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• Who's Behind the Attack on Liberal Professors? --by Dave Johnson "In a recent article on HNN Professors Eric Foner and Glenda Gilmore worry that academic freedom is being eroded. While they address the McCarthyite tactics of the right, I think there may also be another interesting story here."

• "Borking" the Fairness Doctrine, (ME) On Line Journal, 08/03/01 - James Higdon chronicles the recent evolution of the FCC regulations on media monopolization.

• NBC Balks at Sharing Election Night Tapes Congressman threatens to seek subpoena for disclosure. Rumors say executive pushed for Bush call. read more

• A Simple Lesson in Logic -- by Thomas I. Ellis, Ph.D.
  
  
• Twenty-Five Rules of Disinformation - The Politicians Credo Recognize which rule of disinformation is being used against you…and call your assailant on it. Date: 07/15/98
  
  
• California parents attack ABC News special Demanding that their children be left out of the special, Tampering with Nature," set to air on Friday, the seven parents charged that they were duped into allowing their kids to be interviewed by Stossel and that he manipulated the youngsters into giving answers that supported his point of view.
  
  
• Scared Green How John Stossel, ABC, Rightwing Think Tanks and the Chemical Industry Are Colluding to Trash Environmental Education
  
  
• Baloney Detection Kit carlsagan.com
  
  
• NY Times Is Wrong on Civil Rights Commission
  
  
• Recycling Rhetoric: Media Coverage of the Bush Tax Cut
  
  
• White House Won't Issue Apology Asked about a letter signed by former Clinton aides seeking an apology, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said: "No apology is merited. They are well-advised to leave it alone." According to the Bushies, it's ok to trash someone's reputation.  No need to apologize for that!
  
  
• Propaganda 101-what the media whores can teach us about reading critically
  
  
• Campaign Lite Why reporters won't tell us what we need to know
  
  
• Critical thinking is anathema to the global corporatists
  
  
• F.C.C. Relaxes Network Ownership Rules
  
  
• The Assault on Science and the American Public by the Corporate Propaganda Machine PART I: The "Landmining" of the Web: The Internet Misinformation Campaign
  
  
• All the Views Fit to Print Richard Scaife, the billionaire provocateur who has famously funded conservative causes, has found another way to spread his message: By publishing an increasingly influential daily newspaper in Pittsburgh
  
  
• 51% of AMERICANS THINK... -- by Jane Wardlow Prettyman, about political polls
  
  
• Searching for the new jargon excellent article on understanding right wing propaganda tactics
  
  
• The Vast Right Wing Con Job
  
  
• Myth-ing In Action - The Media - "Al Gore and the Democrats did not run a bad campaign. The media ran a bad election. The Clintons are not corrupt. The media is corrupt. America has not lost its moral compass. The media has lost credibility.... In today's world, the news is big business and the media is giving America the business."
  
  
• This is a Propaganda War from the Right...
  and Americans Are Losing -- by Mike Hersh
  
  
• Corporate Influence in the Media
  
  
• Helen Thomas: Hot Off the Press The George Interview
  
  
• Something Borrowed, Something Blue Memo Enlists Lobbyists to Trade White Collars for Hard Hats at GOP Tax Cut Rally I'd call this a nonverbal lie!
  
  
• It's two sets of books, dummies! How they deceive you into thinking that the rich pay more than their share of taxes and the poor do not! -- by John Nagy
  
  
• Powell Jr Messes With Media
  
  
• At the White House, Parse-Fail Grading?
  
  
• U.S.-China Dispute: From Other Side of Media Window
  
  
• Laughing Sickness What makes this serious business is that for the last twenty or so years comedy has played an increasingly active role in our national politics. According to surveys, fully a third of Americans get their political information exclusively from the late night monologues of David Letterman and Jay Leno...
  
  
• A Jaundiced Look at Yellow Journalism
  A must read guide to evaluating the news.
  
  
• The real meaning of "The Emperor's New Clothes"

EXAMPLES

• Why Dan Rather and CBS Limited Coverage of Levy Case "Without passing judgment on anybody else," he said in an interview late on Friday, "I've tried to stand for what I believe in — decent, responsible journalism." He added: "When rumors, gossip, speculation and all this other stuff began swirling, and other people began reporting it — frequently, I'm sorry to say, reporting it as fact — my question always was, and continues to be, what do we know on the basis of our own reporting?"
  
  
• A Visit to Forget The real visitors to Fort McHenry were asked to leave so that Bush's canned photo op visitors would be all that were visible to the "news" cameras! July 18, 2001
  
  
• Media Deception & Iraq July 11, 2001
  
  
• Our current howler (part I): Mother Theresa We knew enough to check Sammon’s source. Free people should see what we found. At Any Cost Bill Sammon, Regnery Publishing, 2001 In Florida, Drawing The Battle Lines David Von Drehle, Ellen Nakashima, Susan Schmidt and Ceci Connolly, The Washington Post, 1/29/01
  
  
• White House Won't Issue Apology Asked about a letter signed by former Clinton aides seeking an apology, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said: "No apology is merited. They are well-advised to leave it alone." According to the Bushies, it's ok to trash someone's reputation. No need to apologize for that!
  
