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"Media Map of Iraq: A bird's-eye view of where journalists are." [requires Flash 6] 20090329 Corporate - Media - Politics - Marketing - Religion - Government - Law - History - Television "Rev. Moon Exemplifies Right Wing GOP Subsidy of Big Media to Frame Message." ... "[Reverend] Rev. Moon has adopted a relatively low-profile in recent years (if you don't count his bizarre "coronation" by elected officials in a Capitol Hill House of Representatives meeting room a couple years back), but that hasn't prevented the weird religious leader (and close ally of the Bush family) from pouring an estimated 1 - 2.5 billion dollars into subsidizing the Washington Times since 1982." ... "In 2002, Rev. Moon pronounced "The Washington Times will become the instrument in spreading the truth about God to the world." But the reality is that the Washington Times -- like the New York Post and Weekly Standard for Rupert Murdoch -- are investments in obtaining financial regulatory and other favors from Republican administrations in return for helping frame and market the GOP [GOP=Grand Old Party=Republican] talking points of tax cuts, cultural wars, and Wall Street gambling." ... "The Washington Times has only about 100,000 subscribers, but its newsboxes are next to the Washington Post throughout D.C. [America's capital], allowing it to appear as an equal -- and to have its banner headlines seen by tens of thousands of D.C. "influencers" every day.  Then, it also gives a byline and title for its writers to appear as D.C. pundits on television (just as Bill Kristol is identified as editor of the chronically money losing "Weekly Standard" during his ubiquitous "pundit" appearances on the tube) -- as well as all television reporters need to quote it to provide "balance."" ... "In short, Moon, in essence, shells out hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars to use the Washington Times as a public relations vehicle for "framing" the GOP perspective." ... "Meanwhile, wealthy liberal Democrats don't buy up or create large media outlets; they just support efforts to criticize the corporate press and the likes of Rev. Moon." ... "You can win elections, but you can't make dramatic change unless you own part of the major media." ... "Rev. Moon understands that.  Why can't wealthy Democrats?" -By Mark Karlin -BuzzFlash.com 20090218 US - Global - Science - Environment - Politics - Corporations "Media often fail in their global warming coverage, says climate researcher." ... ""Business managers of media organizations: You are screwing up your responsibility by firing science and environment reporters, who are frankly the only ones competent to do this," said climate researcher and policy analyst Stephen Schneider, in assessing the current state of media coverage of global warming and related issues." ... "Schneider, a coordinating lead author of Chapter 19 in the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published in 2007, is calling for the news media to employ trained reporters in covering global warming. He discussed this and other issues [2009 February] Feb. 13 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Chicago [Illinois]." ... ""Science is not politics. You can't just get two opposing viewpoints and think you've done due diligence. You've got to cover the multiple views and the relative credibility of each view," said Schneider, the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies at Stanford [Universtiy in California], in an interview before the annual meeting. "But that is not usually the problem of the well-trained reporters, who understand what is credible." ... ""The problem is CNN just fired their science team. Why didn't they fire their economics team or their sports team? Why don't they send their general assignment reporters out to cover the Super Bowl?" Schneider said." ... "In addition, researchers have to do their part by clearly explaining issues to reporters in succinct terms, he said." ... ""You have to have your elevator statement or people won't listen to you," Schneider said." ... ""What I always suggest is that scientists find metaphors that convey both urgency and uncertainty, so that you can get people's attention while at the same time not overstating the case," he said. "Then you have websites and backup articles and books where you can give the full story, but you have to have your sound bite and your op-ed piece."" -By Louis Bergeron -StanfordNewsService 20090217 Journalism - Economics - Jobs - History "The death of the news: If reporting vanishes, the world will get darker and uglier. Subsidizing newspapers may be the only answer." ... "Journalism as we know it is in crisis. Daily newspapers are going out of business at an unprecedented rate, and the survivors are slashing their budgets. Thousands of reporters and editors have lost their jobs. No print publication is immune, including the mighty New York Times. As analyst Allan Mutter noted, 2008 was the worst year in history for newspaper publishers, with shares dropping a stunning 83 percent on average. Newspapers lost $64.5 billion in market value in 12 months." ... "But the real problem isn't that newspapers may be doomed." ... "As Nation columnist Eric Alterman recently argued, the real problem isn't the impending death of newspapers, but the impending death of news -- at least news as we know it." ... "What is really threatened by the decline of newspapers and the related rise of online media is reporting -- on-the-ground reporting by trained journalists who know the subject, have developed sources on all sides, strive for objectivity and are working with editors who check their facts, steer them in the right direction and are a further check against unwarranted assumptions, sloppy thinking and reporting, and conscious or unconscious bias." ... "If newspapers die, so does reporting. That's because the majority of reporting originates at newspapers. Online journalism is essentially parasitic. Like most TV news, it derives or follows up on stories that first appeared in print." ... "Currently there is no business model that makes online reporting financially viable." ... "There is no substitute for field reporting, in which a real live human being observes an event while it is happening and talks to other real, live human beings." ... "If field reporting dies out, the world will become a less known place." ... "Without reporting, dirty little wars would be invisible dirty little wars." (1, 2, 3) -By Gary Kamiya -Salon 20090213 Science - Journalism - Business "Science Journalism’s Hope and Despair: ‘Niche’ pubs growing as MSM circles the drain." (1, 2) -By Curtis Brainard -CJR.org 20090210 Political -  - Opinion "Fox passes off GOP press release as its own research -- typo and all." ... "Summary: In purporting to "take a look back" at how the economic recovery plan "grew, and grew, and grew," [Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp television station] Fox News' Jon Scott referenced seven dates, as on-screen graphics cited various news sources from those time periods -- all of which came directly from a Senate Republican Communications Center press release. A Fox News on-screen graphic even reproduced a typo contained in the Republican press release." -By Eric H. Hananoki -MediaMatters.org 20090208 Media - Politics - Radio - Market -Florida - San Diego - Sacramento - California - Ohio - Minnesota - Wisconsin - Portland - Oregon "Another Right-Wing Conspiracy in Washington?" ... "The commercial use of public airwaves is supposed to reflect the diversity of the local community, but that's not how it works in Washington [DC, America's capital]. On the AM dial, WMAL (630) features wall-to-wall conservative talk. So do stations WTNT (570) and WHFS (1580). For the past two years, OBAMA 1260 -- even with a weak signal that cannot be heard in downtown Washington -- was the exception. No longer. Starting tomorrow, our nation's capital, where Democrats control the House, the Senate and the White House, and where Democrats outnumber Republicans 10 to one, will have no progressive voices on the air." ... "Or maybe one." ... "To mollify critics, Red Zebra has said it will add Ed Schultz to its conservative lineup on 570 AM. This means Shultz will be outgunned in this market by at least 15 conservative talkers: Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, Chris Plante, Michael Smerconish, Michael Savage, Andy Parks, Fred Grandy, Bill Bennett, Monica Crowley, Bill O'Reilly, Dennis Miller and Lars Larsen. No matter how good Schultz is, that's not a fair contest -- nor a fair use of the public airwaves." ... "Unfortunately, what's happening in Washington reflects what has happened in one city after another across the country. In Miami [Florida], Clear Channel recently dumped progressive talk for sports: Clear Channel stations made the same move in San Diego [California] and Cincinnati [Ohio]. Sacramento [California] abandoned progressive talk for gospel music. In fact, according to a study released by the Center for American Progress and Free Press, there are nine hours of conservative talk for every one hour of progressive talk." ... "Why? Station owners complain they can't get good ratings or make any money with progressive talk, but that's nonsense. In Minnesota, independent owner Janet Robert has operated KTNF (950 AM) profitably for five years. In Madison, Wis. [Wisconsin], WXXM, 