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Reporter accuses CNN of self-censorship
Nov 14 2000, From The Independent |
CPJ documents cases of journalists shot in Israel and the Palestinian
territories
Regularly updated, From Committee to
Protect Journalists |
Journalists
are not targets, insists Israeli army
Nov 14 2000, From Washington Post |
Israel
Foreign Ministry upset over BBC show on Sharon
Jun 19 2001, From Jerusalem Post |
Israeli army
repudiates "60 Minutes" reenactment
Nov 13 2000, From CBS News |
Web site campaigns against anti-Israeli media bias
Jun 15 2001, From Jerusalem Post |
BBC accused of bias; reporters drawn into conflict
Nov 11 2000, From BBC Radio 4 |
Palestinian Group Denounces Journalists' Kidnap
May 31 2001, From CNN |
Israeli media too dependent on "offical information"
Nov 10 2000, From Le Monde Diplomatique
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Commentator banned from BBC claims anti-Islamic bias
May 21 2001, From The Guardian |
Journalists covering conflict are injured and
harassed
Nov
9 2000, From Committee to Protect Journalists |
Videotape shows
Israeli border patrol shooting at journalists
May 17 2001, From Haaretz |
Conflict online: The Israeli-Palestinian "cyberwar"
Nov 9 2000, From The Industry Standard |
Egyptian pop song attacks Israel as media on both sides find new words for
conflict
May 14 2001, From Ha'aretz |
Mideast conflict a tricky beat
Nov 7 2000, From Philadelphia Inquirer |
Analysis of Philadelphia
Inquirer coverage finds Palestinian actions are not put in context
Apr 24 2001, From Palestine Media Watch |
Arabic press sees
Palestinian uprising as a growing youth movement
Nov
4 2000, From Black World Today |
Israeli peace groups are
ignored by a biased, pro-Israel U.S. press
Apr 19 2001, From FAIR |
Israel claim of bias is
just PR strategy
Nov
4 2000, From Middle East News Service |
Journalists kowtow
to Israel fearing accusations of anti-Semitism, says Robert Fisk
Apr 17 2001, From The Independent |
Electronic media plays
new role in uprising; Mixed blessing for Palestinian press
Nov
4 2000, From AMIN |
Pro-Israeli
bias in U.S. media must be countered with pro-Palestinian alternatives
Apr 4 2001, From Middle East Newswire |
Media reports drop
"Occupied" tag
Nov 3 2000, From FAIR |
Jewish groups accuse UK press of anti-Israel bias
Mar 20 2001, From Virtual Jerusalem |
Israel restricts Palestinian journalists;
Press group condemns decision
Nov
2 2000, From International Press Institute |
"Poisonous"
Arab press ignores language of compromise
Mar 13 2001, From The Washington Post |
Words and images display
world media bias against Palestinians
Nov 2 2000, From Middle East News
Service |
Arab Americans
find anti-Arab bias in U.S. editorial and ad departments
Feb 27 2001, From Village Voice |
News Dissector:
Where media bias comes from
Nov 1 2000, From MediaChannel |
Are U.S. media
conglomerates "sanitizing" Sharon's record?
Feb 16 2001, From Middle East News
Online |
Hebron
TV station may be Israeli target
Nov 1 2000, From Reuters via Altavista |
Palestinian TV chief killed, accused of "corruption" by Palestian
group
Jan 18 2001, BBC News |
U.S. media
slanted Camp David coverage
Nov 1 2000, From Media-Alliance |
Israel Indy Media Center
must not fall into same bias traps as mainstream media
Jan
2 2001, From Israel IMC |
Israel IMC coverage unbalanced, simplistic,
anti-Israel
Oct 31 2000, From Israel IMC |
Israel dominates
Palestine in producing quality English-language news media
Jan
2 2001, From Guardian Unlimited |
Israel giving press
lessons to citizens
Oct 26 2000, From Christian Science
Monitor |
Palestinian press
presents a one-sided Israel
Dec 20 2000, From Ha'aretz |
Children are victims for
guns and for media
Oct
23 2000, From Guardian Unlimited |
"I am being vilified for telling the truth," says Robert Fisk
Dec 13 2000, From The Independent |
Journalists caught in the
crossfire; Press group concerned
Oct
22 2000, From Reporters Sans Frontieres |
Journalists' group
condemns targeting of media outlets
Dec 12 2000, From International
Federation of Journalists |
Both sides oppressing,
abusing the press
Oct 20 2000, From Committee to Protect
Journalists (CPJ) |
International Press
Institute reports press freedom violations and injuries to journalists in Israel and
Palestine
Dec
1 2000, From IPI |
Accusations of bias
against CNN, RAI
Oct 20 2000, From Freedom Forum |
Are images just mirroring or also affecting the conflict?
