector: Did the media change after September 11?
From MediaChannel, October 24
Is all-the-time anthrax coverage obscuring other important stories of war?
From TomPaine, October 22
VIDEO — Norman Solomon on C-Span: The U.S. media did well covering tragedy and failed covering policy.
From C-Span, October 15
The panicked and flawed media coverage of the anthrax scares is probably just what the terrorists want.
From NewsForChange, October 15
Ignoring the oil behind the war.
From TomPaine, October 11
From Thailand one can see how CNN fails to inform.
From Globalvision News Network, October 15
News Dissector: "We need to deepen our global conversation."
From MediaChannel.org, October 16
Britain On The Terrorism Beat
From MediaChannel Forum, October 9
Edward Said: The West Versus Islam?
From The Nation, October 22 issue
Todd Gitlin responds to Edward Said
From OpenDemocracy, October 10
Trivia-obsessed U.S. press ignored bin Laden's growing power.
From Globalvision News Network, October 10
"On the ground zero of world journalism, too many of us are not up to the task."
From Nepali Times via Globalvision News Network, October 5
Why we need public broadcasting more than ever.
From TomPaine.com, October 5
Challenging the "news blackout" on the crisis in Iraq.
From World Association for Christian Communication, October 2
How the "war on terrorism" is the clone of the "war on drugs."
From Narco News Network, September 28
U.S. media don't ask "why" — An article and forum discussion.
From MediaChannel Forum, September 25
Balanced and temperate coverage in Russia
From Transitions Online, September 20
Foreign news is back in Britain
From The Media Guardian, October 1
Nina Burliegh: Neglected international coverage has left Americans "in a knowledge vacuum"
From TomPaine.com, September 17
What the media missed for 20 years
From consortiumnews.com, September 17
Cynthia Cotts: When Media Abandoned Profit
From The Village Voice, September 19
The View From The Radio: NPR Listeners Respond
From NPR
Huffington: Profit-Seeking Tabloid Media Failed Us
From Salon, September 13
Parrish: The Media's Mess
From Alternet, September 11