92.1 FM, just scored its highest ratings ever. And KPOJ in Portland, Ore. [Oregon], soared with progressive talk from No. 23 in market ratings to No. 1. Nationwide, progressive talkers Randi Rhodes, Ed Schultz and Stephanie Miller have proven that, given a level playing field, they can more than hold their own in ratings -- and make money for their stations." ... "In fact, the only reason there's not more competition on American airwaves is that the handful of companies that own most radio stations do everything they can to block it." ... "There is no free market in talk radio today, only an exclusive, tightly held, conservative media conspiracy." -By Bill Press -WashingtonPost 20090207 Michael Steele - Radio - Politics - Corporate - Media - Government - Marketing "The RNC [Republican National Committee] begs for help on right wing talk radio." ... "C&Lers Tony and Karen emailed me this tidbit and I thought I would share." "Please take a look at the RNC [Republican National Committee] website - http://www.rnc.org/ On the right hand side is a link that goes to a list of all of the right wing radio shows, along with a plea to promote the RNC. The [Republican President] Bush administration was constantly denying that talk radio was just another arm of their party. The RNC seems to have given up this pretense. It was blatant government propaganda for eight years. Sickening!" "Is there any doubt that Rush Limbaugh rules the GOP [GOP=Grand Old Party=Republican]? [Republican Chairman] Michael Steele has to beg for help from wingnut talk radio. How embarrassing. " -By John Amato -CrooksAndLiars.com 20090128 Cable - Media - Politics - Lawmakers - Federal - Economics - John Boehner - John McCain - OH - AZ "REPORT: GOP Lawmakers Outnumber Democratic Lawmakers 2 To 1 In Stimulus Debate On Cable News." ... "As Media Matters has documented, during the [Republican President] Bush administration, the media consistently allowed conservatives to dominate their shows, booking them as guests far more often than progressives. The rationale was that Republicans were “in power.”" ... "It appears that old habits die hard. Even though [Democratic] President Obama and his team are in control of the executive branch and Democrats are in the majority in Congress, the cable networks are still turning more often to Republicans and allowing them to set the agenda on major issues, most recently on the debate over the economic recovery package." ... "On Sunday, conservatives began an all-out assault on President Obama’s economic recovery plan, with [Ohio Republican Representative and Republican] House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH [Republican-Ohio]) and [Arizona Republican Senator] Sen. John McCain (R-AZ [Republican-Arizona]) both announcing that they would vote against the plan as it stood. Despite Obama’s efforts at good faith outreach, congressional conservatives have continued to attack the stimulus plan with a series of false and disingenuous arguments." ... "The media have been aiding their efforts. In a new analysis, ThinkProgress has found that the five cable news networks — CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, Fox Business and CNBC — have hosted more Republican lawmakers to discuss the plan than Democrats by a 2 to 1 ratio this week:" "Cable News Appearances By Members of Congress" "(By Party - January 26-28, 2009)" [Red=Republican / Blue=Democratic] ... "The drastically imbalanced coverage isn’t the first time that the news networks have effectively supported attacks on the recovery plans. As ThinkProgress reported on Monday, the cable networks, the Sunday shows and the network newscasts promoted a controversial CBO non-report 81 times before the actual CBO analysis of the stimulus plan was released." -ThinkProgress Sweden - Military - Switzerland - Politics - US - Media - Entertainment -  "Alba schools Fox’s O’Reilly in WW II history." ... "Jessica Alba is setting the record straight: Sweden was neutral during World War II." ... "Alba and Fox TV show host Bill O’Reilly traded punches last week after the presidential inauguration. After Alba told a Fox reporter that O’Reilly was “kind of an a-hole;” he retaliated by calling her a “pinhead” for telling a reporter to “be Sweden about it,” assuming she meant Switzerland." ... "“I want to clear some things up that have been bothering me lately,” Alba blogged on MySpace Celebrity. “Last week, Mr. Bill O'Reilly and some really classy sites (i.e.TMZ) insinuated I was dumb by claiming Sweden was a neutral country. I appreciate the fact that he is a news anchor and that gossip sites are inundated with intelligent reporting, but seriously people... it's so sad to me that you think the only neutral country during WWII was Switzerland.”" ... "Although Switzerland is more frequently cited as an example of neutrality, Sweden did indeed follow a policy of neutrality during World War II. History point to Alba." -By Courtney Hazlett -MSNBC 20090109 New York  - Police - Terrorism - Electronic - Communications - Reporting -Photos - Internet - Censorship - Politics - US - India "NYPD Wants To Interrupt Mobile Communications During Attacks." ... "The New York Police Department wants the ability to interrupt mobile phone service and other electronic communications during terrorist attacks." ... "Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told the U.S. [United States] Senate Committee on Homeland Security that the November attacks in Mumbai [India] illustrated the dangers of instant reporting from the field while an attack is unfolding." ... "The terrorists used cell phones and other devices to communicate while the attacks were in progress, Kelly said Thursday. Witnesses in India also provided instant updates on the situation using cell phones, digital photos on the Internet, and Twitter -- communicating what they saw as it unfolded." ... "It's unclear if authorities in New York could cut off attackers' cell service and other electronic communications without causing wider disruptions." ... "Millions of New Yorkers used phones -- landlines and cell phones -- to let out-of-town relatives and friends, as well as each other, know that they were OK after the [September] Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. In many cases, those in the middle of the chaos relied on those watching the news outside of New York City [New York] for information to help them decide whether to flee the island of Manhattan [New York City burrough] by ferry, to head uptown, or to stay put." ... "As a New Yorker, I can't imagine an attack without the ability to let my family know I'm OK or the ability to exchange information and offers of assistance with friends scattered throughout Manhattan." -By K.C. Jones -InformationWeek 20081220 Fashion - Politics - Journalist - Investigators - US - Iraq - Turkey "‘Bush Shoe’ Gives Firm a Footing in the Market." ... "When a pair of black leather oxfords hurled at [Republican] President Bush in Baghdad [Iraq's capital] produced a gasp heard around the world, a Turkish cobbler had a different reaction: They were his shoes." ... "“We have been producing that specific style, which I personally designed, for 10 years, so I couldn’t have missed it, no way,” said Ramazan Baydan, a shoemaker in Istanbul [Turkey]. “As a shoemaker, you understand.”" ... "Although his assertion has been impossible to verify — cobblers from Lebanon, China and Iraq have also staked claims to what is quickly becoming some of the most famous footwear in the world — orders for Mr. Baydan’s shoes, formerly known as Ducati Model 271 and since renamed “The Bush Shoe,” have poured in from around the world." ... "For now, Mr. Baydan’s customers will have to take his word for it. The journalist who launched the shoes at a news conference a week ago, Muntader al-Zaidi, 29, was wrestled to the ground by guards and has not been seen in public since. Explosives tests by investigators destroyed the offending footwear." -By Sebnem Arsu-NYTimes 20081219 US - Iraq - Torture - Investigation - Reporter - Fashion - Politics "Iraqi shoe-thrower 'was beaten': The investigating judge in the case of the Iraqi reporter who threw his shoes at US [Republican] President George W Bush says the man shows signs of having been beaten." ... "The judge, who saw Muntader al-Zaidi this week, said the journalist had bruises on his face and about his eyes." ... "He said Mr Zaidi was beaten while still at the news conference, in the immediate aftermath of the incident." ... "The court is investigating the beating and officials will watch recordings of the incident, he added." ... "It is still not clear, though, whether Muntader al-Zaidi's injuries were sustained only when security forces wrestled him to the ground, or in custody as well." ... "One of his brothers said the journalist had broken ribs and injuries to his arm too." ... "Muntader al-Zaidi has been in detention since throwing his shoes at President Bush on Sunday during a news conference with the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri Maliki. " -By Caroline Wyatt -BBC/News 20081218 Dick Cheney - Criminal - Torture - War Crimes - Prisons - Law - Military - Intelligence - Politics - Corporate - Media - US - Iraq "If Bush and Cheney Commit War Crimes and Everyone Knows It, But Does Nothing, Are They Still Crimes?" ... "As Jon Ponder noted here on Tuesday, a bi-partisan U.S. [United States] Senate panel has found [PDF] that [Republican