Dec 1 2000, From Le Monde Diplomatique
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News Dissector:
The U.S. media get it all wrong
Oct 18 2000, From MediaChannel |
War journalism and peace journalism:
A guide for journalists
Nov 22 2000, From MediaChannel |
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Pacifica Radio |
Ongoing coverage and activism:
• Pacifica Foundation releases
• Save Pacifica- Listener Activism
• Free Pacifica
• Pacifica Campaign
• Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica, New York
• Concerned Friends of WBAI
• WBAI Union page
• WBAI In Exile Featuring streaming audio of the exiled
programs, "Wake Up Call" "Democracy Now!".
• North Bay For KPFA Folio
• ZNet's
comprehensive page: Resolving the Pacifica Crisis
• Action alerts
and reports from FAIR
• Ongoing
Pacifica crisis coverage from The Nation
• Free Speech Radio News -
Pacifica Reporters Against Censorship |
Congressman Major Owens charges censorship on
New York's "free speech" radio WBAI
Mar 8 2001, From Save WBAI listserv
Audio of his speech: MP3
(stream) | MP3
(download)
From SavePacifica |
On My Removal From The Air And Banning From WBAI, By Mimi Rosenberg
Mar 5 2001, From The Black World Today |
Nader-founded law firm to represent listener Web site in trademark case
Feb 20 2001, From WBAI.net |
Democracy Now co-host
Juan Gonzalez resigns in protest against Pacifica management
Jan 31 2001, From FAIR
Real Audio | Transcript | Resignation Letter
From Radio4All |
Two More Board Members Resign
Jun 14 2001, From Pacifica Campaign |
News Dissector:
Psychotica Radio Network
Jan 17 2001, From MediaChannel |
Pacifica
Management's Lies and Misrepresentations
(A reply to "Pacifica Myths and Realities") by Lyn Gerry and Edward S. Herman
May 24 2001, From The Nation |
Filipino activist group
supports WBAI against Pacifica board
Jan 17 2001, From NISPOP |
Pacifica Myths and Realities, the
official statement of KPFK
May 10 2001, From KPFK.org |
Real
Audio: Scott Harris interviews WBAI's interim station manager Utrice Leid and
Pacifica Foundation board member Leslie Cagan. Listen here. (Get
RealPlayer free here.)
Jan 12 2001, From Between The Lines |
Pacifica Backs Off Threat to Sue Critics' Web Sites
May 10 2001, From Public Citizen |
Protesters challenge
Pacifica Foundation over changes at WBAI
Jan 7 2001, From Black World Today |
Congressional Progressive Caucus to host Pacifica hearings
May 6 2001, From SavePacifica |
Firings lead to protests at WBAI, Pacifica news host Juan Gonzalez reports
Dec 29 2000, From New York Daily News |
New York City Council considers WBAI resolution (text of resolution here)
May 3 2001, From New York Daily News
via SavePacifica |
Real
Audio: Interim General
Manager Utrice Leid interviews Pacifica Executive Director Bessie Wash (Get
RealPlayer free here.)
Dec 26 2000, From A-Infos Radio Project |
The battle
over Pacifica's journalism might kill the only progressive U.S. radio network.
