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Grand Theft Digital: How Corporate Broadcasters Will Hijack Digital TV
Posted by Black Agenda Report on 11 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Ownership, Commentary, Policy
If a nationwide movement for media justice really exists, it must begin to expose the privatization of the public airwaves hidden in plain sight under the guise of the “transition” from analog to digital TV.
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Needed: A National Conference On Economic Reform
Posted by Danny Schechter on 09 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Commentary, Agenda Cutting
Media Tenor: No Media Dream Team So Far
Posted by Media Tenor on 07 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Commentary, Media Analysis
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When Journalists Hate Journalism…
Posted by Online Journalism REview on 05 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Commentary, Journalism
Many journalists despise TV news. They hate watching it, they hate producing it, and, given the opportunity, they turn it off and ignore it.
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Media Critics With A Goal In Mind
Posted by Nieman Watchdog on 04 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Commentary, Policy
The Free Press media reform group, holding its annual convention in Minneapolis this weekend, has corporate control of news organizations as a main target.
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Press Freedom World Review, November 2007 - June 2008
Posted by World Association of Newspapers on 03 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Commentary, Media Freedom
Press freedom is under serious threat from many sources — gangs and corrupt officials in Latin America, autocratic regimes in the Middle East, conflicts in Africa, hostile governments in Asia, and from death threats and prosecutions in central Asia and Europe.
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McClellan Missile: Media Crimes As War Crimes
Posted by Danny Schechter on 02 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Commentary, Iraq War
Media Tenor: McCain May Face Problems On Iraq Again
Posted by Media Tenor on 30 May 2008 | Tagged as: Commentary, Media Analysis
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Each Iraqi Channel Sings Its Own Tune
Posted by Niqash on 29 May 2008 | Tagged as: IQ, Commentary, Middle East
Media rhetoric differs from one Iraqi satellite station to the other and even sometimes within the same channel, making it difficult for the Iraqi audience to comprehend the channels’ logic.
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Ex-aide Scott McClellan Says Bush Misled the U.S. on War
Posted by Seattle Times on 28 May 2008 | Tagged as: Commentary
Former White House press secretary McClellan writes that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated “political propaganda campaign” led by President Bush.
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In the Shadow of the Wizard of Oz: Home Sweet Home
Posted by Danny Schechter on 27 May 2008 | Tagged as: Commentary, Economics
Media Tenor: Obama Under Scrutiny
Posted by Media Tenor on 23 May 2008 | Tagged as: Commentary, Media Analysis
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The Ho-Hum Obama Revolution
Posted by Huffington Post on 22 May 2008 | Tagged as: Commentary, Politics, Obama
There is something extraordinary occurring in American politics, and the nonchalant media coverage of a seismic event, such as what happened in Portland, ought not to mask that.
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Karl Rove’s Pundit Problem
Posted by Media Matters on 21 May 2008 | Tagged as: Fox News, Commentary, Karl Rove
Why is TV’s newest talking head being held up as a paragon of political analysis at the very moment the Republican president he helped mold is in complete free fall?
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CJR Video: Covering Climate
Posted by Columbia Journalism Review on 20 May 2008 | Tagged as: Commentary, Environment, Journalism