President] George W. Bush was responsible for approving War Crimes (torture and abuse) at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, [Republican Vice President] Dick Cheney admitted in a recent interview to helping to approve War Crimes (torture and abuse) in interrogations, and the corporate media --- with the lone exception of MSNBC --- have been virtually as silent on what may be the most offensive crimes ever committed by an Executive Branch in the U.S. as they were during the lead-up to and follow-through on the War on Iraq, when those same officials sent our nation into war on the basis of demonstrable lies." ... "George Washington University's highly-respected constitutional law professor Jonathon Turley, noting the War Crimes now known and admitted to by Bush and Cheney, asked Keith Olbermann Tuesday night, "If someone commits a crime and everyone's around to see it and does nothing, is it still a crime?"" ... "During the discussion, Turley mentioned --- no less than three different times --- that it'll be up to the citizens whether or not any action is actually taken to prosecute those who committed these crimes." ... ""It will ultimately depend on citizens, and whether they will remain silent in the face of a crime that's been committed in plain view," Turley suggested. "It is equally immoral to stand silent in the face of a war crime and do nothing, and that is what the citizens are doing."" ... "He went on to argue: "There's this gigantic yawn as we hear about a war crime on national television being discussed matter-of-factly by the Vice President."" -By Brad Friedman -BradBlog.com WATCH  "Countdown: Jonathan Turley and Bush Admin War Crimes." -Keith Olbermann via -FireDogLake'sYouTube 20081216 China - US - British - Hong Kong - Taiwan - Foreign - Language - Websites - Police - Law - Journalists - Radio - Sports "China 'bans BBC Chinese website': China appears to have banned a number of foreign websites, including the [United Kingdom's British Broadcasting Corporation] BBC's Chinese language news site and Voice of America in Chinese." ... "The sites had been unblocked after journalists attending the Beijing [China's capital] Olympics complained that the government was censoring sites deemed sensitive." ... "The BBC expressed disappointment at the apparent reinstatement of the ban." ... "But a Chinese government spokesman told journalists that some sites contained content that violated Chinese law." ... "Among the other sites blocked are Asiaweek, Reporters Without Borders and some Hong Kong and Taiwan sites." ... "China imposes strict controls on the dissemination of information through the web, employing teams of people to remove sensitive content, police bloggers and remove access to certain sites." ... "In a statement, the BBC said it was disappointed that Chinese-speaking audiences in China were denied access to BBCChinese.com." ... "It said that except during the 2008 Games, the website had been blocked since its inception nearly a decade ago, and Mandarin radio broadcasts had been "subject to persistent frequency interference for decades"." -BBC/News  BBCChinese.com 20081212 Barack Obama - Media - Politics - Investigation - History - Illinois "Media Matters: Media pick up where they left off 8 years ago." ... "To anyone who lived through the media feeding frenzy of the 1990s, during which the nation's leading news organizations spent the better part of a decade destroying their own credibility by relentlessly hyping a series of non-scandals, the past few days, in which the media have tried to shoehorn [Democratic President Elect] Barack Obama into the [Illinois Democratic Governor] Rod Blagojevich scandal, have been sickeningly familiar." ... "Whenever reporters think -- or want you to think -- they've uncovered a presidential scandal, they waste little time in comparing it to previous controversies." ... "Perhaps the most striking aspect of the media's attempts to link Obama to the Blagojevich scandal has been the volume of news reports that are purely speculative -- and not only speculative, but vaguely speculative. That is, they don't even consist of conjecture about specific potential wrong doing. They simply consist of completely baseless speculation that Obama might in some way become caught up in the investigation at some point in the future, for some reason. It's little more than, "Maybe Obama will be involved." Well, sure. And maybe he'll play shortstop for the Washington Nationals [baseball team] next year." ... "If you want to make a "scandal" stick to someone despite the inconvenient truth that they aren't actually guilty of the purported wrongdoing in question, one thing you do -- if you're the media covering a Democratic president, or an overzealous conservative -- is continually expand the scandal's definition. So the "scandal" grows and evolves into an amorphous mass of innuendo as political opponents and journalists begin throwing everything against the wall, hoping something will stick." ... "If the news media regains a bit of the skepticism so many of them set aside for the past eight years, that would be an unequivocally good thing, and it should be applauded." ... "But this week brought signs that much of the media is set to resume the absurd and shameful behavior that defined the 1990s -- guilt by association, circular analysis whereby they ask baseless questions about non-scandals, then claim they have to report on the "scandal" because the White House is "besieged by questions," grotesque leaps of logic, downplaying exculpatory information, and too many other failings to list." ... "If that happens -- if the media continue to behave as they did in covering Whitewater -- they will damage the country. It's really that simple. We cannot afford to be distracted from serious problems by overheated conjecture and baseless insinuation masquerading as journalism." ... "That's how the media behaved the last time we had a Democratic president. They devoted wall-to-wall coverage to invented "scandals," ignored exculpatory evidence, saw evidence of guilt everywhere, took people out of context in order to accuse them of lying, and generally behaved like a pack of wild animals who couldn't tell right from wrong or truth from fiction -- or who simply didn't care. As a group, they behaved without ethical standards and without regard for the truth." ... "It's our responsibility -- all of us -- to make sure it doesn't happen again." -By Jamison Foser -MediaMatters.org 20081210 Barack Obama - Illinois - Money - Legislation - Media - Politics "Obama's support of ethics reform is good news for the GOP [GOP=Republican Party]...." ... "Seriously, I'm trying to get my arms around this new story on the Blagojevich scandal that the New York Times [by Mike McIntire and Jeff Zeleny] has put out there. The lede of the article is tantalizing:" "In a sequence of events that neatly captures the contradictions of [Democratic President Elect] Barack Obama’s rise through Illinois politics, a phone call he made three months ago to urge passage of a state ethics bill indirectly contributed to the downfall of a fellow Democrat he twice supported, [Illinois Democratic Governor] Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich." "Mr. Obama placed the call to his political mentor, Emil Jones Jr., president of the Illinois Senate. Mr. Jones was a critic of the legislation, which sought to curb the influence of money in politics, as was Mr. Blagojevich, who had vetoed it. But after the call from Mr. Obama, the Senate overrode the veto, prompting the governor to press state contractors for campaign contributions before the law’s restrictions could take effect on Jan. 1, prosecutors say." "OK, so what I'm getting from that is that Barack Obama supports ethics in government, that he doesn't think state contractors should be making large campaign contributions. Hey, that's a good thing, right?" ... "Right?" ... "Uh, according to the New York Times, not necessarily:" "Beyond the irony of its outcome, Mr. Obama’s unusual decision to inject himself into a statewide issue during the height of his presidential campaign was a reminder that despite his historic ascendancy to the White House, he has never quite escaped the murky and insular world of Illinois politics. It is a world he has long navigated, to the consternation of his critics, by engaging in a kind of realpolitik, Chicago-style, which allowed him to draw strength from his relationships with important players without becoming compromised by their many weaknesses." ""Beyond the irony of its outcome..."