Media

The Mighty Windbags

by Sheldon Rampton — May 10, 2004 - 10:00pm

Salon.com has published an excerpt from former right-wing journalist David Brock's new book, The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy. In an accompanying interview, Brock talks about how the conservative media "sets a climate and helps set parameters and helps form impressions. ...

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Salon.com, May 11, 2004

The Power of Pictures

by Sheldon Rampton — May 6, 2004 - 10:00pm

"By many accounts, the horrible treatment of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers and mercenaries has been going on ever since the end of the invasion," notes Dan Gillmor. "The Red Cross warned U.S. officials a year ago. Yet it took those appalling photographs to turn this into the huge story that it's become.

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Dan Gillmor Journal, May 7, 2004

Brock's Back

by Sheldon Rampton — May 3, 2004 - 6:21am

Former right-wing attack journalist David Brock blasted the conservative movement in his 2002 confessional, Blinded by the Right. Now he has launched Media Matters, a "Web-based, not-for-profit progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S.

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http://mediamatters.org/

A Shot at the News

by Diane Farsetta — April 25, 2004 - 10:00pm

"It is designed to circumvent the campaign-finance restrictions, which would bar us from communicating to our members before elections," explained a National Rifle Association spokesperson about the pro-gun lobby group's recently launched news service.

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PR Week, April 26, 2004

Friendly Fire?

by Diane Farsetta — April 18, 2004 - 10:00pm

Two employees of a Pentagon-funded television station were killed by U.S. troops in Iraq today. Al-Iraqiya correspondent Asaad Kadhim, driver Hussein Saleh and cameraman Bassem Kamel came under fire as they drove along the road to the central city of Samara. Kadhim and Saleh were killed, while Kamel was wounded.

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Wall Street Journal, April 19, 2004

The Jefferson Muzzles

by Sheldon Rampton — April 12, 2004 - 10:00pm

The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression chooses April 13, the anniversary of Jefferson's birth, to issue its annual "Jefferson Muzzles" award to call attention to "those who in the past year forgot or disregarded Mr.

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Thomas Jefferson Center, April 13, 2004

A Well-Oiled Revolving Door

by Diane Farsetta — April 1, 2004 - 11:00pm

Anna Perez, until recently the National Security Council's director of communications and Condoleezza Rice's "counselor of communications," will become NBC's chief communications executive in May.

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New York Times, April 2, 2004

Time for CNN, None for Congress

by Sheldon Rampton — March 25, 2004 - 11:00pm

Condoleezza Rice is the White House official whose testimony is desired the most by the congressional panel probing the Bush administration's handling of Al Qaeda before the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, but the Bush administration refuses to have her testify publicly. She hasn't exactly been invisible, though.

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New York Times, March 26, 2004

Spinning Spin Sisters

by Sheldon Rampton — March 24, 2004 - 11:00pm

"St. Martin's Press has brought in Shirley & Banister Public Affairs to drum up conservative support for a new book accusing women's magazines of a liberal bend and constant focus on the 'woes of womanhood,'" reports O'Dwyer's PR Daily.

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O'Dwyer's PR Daily (requires subscription), March 25, 2004

When FOX Attacks...

by Diane Farsetta — March 24, 2004 - 11:00pm

Shortly before former counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke's testimony to the September 11th commission, "the White House violated its long-standing rules by authorizing Fox News to air remarks favorable to Bush that Clarke had made anonymously at an administration briefing in 2002.

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Washington Post, March 25, 2004
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