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US Media
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- NewsWatch
-- Center for Media and Public Affairs is introducing
a new, daily website which will offer media criticism to
news consumers. The new site, www.newswatch.org, debuted
on February 17, 1999.
NewsWatch
doesn't just give you the news. We'll tell you when it's
accurate,when it's wrong, and why. We'll brief you on the
latest media controversies with information you won't
find elsewhere, and we'll reveal the news behind the
news.
- The
Committee of Concerned
Journalists is a
consortium of reporters, editors, producers, publishers,
owners and academics worried about the future of the
profession The group believes this is a critical moment
in American journalism. Revolutionary changes in
technology, in economic equations, in our relationship
with the public, threaten the core principles that define
journalism's role in democratic society.
- The
Project for Excellence in
Journalism is an
initiative by journalists from all media to clarify and
raise the standards of American journalism. PEJ is
undertaking a series of efforts to accomplish this. The
project is affiliated with Columbia
University Graduate School of
Journalism, and is funded
by The
Pew Charitable Trusts.
- The
Freedom Forum is a
foundation promoting First Amendment rights, journalism
education, and media studies and research.
- The
Center for Media and Public Affairs
(CMPA) studies news and
entertainment media using scientific content analysis.
CMPA also conducts surveys and focus groups to illuminate
the media's role in structuring the public agenda.
- Accuracy
in Media, one of
the United States' older media watch organizations,
critiques the media from a conservative perspective.
- HYPE
is a web site that monitors the Black image in the
media. "We cover all channels - - including film, books, television, newspapers and magazines, video, cable, wire services, books, the Internet. We cover all types of content - - including news, entertainment, information, advertising, images,propaganda. HYPE itself is in the form of a magazine, including sections with features, news, commentary, images, how-to's. HYPE is published by the Center on Blacks and the Media, an independent, change- oriented research center."
- Current
Net Hoaxes, Urban Legends, and other digital
lies.
Website by
David Emery.
Hoax = False, deliberately deceptive information,
including pranks
UL = Urban Legend: a popularly believed narrative, most
likely false
Rumor = Questionable or erroneous information forwarded
with gusto
Junk = Flotsam and jetsam of the Net
- Index
on Censorship , the
bi-monthly magazine for free speech, widens the debates
on freedom of expression with some of the world's best
writers. Through interviews, reportage, banned literature
and polemic, Index shows how free speech affects the
issues of the moment..
- FAIR
(Fairness and Accuracy In
Reporting is the
national media watch group offering well-documented,
objective criticism in an effort to correct media bias
and imbalance. FAIR publishes the magazine
EXTRA!, the newsletter
EXTRA!Update, the radio show
CounterSpin, and the syndicated column "Media Beat", as well as occasional special reports
- Media
Ethics, Criticism, Censorship,
website by JournalismNet.
- News
Blues for TV News Insiders
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- Grade
the News
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- Noam Chomsky Archives. Collection of Chomsky's best works
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- Medianews A well-known site for media insiders, Jim Romenesko's keeps getting better. Now hosted by the Poynter Institute, it continues to feature the latest news about the news business and media industry (mainly American but some international.) The site also features links to media commentators, alternative weeklies and useful journalism sites.
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- Codes of Ethics. Associations American Society of Newspaper Editors
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- Victims
and the Media
Michigan State University's, School of Journalism.
Educating journalists of today and tomorrow about victim
issues.The first effort of its kind in the nation, the
Victims and the Media Program is designed to reach both
journalism students and working professionals, with
special emphasis on how to get the story without
re-victimizing the victim. The program was launched in
1990 by professor William CotÈ, a veteran reporter
and now the coordinator of the Victims and the Media
Program, and Frank Ochberg, M.D., an adjunct professor in
journalism, psychiatry, and criminal justice, with
specific expertise and interest in Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder (PTSD). In the fall of 1996, professor Sue
Carter became the new coordinator for the program.
- Yahoo!
Full Coverage:Media Watch
- Media
Watch Online.
The goal is to challenge abusive stereotypes and other
biased images commonly found in the media. Media Watch,
which began in 1984, distributes educational videos,
media literacy information and newsletters to help create
more informed consumers of the mass media. We do not
believe in any form of censorship, especially the
silencing of marginalized groups. We believe education
will help create a more active citizenry who will take
action against commercial media pap.
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- CAMERA
- Monitoring Media Coverage of
Israel.
- Newspaper
TV Reporters and Critics
- Media
Action Network for Asian Americans
(MANAA) - MANNA's
mission is to create an environment free of racism
through the accurate, balanced, and sensitive Asian
American images.
- Media
Alliance is a nonprofit organization which serves media professionals, nonprofit organizations and the general public in the San Francisco Bay Area. For twenty years, Media Alliance has worked to promote fairness and accuracy in the media in the Bay Area and nationwide.
