News - Media - Analysis and Opinion
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Extra!
- From Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, includes commentary, issues of special concern, archives, a listserv and contact information.
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The People and the Press
- From the Pew Research Center, includes mission statement, commentary, current and archived survey reports, references to the organization in the press, poll results from other groups and contact information.
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Mitchell Stephens
- Commentary from Mitchell Stephens.
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Investigative Report: Off The Record
- From the Center for Public Integrity, a publication in PDF format about broadcasting corporations and their legislative agendas.
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Criticism.Com
- Essays, book reviews, bookstore, articles on communications theory, social science, discourse analysis, philosophy, linguistics, and psychoanalysis.
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Media File
- A nonprofit resource and training center. About the organization, history, news, commentary, recommended links, archives, class schedules, how to become a member, special events and contact information.
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BraveNews World
- Includes commentary, cultural studies, features, a library, archives, resources and features.
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Media Visions Webzine
- An online journal from Ken Freed; includes essays, audio interviews and talks, guest commentary, books for sale and recommend links.
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ConWebWatch
- From Terry Krepel, a watchdog of conservative Internet news sources. About the site, criticism, reader letters, archives, links and books for sale.
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Number Watch
- From John Brignell, how statistics are altered to convey ideas. Numbers of the month, book reviews, commentary and contact information.
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Media -- NewCity.com
- Commentary from an online journal.
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Media Research Center Home Page
- From a conservative watchdog group, includes their goals, alerts, reports, columns, topics of special interest, resources, studies, personalities and contact information.
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The Rittenhouse Review
- Includes links to foreign policy articles and commentary about them, contact information and links to online publiications.
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News Freedom
- Daily commentary and recommended links.
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Become The Media
- Includes analysis of breaking stories and recommended links.
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Smarter Times
- A daily critique of The New York Times.
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David Lieberman
- USA Today media columnist.
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Mark Jurkowitz
- Boston Globe media columnist
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Howard Kurtz
- Washington Post media columnist
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Jim Romenesko
- Commentaries and news about the media and news business, and links to other sources.
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Danny Schector
- Danny Schechter, media activist also known as "the News Dissector," uses his scalpel on media malfeasance in this weekly column.
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Norman Solomon
- Hard-hitting columnist with progressive criticism of the media.
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Off the Record
- Media news and commentary from The New York Observer
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Brent Bozell
- Conservative critic of the media.
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Dan Kennedy's Media Files
- Current and archived media columns by senior writer/media critic for the Boston Phoenix newspaper.
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Tough Chat
- Commentary contending that liberals aren't as visible and efffective on TV talk shows as conservatives, because of the complexity of liberal positions. Joshua Micah Marshall, The American Prospect
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The Television Thing
- This article summarizes The Sound Bite Society, a study of television and ideology. (Dissent Summer 1995) By Jeffery Scheuer
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Hold On to Your Phone Bill -- It's Merger Time
- Commentary on lack of FCC concern about the effects of consolidation of telephone and broadcasting services on consumer interests and democracy. From Mother Jones.
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Necessary Illusions -- Online Book by Noam Chmosky
- Commentaries contend the "free press" serves the needs of those in power, rather than free speech and democracy.
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Meditations on Media -- Jane W. Prettyman
- An independent critique of commercial media's effects on democracy and society by editor of the Real News Pages website.
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Chris's News and Views
- Media analysis and criticism from a former TV news anchor, reporter and meteorologist. Also includes links to media research groups and organizations committed to creating a more democratic, citzen-based media environment.
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Bloodbath in the District of Columbia
- An essay from UnquietMind.com about the destructiveness of the Washington scandal culture.
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Tabloids, Talk Radio, and the Future of News
- Technology's Impact on Journalism by Annenberg Senior Fellow Ellen Hume
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The End of Public Television? The Trouble with Teletubbies
- Article critical of PBS as having lost its public service mandate because of its reliance on corporate funding. Uses children's programming as an example. By Susan E. Linn and Alvin F. Poussaint from The American Prospect.
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Proposal for the Public Media
- Article proposing voluntary tax check-off to fund non-corporate, public service media. From Fear and Favor website. By Randy Baker.
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Consent, American Style
- Analysis and commentary by Steve Mizrach about manipulation of the public through the media. Based on views of Michael Parenti, Noam Chomsky, and Ben Bagdikian.
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McChesney's
- Article that critcizes the effect of commercial corporate media on society, and that calls for reform that brings diversity of ownership and access. By Robert McChesney from The Boston Review.
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Ben Bagdikian Interview
- Interview with media analyst about effect of corporate media ownership, using tobacco issue as example. From PBS Frontline.
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A New Years's Resolution For The Right
- Conservative commentators Brent Bozell and Michael Medved contend that a challenge for the right is overcoming the fact that television's emotional nature inherently favors liberals rather than the logic of conservatism.
