By Reporters Without Borders At least 14 websites that defend women’s rights were blocked by Iranian authorities.

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By Adam Reilly, Boston Phoenix Why isn’t the press paying more attention to a possible attack on Iran?

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The media in Iran has been increasingly stifled under President Ahmadinejad. Newspapers have been shut down and journalists intimidated. Many in the media had been hoping a resurgence of the Reformists in Friday’s polls would see restrictions relaxed. But as Alireza Ronaghi reports from Tehran, that’s now looking unlikely.

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How the Media is Selling Us Another War

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By Norman Solomon, MediaChannel Every once in a while, I imagine what it might be like if news outlets were candid and leveled with media consumers instead of the usual circuitous route of pretense and distortion. What media scenes would we like to see?

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By Media Matters Robert D. Novak writes in his forthcoming memoir, The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington, Secretary of State Richard Armitage revealed the identity of former CIA operative Valerie Plame, contending that the exchange over Plame’s identity “lasted no more than sixty seconds.”

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By Robert Dreyfuss, Nieman Watchdog The conventional media narrative about Iraqi politics misses all sorts of hugely important factors. Robert Dreyfuss raises some provocative questions journalists should be asking about motivations, alliances - and whether the U.S. is backing all the wrong people.

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By David Zurawik, Baltimore Sun For more than two decades, discussions of TV news have been dominated by a discourse of decline. But for all the talk of dinosaurs and audience erosion, major TV news programs have found new life on computer screens, iPods and cell phones during the past year.

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By Columbia Journalism Review Every March since the war in Iraq began, the Foreign Service Journal has examined the state of diplomacy and nation-building in Iraq. One thing is apparent: the press has largely ignored an important story about the consequences for thousands of civilian foreign service employees of the administration’s disastrous war.

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Reuters Iran launched an English-language satellite television channel on Monday saying it was seeking to redress the balance of world news coverage which was now in the grip of the West.

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By OhMyNews It’s been 4 years since the U.S. government used the press to create the “spin” that provided a pretext for the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. The U.S. government accused Iraq of having “Weapons of Mass Destruction.” How could Iraq prove they didn’t have any?

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By Niqash How do journalists define and enforce “impartiality” and “diversity of opinion” in a country where all media is partisan, most are connected to a political party, and none have - so far - bothered to obtain a license?

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This is a true story made by Iraqi radio journalist Zainab from Al Najaf. In this video she documents the story of her close friend who was kidnapped by militias when they saw him carrying a camera and a gun.

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Not counted among the US soldiers “surging” in Iraq are the hired killers of Blackwater USA, the right-wing mercenaries who do the dirty work of assassination and protection for the US as Jeremy Scahill describes in his new book. This video captures them “in action.”

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Bill Moyers: Neocons Takeover the MediaIn this excerpt from Buying the War Bill Moyers discusses the Neocon takeover of the media during the run-up to the Iraq War. You can watch the whole show online here.

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