  
• "WHOOPS": How The Networks Got It Wrong Detailed investigative research on the influence of the Voters News Service on networks election night. 12/26/00
  
  
• MEDIAOCRACY 2000 -- HAIL TO THE THIEF This must-read electronic book review of MEDIAOCRACY 2000 -- HAIL TO THE THIEF outlines the media's role in the past election debacle with specific indictments.
  
  
• Thomas Book Author Says He Lied in His Attacks on Anita Hill NY Times, June 27, 2001
  
  
• STOSSEL REPRIMANDED BUT NOT FIRED Food Poisoning Tests Now Under Scrutiny - ABC Has No Data to Support Assertions About Dangers of Organic Food
  
  
• Who Got Trashed
  Being a journalist today means never having to say you're sorry
  
  
• The White House vandal scandal that wasn't How the incoming Bush team nudge-nudged a credulous press corps into swallowing a trashy Clinton story.
  
  
• The unexamined presidency
  
  
• Scared Green: How John Stossel, ABC, Rightwing Think Tanks and the Chemical Industry Are Colluding to Trash Environmental Education
  
  
• Smearing Kerrey
  
  
• Media Unconcerned as LAPD Attacks Peaceful Crowd, Harasses IMC
  
  
• Miami Herald Headline: Herald ballot review shows Bush retaining lead
  truth: if all the ballots are counted, Gore still wins.
  Read what Democrats.com has to say about this gross case of media bias.
  
  
• Another commentary on the above misleading headline.
  
  
• HOW THE MIAMI HERALD LIED ABOUT THEIR OWN RECOUNT -- by Paul Lukasiak
  
  
• Latest media recount effort only clouds the real issues in Florida balloting
  
  
• Once again, the media try to con the people into believing Bush won
  By Bev Conover
  April 5, 2001—With each little game the major media, with the exception of the Palm Beach Post, are playing with the Florida ballots in a feeble attempt to legitimize the illegitimate Bush administration, it becomes clearer and clearer, that, if one carefully reads what they are saying, Al Gore won the Sunshine State, was entitled to its 25 electoral votes and should be residing in the White House today.
  
  
• They're Lying about the estate tax
  
  
• Racism on Nightline: An Analysis of Nightline's Coverage of the Duval County Florida Election Controversy The ABC News Nightline show on "what happened in Duval County, Florida" during the Presidential election perpetuated negative stereotypes of African Americans and ignored the unequivocal evidence of systematic, deliberate disenfranchisement of African American voters. -- by Paul Lukasiak
  
  
• W's latest unjust reward
  
  
• Silence Of The Lambs: The Election Story Never Told, by Greg Palast
  
  
• Press Blows Florida -- Again Consortium
  
  
• Lies, Damn Lies by Jonathan Cohn
  
  Supposedly Liberal Media Distorts Greenspan's Testimony
  
  
• Testimony from Libby (Cheney's Chief of Staff) concerning President Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich.
  Why do you suppose the news media chose to bury this?
  
  
• Will there be standardized math tests for political reporters? The Columbus Dispatch in Columbus Ohio reported that 4 people showed up to protest Bush when he visited an elementary school here. I was there! The crowd was more like 40! To make matters worse, The associated press picked up the eronious story and blasted this untruth all over the country. Was this dishonest, or just sloppy reporting? The OSU Latern got it right. Maybe we should forget the corporate sponsored media. At least in this case, the college kids did a much more accurate and professional job!
  
  
• US Commissionon on Civil Rights Charges "Voter Disenfranchisement... at Heart" of Bush Victory in Florida
  
  
• This very important study was ignored by mainstream media. Why?
  
  
• ALSO
  
  
• Phony Numbers, Phony People Treasury Releases Reworked Numbers, Lobbyists Told Not To Dress Like Lobbyists, All To Hide The Truth About Bush Tax Cut
  
  
• Collective unconscious A stunning absence of outrage as Bush names Iran-Contra figures to two key diplomatic posts
  
  
• API story about Greenspan's visit to Gore's class is scrubbed of all reference to non-verbal communication between Gore and Greenspan which indicated their agreement about Bush's bad economic policies.
  
  
• Greenspan High-Fives Gore After Slap at Bush Tax Cut
  
  
• Why did the US media black out the Civil Rights Commission report on the Florida vote?
  
  
• US networks, Congress whitewash media role in 2000 election
  
  
• The Slumber Party
  
  
• Mangler-in-Chief
  
  
• CIA Boasts of Manipulating News
  
  
• The Pardons & the Press
  
  
• Monsanto and Fox: Partners in Censorship
  
  
• REPORTERS WIN LAWSUIT TO
  THWART FOX-TV COVER-UP
  
  
• Why are Journalists going easy on bush?
  
  
• Pitching Softballs: Why are journalists going easy on Bush?
  