- PR
Watch. The Center for
Media & Democracy is a nonprofit, public interest
organization funded by individuals and nonprofit
foundations and dedicated to investigative reporting on
the public relations industry. The Center serves
citizens, journalists and researchers seeking to
recognize and combat manipulative and misleading PR
practices.
- Media
Criticism. A webzine of
media culture, criticism, theory and activism, pubished
and edited by Steve Hoenisch in New York City.
- MEDIA
WATCH ALERT at: The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer's Media
Watch Web site.
The mission of the Media Unit at The NewsHour with Jim
Lehrer is to report and analyze news, trends, issues and
controversies involving the information industries. We
cover developments in every medium from the mainstream
press and television to alternative media, the Internet,
political and public affairs advertising and the like.
Terence Smith, Media Correspondent, The NewsHour with Jim
Lehrer. Examples: Have America's newspaper staffs
achieved a racial balance? (8/23). Should George W. Bush
have to answer questions about alleged drug use in his
past? (8/20)
- Media
Criticism and ethics.
Transparency
contains a careful selection of critiques of the mass
media, politics, and popular culture. It tries, as its
slogan indicates, to aid understanding of and reflection
on various aspects of cinema, television, news, political
rhetoric, theme parks, advertising, video games, and the
Internet..
- News
Watch Project. A News Media monitoring and advocacy project of the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism at SFSU Department of Journalism. News Watch is affiliated with San Francisco State's Journalism Department and the members of Unity '99 (AAJA, NABJ, NAHJ, NAJA) and the NLGJA. We're your on-line resource for bringing unbiased, fair coverage of people of color and lesbians/gays to the news.
- Poynter Institute. The Poynter Institute. St. Petersburg, Florida.
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- Stats,
Statistical Assessment Service.
The Statistical Assessment Service looks at the way that
statistical and quantitative information and research are
presented by the media, and works with journalists to
help them convey this material more accurately and
effectively.
- Center
for the People and the Press.
The Pew Center works closely with news organizations in
developing civic journalism initiatives, in
evaluating these projects and in training journalists in
the techniques of civic journalism. The Pew Center is an
incubator for civic journalism experiments that enable
news organizations to create and refine better ways of
reporting the news in ways that help to re-engage people
in public life. The center helps to share the lessons
learned at its workshops and seminars for
journalists.
- DISINFORMATION. Launched on September 13, 1996, Disinformation was designed to be the search service of choice for individuals looking for information on current affairs, politics, new science and the "hidden information" that seldom seems to slip through the cracks of the corporate-owned media conglomerates.
Mediascope
is a nonpartisan, nonprofit media policy group that
conducts independent research on a variety of media
related topics. Mediascope is concerned with the
responsible portrayal of social issues in the media.Some
of the areas with which we are concerned include violence
on TV, depictions of women and minorities, tobacco use in
the media, media ratings, the effects of electronic
interactive games and media usage.
- Propaganda
Analysis Home Page
discusses propaganda techniques, with examples.In 1937,
the Institute for Propaganda Analysis was created to
educate the American public about the widespread nature
of political propaganda. The IPA is best-known for
identifying the seven basic propaganda devices:
Name-Calling, Glittering Generality, Transfer,
Testimonial, Plain Folks, Card Stacking, and Band Wagon.
According to the authors of a recent book on propaganda,
"these seven devices have been repeated so frequently in
lectures, articles, and textbooks ever since that they
have become virtually synonymous with the practice and
analysis of propaganda in all of its aspects."
(Combs
and Nimmo, 1993)
- American
Newspeak is a
satirical news journal celebrating the Orwellian face of
the 1990's with cutting edge advances in the art of
doublethink carefully scavenged from the back pages of
our finer newspapers. A new batch of awful reporting
appears weekly.
- Mainstream
media must be stopped!
focusses on misogyny in the mainstream press, including
mixed messages promulgated by content and
advertisers.
- Media
Access Project.
Media Access Project (or "MAP") is a twenty-four year old
non-profit, public interest law firm which promotes the
public's First Amendment right to hear and be heard on
the electronic media of today and tomorrow.
- ASNE
Journalism Credibility Project.
American Society of
Newspaper Editors The credibility of journalists and
newspapers is a frequent topic of conversation in many
newsrooms, trade publications, conferences and in the
daily news media. The soul searching has sometimes been
described as an ongoing ritual of self-flagellation. But
despite concerted efforts of some in the industry,
journalism credibility remains a topic of concern. What's
going on? This report, prepared for the Journalism
Credibility Project by The Harwood Group, seeks to help
sort out the credibility issue. For instance, does a
credibility challenge even exist? If so, to what extent?
What might be some of the factors at play? The report
provides an overview of public opinion surveys (and
additional ASNE qualitative studies) since 1985.
- 1000
Deaths Media Watch.
Keeping an eye on how suicide is portrayed in the media.
With movie titles that have been submitted by suicide
survivors. The movies have suicide-related scenes or
themes which may be disturbing to someone surviving the
loss of a loved one or friend to suicide.
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