? Huh? How about...beyond the irony of the fact that an Obama phone call for an ethics reform bill -- strongly opposed by none other than Rod Blagojevich -- is an excuse to somehow tie him to the "murky" world of Chicago politics. Look (as Obama himself might say), there's some interesting new information in this Times article, but their basic perspective is all upside-down wrong." ... "Did it occur to them that maybe Obama was elected 44th president of the United States exactly because he HAS escaped "the murky and insular world of Illinois politics"? When people ask why would someone like Obama involve himself in Chicago politics, the bottom line is Chicago is where he lived -- he moved there to organize laid-off steelworkers, got a job there and then even married a Windy City native." -Philly.com -By Will Bunch 20081209 Kevin Martin - Corporate - Government - Politics - Telecommunications - Accounting - Investigation - Consumers - Video - Media "Congressional report: FCC chair abused power." ... "[Republican President Bush's] Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin ignored his responsibilities as head of the regulatory body and abused his power, according to a congressional report released Tuesday." ... "Over the course of his tenure, Martin manipulated and withheld information from the other FCC [Federal Communications Commission] commissioners and from Congress, neglected his statutory responsibilities to produce certain information to Congress, and ignored evidence that certain national communications programs were being grossly mismanaged, according to the report issued by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, titled "Deception and Distrust: The Federal Communications Commission Under Chairman Kevin J. Martin." (PDF)" ... "The committee launched a bipartisan investigation in January after hearing allegations of mismanagement from current and former FCC employees, telecommunications industry representatives, and other FCC commissioners." ... "Typically, a congressional committee would hold hearings to investigate such matters, but the report was issued in lieu of hearings because, the report says, "due to the climate of fear that pervades the FCC...we found that key witnesses were unwilling to testify or even to have their names become known."" ... "The chairman's office, the report says, ignored evidence consumers were overcharged and providers were overcompensated by as much as $100 million a year. The neglect of that information led to a windfall of millions of dollars for the largest TRS [Telecommunications Relay Service] provider, Sorenson, which covers about 80 percent of the video relay services market." ... "The report also recommends the Government Accountability Office audit the entire TRS program, including the FCC's efforts to protect the integrity of the fund." ... "The report also says Martin manipulated information given to his fellow commissioners and Congress. For instance, upon becoming chair in 2005, the report says, Martin ordered FCC staff to reverse the findings of a study, which initially said that "a la carte" cable programming would not benefit consumers. He also demoted the Media Bureau chief, who had been in charge of the study." ... "The reversal led to suspicion inside and out of the FCC that the study sent to Congress was not based on objective analysis, the committee report says." -By Stephanie Condon -CNET /News ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~	Media Websites Noteworthy Journalists Greg Gordon Jonathan Landay Dana Priest Charlie Savage(+) Murray Waas Media Matters MediaMatters.org Issues / Topics Top Media Personalities A-Z Media Personalities Media Matters on: Fox News Glenn Beck Ann Coulter  Sean Hannity  Brit Hume  John King Howard Kurtz Rush Limbaugh/+ Michelle Malkin  Suzanne Malveaux Chris Matthews >Matthews Monitor Rupert Murdoch Robert Novak  Norah O'Donnell  Bill O'Reilly  Cokie Roberts Tim Russert Michael Savage  Joe Scarborough Roger Simon Tony Snow  John Solomon John Stossel Jake Tapper Karen Tumulty Chris Wallace  CJR.org  >Owners FAIR.org  Media Matters PewCenter.org  CPJ.org "Journalists Killed." "Journalists Who Disappeared." "Journalists Killed in 2007: 66 Confirmed." 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"The Federal Communications Commission ordered its staff to destroy all copies of a draft study that suggested greater concentration of media ownership would hurt local TV news coverage, a former lawyer at the agency says." ... "The report, written in 2004, came to light during the Senate confirmation hearing for FCC Chairman Kevin Martin." ... "Adam Candeub, now a law professor at Michigan State University, said senior managers at the agency ordered that "every last piece" of the report be destroyed. "The whole project was just stopped - end of discussion," he said. Candeub was a lawyer in the FCC's Media Bureau at the time the report was written and communicated frequently with its authors, he said." ... " ... "The analysis showed local ownership of television stations adds almost five and one-half minutes of total news to broadcasts and more than three minutes of "on-location" news. 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Psychological - Secrets "Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand." ... "To the public, these men [retired military officers] are members of a familiar fraternity, presented tens of thousands of times on television and radio as “military analysts” whose long service has equipped them to give authoritative and unfettered judgments about the most pressing issues of the post- [September] Sept. 11 world." ... "Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times has found." ... "The effort, which began with the buildup to the Iraq war and continues to this day, has sought to exploit ideological and military allegiances, and also a powerful financial dynamic: Most of the analysts have ties to military contractors vested in the very war policies they are asked to assess on air." ... "A few expressed regret for participating in what they regarded as an effort to dupe the American public with propaganda dressed as independent military analysis." ... "Many also shared with Mr. Bush’s national security team a belief that pessimistic war coverage broke the nation’s will to win in Vietnam, and there was a mutual resolve not to let that happen with this war." ... "This was a major theme, for example, with Paul E. Vallely, a Fox News analyst from 2001 to 2007. A retired Army general who had specialized in psychological warfare, Mr. Vallely co-authored a paper in 1980 that accused American news organizations of failing to defend the nation from “enemy” propaganda during Vietnam." ... "“We lost the war — not because we were outfought, but because we were out Psyoped,” he wrote. He urged a radically new approach to psychological operations in future wars — taking aim at not just foreign adversaries but domestic audiences, too. He called his approach “MindWar” — using network TV and radio to “strengthen our national will to victory.”" (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, DOCUMENTS) -By David Barstow -NYTimes WATCH - "How the Pentagon Spread Its Message." -By David Barstow -NYTimes Marketing "Government Curries Favor With Military News Analysts." ... "The Pentagon may influence the analysis of some retired military personnel who appear on television news programs, the New York Times recently reported. Media insiders discuss the details of this murky world of defense companies, the current administration and the war in Iraq. WATCH: [PBS NewsHour Reporter] JUDY WOODRUFF: These former generals and colonels have been a mainstay of commentary and analysis. And the networks paid them for their appearances. Now, a lengthy New York Times investigation, published on Sunday, revealed the Pentagon targeted many of these analysts as part of an information apparatus to generate favorable news coverage of the administration's wartime performance. Pentagon officials organized hundreds of private meetings with senior military leaders and the military analysts. They included talks with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. According to the Times, analysts were also taken on tours of Iraq and given access to classified intelligence. In turn, members of this group have echoed administration talking points, sometimes even when they suspected the information was false or inflated. It was also disclosed that most of the analysts have ties to military contractors [corporate military money ties]. ... JOHN STAUBER, Center for Media and Democracy [and author of the book, "Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq."]: Well, Judy, first of all, congratulations to the NewsHour for doing this report. And it's a shame on the networks who were duped this way that they didn't show up to defend or explain their actions. What happened here was a psy-ops campaign [a psychological operations campaign], an incredible government propaganda campaign whereby Donald Rumsfeld and Torie Clark, the head of public relations for the Pentagon, designed a program to recruit 75, at least 75 former military officers, as your report said, most of them now lobbyists or consultants to military contractors, and insert them, beginning in 2002, before the attack on Iraq was even launched, into the major networks to manage the messages, to be surrogates. And that's the words that are actually used, "message multipliers" for the secretary of defense and for the Pentagon. This program continues right up to now. JUDY WOODRUFF: And is the essence of this that what they did was -- what the Pentagon did was illegal? JOHN STAUBER: Yes, what they did was illegal. Now, the Pentagon might contest that, but we've had various laws on the books in our country going back to the 1920s. It is illegal for the U.S. government to propagandize citizens in this way. In my opinion, this war could have never been sold if it were not for this sophisticated propaganda campaign. And what we need is congressional investigation of not just this Pentagon military analyst program, but all the rest of the deception and propaganda that came out of the Bush administration and out of the Pentagon that allowed them to sell and manage this war. " -PBS /NewsHour