  
• The media treats bush tenderly
  
  
• Gore's too-willing executioners The political press has been armed with plenty of attitude in taking on the vice president -- but not a lot of facts. -- by Eric Boehlert Oct. 27, 2000
  

EDITORIALS

• Knowledge is the path to regaining power The liberal media doesn't exist any more than "compassionate conservatism" or a "new tone of civility in Washington, DC." read more

• Why Bush is popular (not all That popular, but more than he should be given the circumstances.) Talk speaks louder than action read more

• Rightwing Talk Show Hosts Show True Colors In Face of Growing Public Disapproval Its terminal stages cause the same sort of behavior seen in rabid animals near the end: an increased frothing at the mouth and a tendency to stumble aimlessly in narrowing circles.
  
  
• James Higdon: 'The yellow wall of silence' I fear that I am no longer capable of even making a point. The behavior of the pundit "personalities" on cable, and much of the print media, most of television, and nearly all of radio, (the Washington press corps in general) are so pathetic, they are not worth the match it would take to set them afire. Does no one else feel this outrage? Will none but a few of us even speak to this issue? MORE July 21, 2001
  
  
• Parsing the New York Times Absentee Ballot Investigation Get ready for the Next Battle in the Republican Spin and Propaganda Exaggeration War (SPEW)
  
  
• The perils of pack opinionating
  
  
• Bush's free ride
  From the attack dogs of the Clinton era to the lap dogs of today, the White House press corps sure isn't what it used to be
  
  
• TV news goes easy on Bush
  By Joanne Ostrow
  Denver Post TV Critic
  
  
• Bias in the media- Boffo introduction
  
  
• Follow the money (Why the media hates Clinton/Gore and worhips the GOP)
  
  
• bush catches a washington break
  
  
• Press corp giving bush a free ride
  
  
• See, I Told You: The Conspiracy Lives! by Joe Conason
  
  
• A Quisling Press Corps
  By Robert Parry 'After years of denial, The Washington Post has acknowledged the existence of the Right-Wing Machine.'
  
  
• Bush's 100 by Conason
  
  
• Extra! Extra! Read Less About It The free press belongs to us all and not just to the few who own one
  
  
• Media Crucial As Bush Faces "Legitimacy Gap"
  
  
• All the White News That's Fit to Print Donna Ladd,
  
  
• THE POWER -- AND THE PRETENSE -- OF THE PRESS A reporter accesses the news media's role in the abuse of the political process
  
  
• Dizzy Centrifugal Forces An Unapologetic Rant
  
  
• The failures of the American press By Linda Stout Deak
  
  
• Questions the U.S. News Media Refuses to Ask about the Stolen Florida Election Bob Fertik
  
  
• Wanted: Real Politician Types Who Care About Us

• BUZZFLASH EXPOSES CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST ROBERT NOVAK
  
  
• What Freshly Censored Hell Is This?
  Keeping up with the Junta's Latest Atrocities... and the Mainstream Media's Enabling Thereof
  By Tamara Baker
  
  
• Conservatives keep pushing "big lie" (about the non-existent liberal press)
  
  
• THE MYTH OF THE LEFTIST MEDIA
  

DEDICATED SITES

• Republican Bias in the Media

• AMERICAN REVIEW A double-take on media & democracy -- Edited by Jane Wardlow Prettyman, formerly at (the old) Esquire Magazine
  
  
• Fair: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
  This organization has a great newsletter. They investigate inaccurate news reports and send their analysis out in this newsletter. Well worth signing up for!
  
  
• The Center for Media & Democracy
  
  
• Media Whores on-line
  

OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION

• Bush's Polls Are Much Worse than the Media Pretends

• Dream prize draws closer for Murdoch
  
  
• Media Ownership
  Columbia Journalism Review, who owns what.
  
  
• Dark Side of Rev. Moon, (owner of the Washington Times)
  
  
• Report Accuses TV Stations of Raising Prices of Political Ads
  
  
• Giving away the store
  Control of the FCC. This article is down at the bottom of the page.
  
  
• Spokesman says Bush won't conduct formal news conferences
  
  
• Publisher Who Resigned Urges Editors to Put Readers First
  
  
• On March 23, 2001, KPFT general manager Garland Ganter assaulted Edwin Johnston at a protest at KPFT in Houston. Johnston was also assaulted by a KPFT volunteer. Ganter's wife, Molly O'Brien, who is on KPFT staff, assaulted protestor Sheila Harris. Both Ganter and O'Brien gave false reports to police and Johnston was arrested and jailed on two counts of assault.

ACTIONS

• Join "Fair" in protesting John Stossel's deceptive tacktics.
  
  
• ACTION: Please contact USA Today and let them know that concealing the full statewide results of its investigation of undervotes was a disservice to readers .
  
  
• CLG Founder Mike Rectenwald's letter to Nightline's Ted Koppel
  
  
• Reassigning Tim Russert
  How To Get Washington Reporters to Cover Things That Count
  
  
• Write to your local paper and tell them that the report in the Miami Herald declaring that Bush won is false and misleading