Apr 11 2001, The Westchester Weekly |
News Dissector:
Saving Amy: "The Exception To The Rulers"
Oct 25 2000, From MediaChannel |
Pacifica and WBAI management respond to critics
Apr 5 2001, From Pacifica |
Real
Audio: Looking back: Live
recording of the 1977 transmitter take over by WBAI staff (Get
RealPlayer free here.)
From A-Infos Radio Project |
U.S. Congressman compares
WBAI management to "tyrants"
Mar 30 2001, From The Village Voice |
What's going on at
Pacifica? A special report
May 1 2000, From The Nation |
Real
Audio: Inside
The Pacifica Struggle: A Debate Between Pacifica Board Member John Murdock And Former
Democracy Now Co-Host Juan Gonzalez (Get RealPlayer free here.)
Mar 16 2001, From Pacifica's "Democracy Now" program |
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Writers' Digital Rights |
Writers beat publishers: The Supreme Court rules
Jun 25 2001, From The Industry Standard |
New York Times case an
odd choice for Supreme Court
Mar 27 2001, From The Industry Standard |
It's up to the court: A freelancer watches
Tasini vs. The New York Times
Apr 2 2001, From The MediaChannel Forum |
Songwriters get
royalties, why shouldn't journalists?
Mar 26 2001, From The Guardian |
Court case
could set standards for copyright in the digital age
Mar 30 2001, From Wired |
National Writers' Union
case against The New York Times
Mar 14 2001, From National Writers'
Union |
Debate:
National Writers' Union's Jonathan Tasini and NY Times lawyer Bruce Keller
(transcript, video and audio)
Mar 27 2001, From PBS Newshour |
Freelancers versus The Boston Globe
Feb 9 2001, From Boston Globe
Freelancers Association |
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AOL-Time
Warner Merger |
Full coverage from U.S. news and business
papers
From IWantMedia.com |
FTC gives companies three
weeks to address regulators demands
Nov 10 2000, From MediaGuardian |
Newsstand or publisher? Merger raises ethics concerns
Feb 21 2001, From BusinessWeek |
How broadband cable
— like Time Warner — can limit, control and monopolize the Net
Nov 1 2000, From Village Voice |
Open access advocates see merger conditions
as victory
Dec 19 2000, From Alternet |
AOL makes big play in
Spanish market
Oct 24 2000, From MediaGuardian |
Regulators were right to
get involved in merger
Dec 18 2000, From Christian Science
Monitor |
AOL revenues beat
estimates
Oct 19 2000, From MediaGuardian |
Colin
Powell is AOL board member and shareholder; his son, FCC Commission member Michael Powell,
is Bush's likely pick for
FCC head.
Dec 15 2000, From Pop Politics |
Citizen activism and regulations might weaken
the AOL Time Warner giant
Oct 6 2000, From Alternet |
SatireWire:
Americans don't care about mega-merger
Dec 14 2000, From SatireWire |
Beware the digital
landlords! Protect open access
Sep 19 2000, From TomPaine |
Advocacy group applauds
FTC merger conditions and urges further moves to protect open Net access
Dec 14 2000, From Center for Media
Education |
AOL, Time Warner
shareholders get bogus invite to stop the wedding
June 21 2000, From Feed |
Federal Trade Commission
approves merger — with conditions
Dec 14 2000, From FTC press release |
Press should fear, not
fawn over, the new "Death Star"
May 19 2000, From Freedom Forum |
AOL-Time Warner merger
threatens civic and public-interest sectors of the Net
Dec 13 2000, From Center for Media
Education |
Special Report:
The Deal of the Century
Jan 26 2000, From MediaChannel |
Merger deplored by
cyber-culture literati
Nov 19 2000, From Disinformation |
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Serbian Media |
Full coverage of media
stories from the Serbian press
From Media Center, Belgrade |
Harrassment of
independent media continues, says CPJ
Dec
7 2000, From Committee to Protect Journalists |
Serbia's post-revolution
journalism growing pains
Apr
11 2001, From Christian Science Monitor |
Independent media association requests urgent
media regulation measures
Nov
28 2000, From Radio B92 |
