Journalism

Iran Claims Fly While Media Bombs

by Diane Farsetta — June 4, 2008 - 12:33pm

"As they duel over how best to deal with Tehran," Senators John McCain and Barack Obama "are exaggerating what's known about Iran's nuclear program," reports Jonathan Landay. "The U.S. intelligence community ... thinks that Iran halted an effort to build a nuclear warhead in mid-2003, and the U.N.

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McClatchy Newspapers, June 2, 2008

The Fever Breaks at MSNBC

by Daniel Haack — May 29, 2008 - 11:21am

Former MSNBC correspondent Jessica Yellin admitted on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 last night that during the run-up to the war, "the press corps was under enormous pressure from corporate executives, frankly, to make sure that this was a war that was presented in a way that was consistent with the patriotic fever in the nation and the president's high approval ratings." Appearing as part of a panel discussing Scott McClellan’s book, What Happened: I

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The Huffington Post, May 29, 2008

Media Hits by the Pentagon Pundits

by Sheldon Rampton — May 20, 2008 - 6:13pm

On the heels of last month's New York Times investigative report exposing the hidden relationship between media military analysts and the Pentagon and defense industries,

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Media Matters for America, May 13, 2008

Contractors Gone Wild, Media Gone Missing

by Sheldon Rampton — May 10, 2008 - 4:05pm

Bruce Falconer is calling out the mainstream media for ignoring the disturbing testimony that dominated recent U.S. Senate hearings into corruption by private contractors in Iraq.

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Mother Jones, May 2, 2008

Pentagon's Propaganda Documents Go Online, but Will the TV Networks Ever Report this Scandal?

by John Stauber — May 6, 2008 - 1:53pm
  • Topics: Iran, Iraq, Journalism, Pundits, Terrorism, Third Party Technique, Democracy, Ethics, Lobbying, Media, Politics, Propaganda, U.S. Government, War / Peace

    • Eight thousand pages of documents related to the Pentagon's illegal propaganda campaign, known as the Pentagon military analyst program, are now online for the world to see, although in a format that makes it impossible to easily search them and therefore difficult to read and dissect. This trove includes the documents pried out of the Pentagon by David Barstow and used as the basis for his stunning investigation that appeared in the New York Times on April 20, 2008.

    More Pentagon Propaganda, Online

    by Diane Farsetta — May 2, 2008 - 4:27pm

    As part of its plan to expand online "information operations," the Pentagon is launching "a global network of foreign-language news websites ... and hiring local journalists to write current events stories and other content that promote U.S. interests," reports Peter Eisler. The Pentagon launched Matawani.com last year, an Arabic-language site with Iraq news; other sites are being developed for Asian and Latin American audiences.

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    USA Today, May 1, 2008

    The Great Stonewall of China

    by Bob Burton — May 2, 2008 - 2:59am

    The Chinese government has unveiled a new regulation that China View, an English language website of the government-owned Xinhua News Agency, reports "includes a 'freedom of information' provision that gives the public, whether individuals or organizations, the right to request government

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    China View, April 30, 2008

    Scandal, What Scandal?

    by Bob Burton — May 2, 2008 - 2:54am

    Almost two weeks after the New York Times reported on the Penatgon's military analyst program to sell controversial policies such as the invasion of Iraq, the broadcast television news outlets implicated in the program are hoping to tough out the scandal by refusing to report it.

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    Media Matters of America, April 29, 2008
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