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Election Fraud Redux
The conservative media tilt has become a dominant reality in U.S. politics, says Robert Parry.
Are recent New York Times revelations about the 2000 election debacle too little too late?
Also: Did media
ignore anti-Bush protesters ? (See our archived stories on U.S. Election Coverage .)
From The Media Consortium, 16 July 2001.
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United States,
News Coverage,
Politics
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The Media's Intern Affair
Norman Solomon maintains that the Condit-Levy scandal has
zero public
Importance . David Corn
half agrees . But Matt Welch believes journalists covering the story are
doing their job .
And Geoffrey Wheatcroft thinks the press should be
more prying .
Plus: Katie Davis urges cameras to
use a wider lens (RealAudio).
From FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting), 12 July 2001.
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African Women Fight Press Brutality
Southern African media systemically ignore or victimize women, argues a persuasive and practical guide to changing the system.
From allAfrica.com, 9 July 2001.
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(Un)Covering Tibet
How does news get in and out of a region where radio signals are jammed and speaking to reporters can be a crime? World Tibet day is July 7; read this roundtable discussion with journalists and activists.
From The Media Channel, 4 July 2001.
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Asia and the Pacific,
Access,
Freedom of Expression,
News Coverage,
Policy/Law,
Politics,
Newspapers
Radio
Fox Hunting
Rupert Murdoch's Fox News cable channel is "The Most Biased Name in News," claims a new report, which targets a show whose political guests are almost all white, male and Republican.
From FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting), 2 July 2001.
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ABC News Versus The Greens
ABC's John Stossel, who had to apologize last year for an erroneous report attacking organic foods,
has been caught again, this time manipulating kids into attacking environmental education, writes Marianne Manilov.
Science teacher John F. Borowski continues his
Stossel-watch in the
MediaChannel Forum; also see FAIR's "
Stossel Beat ."
From TomPaine.com, 26 June 2001.
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Children,
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Television
Iraq: Beyond Propaganda
Has demonizing Saddam Hussein helped keep Western journalists away from the humanitarian crisis in Iraq? Senior U.S. and U.K. journalists discuss the urgent need to avoid polarization and report critically.
From Reporting the World, 20 June 2001.
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Politricks At PBS?
A new report finds that the U.S. public TV network breaks its own rules to give access to conservatives and the organized political right while liberal voices are held to stricter standards.
From Media Transparency, 1 June 2001.
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Condemning India's Corporate Press
South Asia has half the world's hungry people — and a food surplus. The Indian media ignore both. How dare the press cover fashion and business but not poverty and starvation, demands journalist P. Sainath.
From The UNESCO Courier, 1 June 2001.
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Bombing "Pearl Harbor"
Bombastic, patriotic and irony-impaired, Disney's expensively hyped "Pearl Harbor" has more in common
with World War II-era Japanese propaganda films than with traditional Hollywood war movies, says
Ian Buruma. And Asian-Americans may be right to
fear a backlash .
From Guardian Unlimited, 28 May 2001.
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United States,
North America,
Asia and the Pacific,
Audience,
Cultural Impacts
Film
Bushwhacking
One of the several reasons President Bush gets hands-off treatment from reporters, says Dan Kennedy, is that "his thuggish team threatens to make life difficult for reporters who step out of line."
From Boston Phoenix, 24 May 2001.
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The Movie Critic's Role
Critics can put films into their historical, social and political
contexts, says David A. Markiewicz, possibly improving the form.
Critical acclaim may have another effect: A study
suggests that Oscar-winning actors live 3.9 years longer than their
un-honored peers.
From American Journalism Review, 22 May 2001.
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Film
Foundations (Under)Write The News
The potential influence of the millions of dollars that foundations pour
into news organizations — and the agendas behind them — are
rarely discussed.
From The Poynter Institute, 21 May 2001.
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North America,
Freedom of Expression,
News Coverage
Public Broadcasting
Daily News, Eternal Stories
Examining the "mythological role of journalism," Jack Lule uncovers seven myths that shape our thinking. In this excerpt, he uses
the example of Haiti to explain the unconscious racism of the American press.
To
buy this book and other media books visit the
Book Corner (purchases help support MediaChannel).
From The Media Channel, 16 May 2001.
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United States,
Latin America & Caribbean,
Cultural Impacts,
News Coverage,
Technology
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The Frequency Of Dan Rather
Dan Rather was both energized and discomfited by the "60 Minutes" story exposing Senator John Kerrey's alleged war atrocities. The reporter-cum-anchor enthuses over the possibility of a CNN-CBS partnership and frets about journalism to Jason Gay.
From The New York Observer, 14 May 2001.
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