Broadcasters to be shut down until new
government develops media policy
Mar
5 2001, From Media Center, Belgrade |
TV anchorwoman a "scapegoat" in
post-Milosovic purge
Nov 7 2000, From Transitions-Online |
Serbia's local newspapers feel abandoned and
endangered
Mar
5 2001, From Media Center, Belgrade |
Radio B92 seeks to annul contract, recover
equipment from Milosovic-tied TV company
Nov 5 2000, From Radio B92 |
Rebuilding Serbian media is a "jigsaw
puzzle" for media aid groups
Feb 16 2001, From Thomson Foundation |
TV series on history of media bias cancelled
by state TV; Journalists' group protests
Nov
2 2000, From Radio B92 |
Former head of state TV detained for
questioning about NATO attack
Feb
15 2001, From CNN |
Serbia's media begin
recovering from 13 years of conflict
Oct
31 2000, From Salon |
Serb Parliament to dismantle restrictive
press laws
Feb 15 2001, From Freedom Forum |
Radio-TV Serbia
management knew station was target, didn't pull workers
Oct 27 2000, From Guardian Unlimited |
Political and mafia pressure leads to
self-censorship in Kosovo
Feb 6 2001, From IWPR |
State-run media in
awkward transition
Oct 27 2000, From Freedom Forum |
New government should investigate private
media made rich under Milosevic
Feb 1 2001, From Media Center, Belgrade |
Freed journalist Miroslav Filipovic comments
on his imprisonment and release
Oct 13 2000, From IWPR |
Independent media group concerned about new
threats against journalists
Jan
31 2001, From Radio B92 |
State and independent
media side with new regime
Oct
6 2000, From Media Center, Belgrade |
Report finds media bias
and unprofessionalism continue, warns of lack of diversity among newspapers
Jan 4 2001, From Media Center, Belgrade |
State media workers join rebellion against
Milosovic regime
Oct
5 2000, From IWPR |
Press showing bias
against ousted regime: Weekly Media Monitoring
From Media Center, Belgrade |
Special Background Report:
Serbia's Media War
Feb
22 2000, From MediaChannel |
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U.S. Election Coverage:
The Media Recount |
Media outlets' number-crunching will lead to
different results depending on who's counting what
Mar 19 2001, From The Nation |
Newspaper's recount finds
Gore advantage by counting ignored ballots; politicians' and media's
"chad" focus has been misguided
Dec 28 2000, From Slate |
Miami newspaper
says "undervotes" in Miami-Dade show Bush win
Feb 26 2001, Miami Herald |
Media Recount
"Thickens Pall Of Illegitimacy" Over Bush
Dec 24 2000, From The Guardian
Unlimited |
Newspaper counts show
Gore won Florida
Feb 7 2001, From In These Times |
Republican representative denounces media review of ballots
Dec 20 2000, From LA Times |
Miami
Herald sues for access to Duval county ballots
Feb 2 2001, From Miami Herald |
Exclusive:
How the Networks Got It Wrong
Dec 20 2000, From MediaChannel |
Florida vote recounts by
newspapers show Gore as true winner
Jan 29 2001, From The Guardian
Unlimited |
Media groups begin counting ballots
Dec 18 2000, From CNN |
One reporter's count shows minute lead for
Gore but proves manual recount would have been possible
Jan 29 2001, From The Nation |
Recount by the press
is journalistic hubris, warns John Fund
Dec 15 2000, From Opinion Journal (Wall
Street Journal) |
Miami Herald should count "overvotes" not just
"undervotes"
Jan 18 2001, From Slate |
Media outlets go to court to seek access to ballots
Dec 14 2000, From The Miami Herald |
Media begin recounting
Palm Beach ballots
Jan 2 2001, From The Guardian Unlimited |
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U.S. Election Coverage |
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Pressure to compete leads
to media errors
Dec 1 2000, From Le Monde Diplomatique |
The election story never
told: Greg Palast reports on the cover-up
Mar 12 2001, MediaChannel exclusive |
Campaign and Election Monitoring:
TV network, newsmagazine and newsgroup coverage from February to November 2000. Nov 17 Report, Archive.