20081124
China - Media - Politics - Entertainment - Music - Free Speech - Law - US
"China state media blast new Guns N' Roses album." ... "A newspaper published by China's ruling Communist Party is blasting the latest Guns N' Roses album as an attack on the Chinese nation." ... "Delayed since recording began in 1994, "Chinese Democracy" hit stores in the U.S. on Sunday, although it is unlikely to be sold legally in China, where censors maintain tight control over films, music and publications." ... "In an article Monday headlined "American band releases album venomously attacking China," the Global Times said unidentified Chinese Internet users had described the album as part of a plot by some in the West to "grasp and control the world using democracy as a pawn."" ... "The album "turns its spear point on China," the article said." -By Christopher Bodeen -AP via -Yahoo

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20081115
Corporate - Television - Media - Politics
"If it’s Sunday, it’s still conservative." ... "In 2006, Media Matters conducted a study on Sunday political talk shows, finding that “Republicans and conservatives have been offered more opportunities to appear on the Sunday shows — in some cases, dramatically so.” From 2001 to 2005, conservative guests outnumbered progressives “by 58 percent to 42 percent.” Atrios notes that tomorrow’s shows will also be dominated by conservative guests:"

"7 Appearances by Republican current elected officeholders"
"3 Appearances by Democratic current elected officeholders."
"2 Appearances by Republican former elected officeholders."
"1 Appearance by a [Republican President] Bush Cabinet Secretary."
"T. Boone Pickens [former Republican swift boat contributor]"
"Ted Turner. "

