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Manila Mess
Joseph Estrada, the former film actor and newly ousted Philippine president, preferred drinking, gambling, womanizing and corruption to administering his country. Unfortunately, the Filipino press ignored it for too long.
From Asia Pacific Media Network, 20 January 2001.
> also about: Philippines, Asia and the Pacific, Politics

The Media Schmooze
If everyone in the media has a lot to say, asks News Dissector Danny Schechter, why is public media discourse so often disconnected from real world concerns?
From The Media Channel, 6 December 2000.
> also about: Business, Cultural Impacts

Ukrainian Mystery
The disappearance of a muckraking journalist has brought on a national crisis that implicates the president, his chief of staff and the minister of internal affairs, writes Roman Didenko.
From Central Europe Review, 1 December 2000.
> also about: Ukraine, Diversity, Freedom of Expression, Politics

Concentration or Conspiracy?
When News Dissector Danny Schechter brought a critique of the corporatization of news to the annual News World Global News Forum in Spain, some of his colleagues denounced his critique as conspiracy mongering.
From The Media Channel, 22 November 2000.
> also about: Advertising/Commerce, Business

Election 2000: The Consultants' Campaign
The Gore/Bush contest was a badly scripted reality show, writes Robin Andersen. It was process as politics with the news media crying, "Let the best marketing team win!"
From The Media Channel, 8 November 2000.
> also about: United States, News Coverage, Politics

Election 2000: The Consultants' Campaign
The Gore/Bush contest was a badly scripted reality show, writes Robin Andersen. It was process as politics with the news media crying, "Let the best marketing team win!"
From The Media Channel, 8 November 2000.
> also about: United States, Advertising/Commerce, Audience, Cultural Impacts, News Coverage, Politics Technology

Media Policy: Where The Candidates Stand
MediaChannel affiliates tell you where the presidential candidates stand on media policy, as mega-mergers and the digital revolution raise new questions about the future of communication and information.
From The Media Channel, 1 November 2000.
> also about: United States, Business, Policy/Law Politics

Cutting Edge Comedy
The antics of cult political comedian and de facto investigative journalist Mark Thomas have riled corporations, the military and government institutions in Britain, reports Nick Ryan.
From Geographical., 1 November 2000.
> also about: United Kingdom, Activism, Politics Television

The "Debates": A Farce In Three Rounds
This year's tedious U.S. presidential debates were no more about entertainment than they were about democracy, write Todd Gitlin, Susie Linfield, Ellen Willis and others in the New York Media Circle.
From The Media Channel, 25 October 2000.
> also about: United States, Audience, Cultural Impacts, News Coverage, Politics Television

Censorship Cinema
The film "The Insider" showed U.S. journalism in sorry form, but the real-life reporter whose story the film chronicles says U.K. journalism is even worse off. Duncan Campbell profiles Lowell Bergman.
From Guardian Unlimited, 16 October 2000.
> also about: United Kingdom, News Coverage, Film Television

People's Poet Seeks Justice
Imprisoned and abused long after apartheid ended, South African antiapartheid musician and poet Mzwakhe Mbuli may finally see freedom. Plus: Listen to Mbuli's song "What is Freedom (And What is the Meaning of Freedom)." (RealAudio)
From Green Left Weekly, 11 October 2000.
> also about: South Africa, Freedom of Expression, Music

Muckraking In Kyrgyzstan
The fall of the Soviet Union brought a free press to Kyrgyzstan. But when Zamira Sydykova started an independent newspaper, she had to face the terrible limits of that freedom.
From International Women's Media Foundation, 1 October 2000.
> also about: Kyrgyzstan, Freedom of Expression, Politics Newspapers

Missing Carl Rowan
From the urban ghetto to the American black-college frat house, the words "Rowan Report" cued expectations of unpredictable journalism. Rowan's recent death, says Herb Boyd, triggers a sense of loss.
From The Black World Today, 28 September 2000.
> also about: Diversity, Radio

Pollack Jokes
Neal Pollack, who has been referred to as "hip guy du jour ," is bringing his literary chops to the unconventional publishing company du jour , McSweeny's. Chris Wright wonders what this means — and asks some silly questions.
From Boston Phoenix, 21 September 2000.
> also about: Business, Books

I Wish I Were An Expletive
When a journalist was recently called a "major league asshole" by a presidential candidate, it prompted News Dissector Danny Schechter to muse about what's behind the Republicans' hatred of the "liberal media."
From The Media Channel, 20 September 2000.
> also about: United States, Credibility/Accuracy, News Coverage, Politics

 




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