Exclusive: From Media Tenor. |
Covering new election
technology a challenge for journalists
Mar 12 2001, From American Prospect |
Protesters know TV loves
good visuals
Nov 30 2000, From Pop Politics |
Reporters practiced
"reckless journalism" says panel
Feb 16 2001, Freedom Forum |
FCC
asked to investigate networks' election-night calls
Nov 29 2000, From Reuters/Excite |
U.S. network heads
testify on plans to improve election-night coverage
Feb 14 2001, From Nando Times |
Media go pro-Bush to make premature election
call come true
Nov 28 2000, From The Nation |
TV failed election coverage tests, says survey
Feb 6 2001, From Annenberg Center |
Networks are winners of
extended election
Nov 27 2000, From The Independent |
CNN's report called its coverage "debacle"
Feb 6 2001, From The Financial Times
(Click
here to download full report in PDF format) |
Networks should reject
Congressional hearings on election night coverage
Nov 22 2000, From Freedom Forum |
Story Of Florida Voter Fraud That U.S. Media
Ignored
Feb 5 2001, From The Nation |
Assessing online
coverage: How dot-coms fared on election night
From Poynter Institute |
CNN will no longer use exit polls, won't call states early
Feb 2 2001, From CNN |
Don Hewitt, "60
Minutes" producer, attacks network news anchors
Nov 17 2000, From MediaGuardian |
Anchor Tom Brokaw denies
pro-Gore bias
Jan 4 2001, From TV Rundown |
Finnish journalist "treated like
dirt" trying to cover elections
Nov 17 2000, From MediaChannel's Forum |
U.S. Election Coverage in Singapore [PDF
file]
December 2000, From Ian Gordon and Ryan
Bishop |
News Dissector:
Worldwide voices ridicule U.S. election night gaffes
Nov 15 2000, From MediaChannel |
John Pilger: The U.S.
media cover up corruption to serve patriotic myths.
Dec 22 2000, From JohnPilger.com |
Media mag asks news
directors to accept election coverage reform
Nov 13 2000, From Brill's Content |
Press getting cold shoulder from Bush camp
Dec 18 2000, From Washington Post |
House investigating
influence of media's premature calls
Nov 10 2000, From Freedom Forum |
What's to blame for the
election night disaster? The 24-hour news cycle.
Dec 18 2000, From The American Prospect |
Web new sites failed on election
night
Nov 10 2000, From Online Journalism
Review |
Newscasters
should have taken time to understand Supreme Court decision
Dec 14 2000, From USA Today |
Not the first time press
has botched election coverage
Nov 10 2000, From Freedom Forum |
News Dissector:
Media missed the important stories in election
Dec 14 2000, From MediaChannel |
Mistakes are made because
of — not despite — technology
Nov 9 2000, From The Age |
Media's self-absorbtion is reprehensible
Dec 14 2000, From MediaChannel's Forum |
Did networks influence voting?
Nov 9 2000, From Financial Times |
Public should be outraged
at TV networks election night coverage
Dec 12 2000, From Christian Science
Monitor |
Apologies won't do for
arrogant media
Nov 9 2000, From FAIR |
Walter Cronkite would
have called Florida, too
Dec 12 2000, From Freedom Forum |
Botched election coverage
proves the dangerous power of the press
Nov 8 2000, Panafrican News Agency |
Media helping Bush to steal election, says Dan Kennedy
Dec 11 2000, From Boston Phoenix |
Dan Rather's mixed
metaphors
Nov 8 2000, From Salon |
After election
night, majority of Americans distrust media
Dec 11 2000, From The New York Times
(registration req.) |
Journalists, not
candidates, fill air time as soundbites shrink
Oct 30 2000, From Center for Media and
Public Affairs |
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