" -ThinkProgress.org

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20081114
Political - Corporate - Television - Media - Michigan - Massachusetts - New York - Arizona - Georgia-Louisiana - Alabama
"More Muscle." ... "TPM Reader RS ..."

"Here is something progressives really need to address. On Sunday morning political shows, three Democrats are confirmed as guests: [Michigan Democratic Senator] Carl Levin, [Massachusetts Democratic Representative] Barney Frank, and [New York Democratic Representative] Charlie Rangel. It's as if Democrats didn't just win huge electoral advances in the Presidential, House, and Senate elections. So we get the same thing we've had the past 8 years--republican hegemony on Sunday. [Arizona Republican Senator Jon] Kyl? Check. [former Georgia Republican Representative Newt] Gingrich? Check. [Republican Michael] Steele? Check. [Louisiana Republican Governor Bobby] Jindal and [Alabama Republican Senator Richard] Shelby? Check and check? Just look at The Page for the whole list. When is the "liberal media" going to give some of the oxygen to Democrats?"

"This is unquestionably true. The bookers and producers of the Sunday shows are committed to the continuing dominance of conservative/Republican marquee guests. No question about it. And this is going to be one part of the rewiring of Washington that will take longer and face more resistance than possibly any other. The big interests and institutions that go to Washington to buy influence are quickly reacting to the changing political complexion of the city. The TV bookers and opinion act like nothing's happened." -By Josh Marshall .TalkingPointsMemo

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20081112
Sarah Palin - John McCain - 2008 Election - Media - Politics - Alaska - Arizona
"Why Palin Still Matters." ... "Let's be real in a way the national media seems incapable of: this person [2008 Election Republican Vice Presidential Candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin] should never have been placed on a national ticket in a mature democracy. She was incapable of running a town in Alaska competently. The impulsive, unvetted selection of a total unknown, with no knowledge of or interest in the wider world, as a replacement president remains one of the most disturbing events in modern American history. That the press felt required to maintain a facade of normalcy for two months - and not to declare the whole thing a farce from start to finish - is a sign of their total loss of nerve. That the Palin absurdity should follow the two-term presidency of another individual utterly out of his depth in national government is particularly troubling. 46 percent of Americans voted for the possibility of this blank slate as president because she somehow echoed their own sense of religious or cultural "identity". Until we figure out how this happened, we will not be able to prevent it from happening again. And we have to find a way to prevent this from recurring." ... "It happened because [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator] John McCain is an incompetent and a cynic and reckless beyond measure. To have picked someone he'd only met once before, without any serious vetting procedure, revealed McCain as an utterly unserious character, a man whose devotion to the shallowest form of political gamesmanship trumped concern for his country's or his party's interest." ... "It was a final product of the now-exhausted strategy of fomenting fundamentalist resentment to elect politicians dedicated to the defense of Israel and the extension of American military hegemony in every corner of the globe. Palin was the reductio ad absurdum of this mindset: a mannequin candidate, easily controlled ideologically, deployed to fool and corral the resentful and the frightened, removed from serious scrutiny and sold on propaganda networks like a food product." ... "This deluded and delusional woman still doesn't understand what happened to her; still has no self-awareness; and has never been forced to accept her obvious limitations. She cannot keep even the most trivial story straight; she repeats untruths with a ferocity and calm that is reserved only to the clinically unhinged; she has the educational level of a high school drop-out; and regards ignorance as some kind of achievement. It is excruciating to watch her - but more excruciating to watch those who feel obliged to defend her." ... "Her candidacy, in short, was indefensible. It remains indefensible." -By Andrew Sullivan -TheAtlantic.com

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20081110
Barack Obama - E-Mail - Database - 2008 Election - People - Communications - Media - Politics - GOV- Legislation - 2010 Election
"Under Obama, Web Would Be the Way: Unprecedented Online Outreach Expected." ... "Armed with millions of e-mail addresses and a political operation that harnessed the Internet like no campaign before it, [Democratic President-Elect] Barack Obama will enter the White House with the opportunity to create the first truly "wired" presidency." ... "Obama aides and allies are preparing a major expansion of the White House communications operation, enabling them to reach out directly to the supporters they have collected over 21 months without having to go through the mainstream media." ... "The nucleus of that effort is an e-mail database of more than 10 million supporters. The list is considered so valuable that the Obama camp briefly offered it as collateral during a cash-flow crunch late in the campaign, though it wound up never needing the loan, senior aides said. At least 3.1 million people on the list donated money to Obama." ... "Millions more made up the volunteer corps that organized his enormous rallies, registered millions of voters and held countless gatherings to plug the senator to friends and neighbors. On Election Day [2008], they served as the backbone of Obama's get-out-the-vote operation, reaching voters by phone and at the front door, serving coffee at polling stations and babysitting so parents could stand in line at voting precincts." ... "After Obama declared victory, his campaign sent a text message announcing that his supporters hadn't heard the last from the president-elect. Obama conveyed a similar message to his staff in a campaignwide conference call Wednesday, signaling that his election was the beginning, and not the culmination, of a political movement." ... "Accordingly, the president-elect's http://www.change.gov transition Web site features a blog and a suggestion form, signaling the kinds of direct and instantaneous interaction that the Obama administration will encourage, perhaps with an eye toward turning its following into the biggest special-interest group in Washington." ... "Once Obama is sworn in, those backers may be summoned to push reluctant members of Congress to support legislation, to offer feedback on initiatives and to enlist in administration-supported causes in local communities. Obama would also be positioned to ask his supporters to back his favored candidates with fundraising and turnout support in the 2010 midterm elections." (1, 2) -By Shailagh Murray and Matthew Mosk with contributions by Alec MacGillis -WashingtonPost

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20081109
Radio -  - Opinion - Politics - People - 2008 Election - Obama - Government - Retirement - Money
"Right-wing media feeds its post-election anger." ... "... [M]any on the losing end of last week's [2008] election want to hold on to their anger. And there are those in the media -- led by the likes of [radio talker Rush] Limbaugh and [Fox tv talker Sean] Hannity -- only too ready to feed that animus, along with their own ratings." ... "In a time when the nation calls out for cool leadership and rational discussion, Limbaugh stirs the caldron, a tendency he proved in a particularly grotesque way last week when he accused Obama's party of plotting a government takeover of 401(k) retirement plans." ... ""They're going to take your 401(k), put it in the Social Security trust fund, whatever the hell that is," Limbaugh woofed. "Trust fund, my rear end."" ... "A slight problem with Limbaugh's report: Obama and the Democrats have proposed no such thing." ... "To broadcast such a report -- so drained of context as to constitute a lie -- would be a shameless act at any time. But Limbaugh needlessly stirred the fears of the millions he holds in his thrall -- making the 401(k) thievery sound like nearly a done deal. Shameless." -By James Rainey -LAtimes

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20081108
Barack Obama - John Boehner - Karl Rove - 2008 Election - Media - Politics - Corporate - Healthcare - Ohio - US - Iraq - Global - Climate
"Sunday Roundup." ... "In the wake of [2008 Election Democratic President-Elect Barack] Obama's overwhelming victory, and Democratic gains in the House and Senate, conservatives are desperately trying to convince the world that these results are meaningless. "Democrats should not make the mistake of viewing Tuesday's results as a repudiation of conservatism," insisted [Ohio Republican Representative] John Boehner. "Barack Obama understands this is a center-right country," claimed Karl Rove. "This country remains every bit as center-right as it has for a generation," parroted Brent Bozell. And David Brooks dreamed of an Obama administration that understands "this was an election where the middle asserted itself." Drunk on self-delusion, a staggering GOP whistles past the electoral graveyard, missing the whole point of this election: the center has shifted, and positions that used to be considered "left-wing" -- on healthcare, on global warming, on corporate responsibility, on Iraq -- are now solidly mainstream." -By Arianna Huffington -HuffingtonPost.com

