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Iraq War at 4: Still not ready for primetime
Posted by Brian Lowry on 21 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: News, IQ
By Brian Lowry, Variety
This week’s programming barrage marking the fourth anniversary of the U.S. adventure in Iraq provides an inadvertent referendum on broadcast news, reflecting what has become the “not ready for primetime” war.
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Hometown Baghdad
Posted by MediaChannel on 20 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: VIDEO, IQ
The everyday life of the Iraqi citizen has been the great untold story of the Iraq war. Hometown Baghdad is hoping to change that by creating this new documentary web series following the lives of a few Iraqi 20-somethings trying to survive in Baghdad. In these videos, brave Iraqi subjects and crew […]
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Iraq: Why Won’t MoveOn Move Forward?
Posted by PR Watch on 20 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: News, IQ
By Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber
MoveOn’s organizing around Iraq has become notably ambiguous lately. Although it talks in general terms about bringing the troops home, specific timetables or meaningful steps in that direction are not discussed.
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153 journalists killed in four years in Iraq
Posted by Reporters Without Borders on 19 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: News, IQ, Media Freedom
By Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders 153 activists and volunteers at the Human Rights Square in Paris today to represent the 153 journalists and media assistants killed in Iraq since the start of the war.
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Voices From Iraq 2007: Ebbing Hope in a Landscape of Loss
Posted by ABC News on 19 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: News, IQ
By Gary Langer, ABC News
New national survey paints a devastating portrait of life in Iraq: widespread violence, torn lives, displaced families, emotional damage, collapsing services, an ever starker sectarian chasm - and a draining away of the underlying optimism that once prevailed.
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There’s A War Goin’ On Outside
Posted by MediaChannel on 08 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: US, VIDEO, IQ, War Watch
Iraqi voices are conspicuous by their absence on TV News. So an Iraqi-Amercan rapper has created a powerful music video to offer a view mostly missing in the US media.
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Cheney Bombs in Afghanistan, America
Posted by MediaChannel on 01 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, US, IQ, Free Speech, Ethics, AF, Cheney
The secretive and sometimes not-so-secretive Vice President has a complicated relationship with the media and foreign leaders alike.
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Is the Media “Slowly Bleeding” Congressional Plans To Withdraw From Iraq?
Posted by D. J. Waletzky on 27 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, Bias, US, IQ, War Watch
“Cut and run” morphs into “slow-bleed” as the epithet du jour for anti-war politicians. Will the voice of the American people ever be heard above the partisan media-fueled din?
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Bob Woodruff Reports His Own Brain Injury Saga in Iraq
Posted by MediaChannel on 27 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, CBS, US, IQ, Pentagon, Politics, Ethics
The ABC News reporter tells the story of his own recovery from an Iraqi insurgent attack a little over a year ago.
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Is Lt. Watada an Isolated Case of Military Dissent?
Posted by Sarah Olson on 27 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Media Savvy, US, IQ, Free Speech, Commentary, Pentagon, Ethics
Sarah Olson, the subpoenaed journalist who refused to testify in Lt. Watada’s court-martial case, files an exclusive report for MediaChannel asking, “what do we lose when we allow the systematic exclusion of soldier’s voices?”
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Clinton and Obama Have Their First Tiff–And the Press Eats It Up
Posted by MediaChannel on 23 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, US, IQ, Obama, Hillary
Obama and Clinton tangle, while the media get all caught up in the first internecine Democratic spat. Shall we call it “Sorrygate?”
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Afghanistan: Forgotten War, Forgotten Women
Posted by D. J. Waletzky on 06 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, IQ, Politics, PK, Ethics, AF
Are the women of Afghanistan more than pawns in a rhetorical game? What has the Us-led invasion done for their plight?
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Controversy Surrounds Lara Logan’s Haifa Street Report
Posted by MediaChannel on 02 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, Bias, US, IQ, Blogs, Politics, Ethics
MediaChannel gets in the Associated Press, as the Battle for Haifa Street has become a blogosphere battle between left and right, with CBS News in the middle.
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Outrage: Yet Another Surge
Posted by Col. Sam Gardiner, USAF (Ret) on 29 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: US, Bush, IQ, Commentary, Pentagon, Politics, NK, IR, Ethics
Not only does it look as if there are military preparations for striking Iran, it looks as if the White House is doing public opinion preparations for a strike on Iran. Three items stand out this week.
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No Substitute for Free and Unfettered News Gathering
Posted by Phil Donahue on 26 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: IQ, Free Speech, Commentary, Pentagon, Ethics
The former talk show host makes an impassioned plea for reason in the Sarah Olson/Ehren Watada case.
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