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20081104
Dick Cheney - Opinion - Politics - History - 2008 Election - 2004 Election
"In 2008, will media recall 2004 declarations of Bush "mandate"? Summary: [Republican] President Bush was re-elected in 2004 with 286 electoral votes, the smallest popular-vote margin since 1976 (excluding the 2000 election) and the lowest electoral vote count for an incumbent president's re-election since 1916. Nevertheless, many in the media were quick to echo [**] [Republican] Vice President Dick Cheney's assertion that "the nation" gave Bush "a mandate." It remains to be seen whether the media will apply the same standard in assessing the results of the 2008 election." -By S.S.M. -MediaMatters.org

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20081029
Barack Obama -  - Ad - Media - 2008 Election - Families -Economy - Military - Ohio - Missouri - Kansas- New Mexico - Florida - Arizona -  - US - Iraq
"30-minute Obama ad shows campaign muscle." ... "[2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate and Illinois Senator] Sen. Barack Obama's 30-minute TV ad, which ran simultaneously on broadcast and cable networks at 8 p.m. ET Wednesday, is muscle-flexing that has little precedent, a campaign advertising expert said." ... ""It's evidence, if you needed any, that the Obama campaign has more money than there is ad time left to buy," said Evan Tracey, director of the Campaign Media Analysis Group. "This is flexing the muscles."" ... ""The strategic brilliance of this for Obama is that he is going to consume about 24 hours of the news cycle," Tracey said. "It boxes [John] McCain in, takes the oxygen out of the room."" ... "In the carefully produced infomercial, Obama laid out his plans for the economy and for bringing an end to the war in Iraq." ... "It also featured stories of struggling families in swing states such as Ohio and Missouri and included testimonials from high-profile supporters, including Kansas [Democratic Governor] Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and New Mexico [Democratic Governor] Gov. Bill Richardson." ... "Obama's Republican opponent, Arizona Sen. John McCain, was not mentioned, nor was the GOP [GOP=Grand Old Party=Republican]. The spot ended with a brief, live Obama address to a rally in Florida, another hotly contested state in this year's campaign." -By Richard Allen Greene -CNN

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WATCH Barack Obama ad: "American Stories, American Solutions."
"Obama: "I'm reminded every single day that I am not a perfect man. I will not be a perfect president. But I can promise you this: I will always tell you what I think and where I stand. I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you when we disagree. And, most importantly, I will open the doors of government and ask you to be involved in your own democracy again."" - BarackObama.com

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20081020
Cartoon - Fashion - History - Germany - Poland - US - McCain - Palin - 2008 Election - /Channel - Media - Corp
"Fox Family Feud Over ‘Family Guy’." ... "A Sunday night episode of the Fox animated series “Family Guy” stirred up trouble by suggesting­ rather directly that Nazi officers would have supported the McCain-Palin ticket. And it was another arm of the News Corp. conglomerate, Fox News Channel, that first reported on the episode." ... "Fox (the broadcast network) aired the episode in which Stewie, the obnoxious baby character at the center of the series, and Brian, a talking dog, traveled back in time to Poland during the 1939 German invasion. The characters ambush Nazi soldiers in an alley and steal their uniforms so they can travel without drawing attention. Putting on an overcoat, Stewie notices a McCain-Palin campaign button affixed to the lapel. “Huh, that’s weird,” Stewie remarks." -By Brooks Barnes -NYTimes

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"Family Guy" cartoon with animated character "Stewie" in a Nazi uniform with a McCain/Palin button on it:
WATCH episode of "Family Guy" cartoon with character Stewie in Nazi uniform with McCain/Palin button

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20081007
Reporter - Politics - Government - Financial - Social Security - Accounting - 2008 Election
"If Social Security Was a Private Corporation Then it Would Sue Tom Brokaw for Every Penny He Has." ... "If a news reporter deliberately makes a false statement claiming that a private company like Boeing or Microsoft is going broke, the company has the right to sue the reporter and the news agency. That is why reporters rarely make statements like Microsoft or Boeing (or Lehman Brothers, AIG, or Goldman Sachs) are going broke." ... "However, reporters can freely impugn the financial health of a government program like Social Security because a government program cannot sue for libel. That is why Brokaw knew that he could imply that Social Security is going broke, even though it is not true. Social Security cannot sue Brokaw even if he deliberately tells explicit lies about its financial health." ... "Those who are interesting in learning about the true state of Social Security's financial health can find out by looking at the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office's website [PDF]." -By Dean Baker -Prospect.org

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20081004
Secret - John McCain - Terrorism - History - Money - Politics - Radio -Federal - Law - Enforcement - 2008 Election - Clinton - New York -Arizona
"Why is the NY Times continuing to ignore McCain's "own Bill Ayers"?" ... "... [The New York[ Times has yet to mention, let alone devote an entire article to, [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator] Sen. John McCain's relationship with radio host and convicted Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy [Republican President Nixon associate]." ... "As Media Matters for America has noted, Liddy served four and a half years in prison in connection with his conviction for his role in the Watergate break-in and the break-in at the office of the psychiatrist of Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers. Liddy has acknowledged preparing to kill someone during the Ellsberg break-in "if necessary"; plotting to murder journalist Jack Anderson; plotting with a "gangland figure" to murder Howard Hunt to stop him from cooperating with investigators; plotting to firebomb the Brookings Institution; and plotting to kidnap "leftist guerillas" at the 1972 Republican National Convention -- a plan he outlined to the Nixon administration using terminology borrowed from the Nazis. (The murder, firebombing, and kidnapping plots were never carried out; the break-ins were.) During the 1990s, Liddy reportedly instructed his radio audience on multiple occasions on how to shoot Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms agents and also reportedly said he had named his shooting targets after [Democratic President] Bill and [New York Senator] Hillary Clinton." ... "Liddy has donated $5,000 to McCain's campaigns since 1998, including $1,000 in February 2008. In addition, McCain has appeared on Liddy's radio show during the presidential campaign, including as recently as May. An online video labeled "John McCain On The G. Gordon Liddy Show 11/8/07" includes a discussion between Liddy and McCain, whom Liddy described as an "old friend." During the segment, McCain praised Liddy's "adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great," said he was "proud" of Liddy, and said that "it's always a pleasure for me to come on your program."" ... "Additionally, in 1998, Liddy reportedly held a fundraiser at his home for McCain. Liddy was reportedly scheduled to speak at another fundraiser for McCain in 2000. The Charlotte Observer reported on January 23, 2000, that McCain's campaign vouched for Liddy's "character":"

"His [McCain's] campaign officials said Liddy's character will appeal to many voters because he was following orders from [Republican] President Nixon and kept silent afterward."

""His (Liddy's) judgment might be in question, but I don't think his character is," said Ed Walker, the York County chairman of McCain's campaign. "He was following orders just like any good soldier, and he didn't tell on anybody. He felt like he was on a mission and kept his silence.""

"Liddy's 2000 speech was reportedly canceled due to bad weather." ... "In his May 4 [Chicago] Tribune column, [columnist Steve] Chapman wrote:"

"What McCain didn't mention is that he has his own Bill Ayers -- in the form of G. Gordon Liddy. Now a conservative radio talk-show host, Liddy spent more than 4 years in prison for his role in the 1972 Watergate burglary. That was just one element of what Liddy did, and proposed to do, in a secret White House effort to subvert the Constitution. Far from repudiating him, McCain has embraced him."
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"Last November, McCain went on his radio show. Liddy greeted him as "an old friend," and McCain sounded like one. "I'm proud of you, I'm proud of your family," he gushed. "It's always a pleasure for me to come on your program, Gordon, and congratulations on your continued success and adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great.""

"Which principles would those be? The ones that told Liddy it was fine to break into the office of the Democratic National Committee to plant bugs and photograph documents? The ones that made him propose to kidnap anti-war activists so they couldn't disrupt the 1972 Republican National Convention? The ones that inspired him to plan the murder (never carried out) of an unfriendly newspaper columnist?"

"Liddy was in the thick of the biggest political scandal in American history -- and one of the greatest threats to the rule of law. He has said he has no regrets about what he did, insisting that he went to jail as "a prisoner of war.""

[Chicago Tribune columnist Steve Chapman]

" -By Jon Sime -MediaMatters.org

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In 2002 just six [now five?] media corporations have a controlling interest in 1,800 daily newspapers, 11,000 magazines, 11,000 radio stations, 2,000 television stations, and 3,000 book publishers in North America.

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GE, TimeWarner, Disney, Viacom, NewsCorp
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•  Disney / ABC
•  http://cjrarchives.org/tools/owners/ge.asp
•  GE / NBC / MSNBC / CNBC / 1/3 of Paxson Communications / Telemundo
•  http://cjrarchives.org/tools/owners/newscorp.asp
•  News Corp / Fox / Murdoch / WSJ / NYPost / TV Guide / Star TV / DirecTV / Sky TV / HarperCollins / IGN / MySpace /
•  http://cjrarchives.org/tools/owners/timewarner.asp
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•  http://cjrarchives.org/tools/owners/viacom.asp
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•  Viacom / CBS / Redstone / Westinghouse / Infinity  Radio /  BET / MTV / Comedy Central /

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• Advance Publications
• "Who Controls the Media?" via NowFoundation.org
• GE: NBC / MSNBC / CNBC...++ (+partial ownership of A&E / AMC / Bravo /  CourtTV ++)

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• TimeWarner: CW(WB) / HBO / Cinemax / TBS / TNT / CartoonNetwork / CNN...++ (+partial ownership of ComedyCentral +)

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• DISNEY: ABC / Disney / (+partial ownership of A&E / Lifetime / ESPN / E! +)

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• Viacom: CBS / Nickelodeon / MTV / M2 / VH1 / Showtime / TNN / TVLand... ++ (+partial ownership of ComedyCentral / Sundance / Telenoticias / UPN +)

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• NewsCorp: FOX / FoxNews / fx / TVGuide...+++ (+partial ownership of NationalGeographic)

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• Other major media corporations:
• AT&T: TCI (+partial ownership of TimeWarner / Turner / USA / Sci-Fi / E! / CourtTV / Starz! / BET / CNN / TNT / TLC / Discovery / QVC / Telemundo / Encore / MSG / HSN...+++)
• Sony
• Universal (Seagram): UniversalStudios (+partial ownership of USA / Sci-Fi)

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6 Media Corporations (International):
VivendiUniversal, TimeWarner, Disney, Viacom, NewsCorp, Bertelsmann
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•  http://www.mediachannel.org/ownership/granville.shtml - year 2000
• http://MediaChannel.org/ownership via  MediaChannel.org

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• 10 Media Corporations (International):

AOLTimeWarner, AT&T, GE, Disney, Viacom, NewsCorp, Bertelsmann, VivendiUniversal, LibertMedia, Sony
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• "What's Wrong With This Picture?" -By Mark Crispin Miller -December 20, 2001
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 FAIR.org - "Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting:  The National Media Watch Group."

 IWMF Courage in Journalism Awards - http://www.IWMF.org/courage

 IWMF.org - "International Women's Media Foundation." - ""...No press is truly free unless women share an equal voice...""

•  MediaChannel.org - "A Global Network of Media Issues Groups."
•  Editors' Picks - "Critical Clicks: New and important features from the MediaChannel network."
•  Daily Media News

•  Writings by Paul Martin Lester
•  Photojournalism An Ethical Approach
•  Searching for Journalism Credibility in this Dotcom World
•  FACSNET | Main Page "Improving Journalism Through Education"
•  Poynter.org
•  Poynter.org - Doing Journalism
•  Poynter.org - Links to the News
•  Poynter.org - Quick Click to Your Job

•  http://www.Poynter.org/terrorism
•  http://www.Poynter.org/terrorism/Gallery2002

•  "FRONTLINE/WORLD | PBS" - http://www.PBS.org/frontlineworld
• 200205 "Bhutan - The Last Place." -  "FRONTLINE/WORLD . Bhutan | PBS." - http://www.PBS.org/frontlineworld/stories/bhutan

 Open Directory - News: Online Archives - http://dmoz.org/News/Online_Archives

"Salon Corrections Policy." ... "Salon strives to publish accurate information at all times. Minor errors of spelling, punctuation and the like will be corrected on our Web site without notice. When we correct significant errors of fact or substance, we will note the correction on this page and also on the page containing the corrected version of the original article." - http://www.Salon.com/letters/corrections

•  OJR.org - "USC Annenberg: Online Journalism Review."
•  APME.com - "Associated Press Managing Editors."
•  http://www.APME.com/call_for_entries/freedom_of_information.shtml
•  ASNE.org - "American Society of Newspaper Editors."

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•  EditorAndPublisher.com

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• http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/mweb?book=Dictionary&va=mass+media

•  Media Sector Description - Hoover's Online
•  Hoover's Online - Media - Publishing - Newspapers Industry Listing
•  Hoover's Online - Media - Media - Major Diversified Industry Listing 

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•  Hoover's Online - Media - Publishing - Newspapers SIC Codes
• -SIC Code: 2711 - Industry Name: Newspapers

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•  http://www.hoovers.com/

AP.org:
• Industry News

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• "Industry News" from the Associated Press.
• "Who Owns What" from the Columbia Journalism Review.

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• CPJ.org "Committee to Protect Journalists."
• Editor & Publisher - "Editor & Publisher" - "Editor And Publisher" - EditorAndPublisher.com

PewCenter.org - "The Pew Center For Civic Journalism."

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