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BBC kept £106,000 of charity cash

Friday, May 9th, 2008

bbc.jpgBy Leigh Holmwood | The BBC today apologised for keeping £106,000 made from premium-rate phone calls on about two dozen shows that should have been given to charity. In the latest scandal to hit the television industry over phone-ins, the BBC also admitted that viewers of Making Your Mind Up, the BBC1 show that chose last year's ...

Pentagon’s Propaganda Documents Go Online

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

pentagonlogo.jpgBy John Stauber | 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 ...

UN official decries weakening of press freedom

Monday, May 5th, 2008

pressfreedom.jpgDawn | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has decried weakening of press freedom world over, saying that governments are becoming more secretive and offering propaganda disguised as objective information — especially when alleged security-related issues are on the table. In a message on the occasion of Press Freedom Day, Ms Arbour noted that harassment and secrecy laws were ...

Al Jazeera Cameraman Freed From Guantánamo

Monday, May 5th, 2008

sami-al-haj.jpgRHC | Al Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Haj has been released from the U.S.-run military prison at Guantánamo. Arrested in Pakistan in December 2001, al-Haj had spent nearly six-and-a-half years at Guantánamo without charge or trial. He had been on a more than a year-long hunger strike to protest his imprisonment. Earlier today, al-Haj landed in his hometown of Khartoum, Sudan, where he ...

Worldwide Support for Free Media

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

worldwide-support.jpg By Mick Meaney - RINF | A new major survey of world nations has found the majority of people support a free media and strongly object to government control on both traditional and Internet news organisations. The poll was conducted by WorldPublicOpinion.org and involved 18,122 respondents in 20 of the world's largest nations including the United States, Great Britain, China, Russia, India, Egypt, ...

Poll: Bush most unpopular in modern history

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

bushpoll08.jpgCNN |  A new poll suggests that George W. Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history. A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Thursday indicates that 71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush his handling his job as president."No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup poll; in fact, ...

TV Networks Silenced Anti-War Voices

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

tvnews.jpgBy Jeff Cohen | In the fall of 2002, week after week, I argued vigorously against invading Iraq in debates televised on MSNBC. I used every possible argument that might sway mainstream viewers – no real threat, cost, instability. But as the war neared, my debates were terminated. In my 2006 book Cable News Confidential, I ...

Murdoch accused as top US editor resigns

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

murdoch2.jpgBy Andrew Clark - The Guardian | Four months after buying the Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch has been accused by a special independent committee of breaking "the letter and the spirit" of an agreement to protect editorial integrity. A five-strong committee established as a condition of the Bancroft family's $5bn (£2.5bn) sale of the paper's ...

Pentagon cuts ties with mouthpieces

Monday, April 28th, 2008

pentagonmouth.jpgThe Pentagon has temporarily stopped feeding information to pundits who generate 'favorable' war coverage for the Bush administration. According to The New York Times, the Defense Department had been giving information to retired military officers serving as pundits for various media organizations in a bid to garner favorable media coverage of the White House wartime performance. "Analysts have been wooed in hundreds of ...

Pentagon Propaganda Worse Than We Thought

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

pentagon-propaganda.jpgBy John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton - PR Watch | David Barstow of the New York Times has written the first installment in what is already a stunning exposé of the Bush Administration's most powerful propaganda weapon used to sell and manage the war on Iraq: the embedding of military propagandists directly into the TV networks as on-air commentators. We and others have ...

Fallout from New York Times “Pentagon Pundits” Story

Friday, April 25th, 2008

nytimes.jpgIPA | The recent New York Times front-page article "Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand" discloses Pentagon records which "reveal a symbiotic relationship where the usual dividing lines between government and journalism have been obliterated. "Internal Pentagon documents repeatedly refer to the military analysts [on TV] as 'message force multipliers' or 'surrogates' who could be counted on to deliver administration 'themes and ...

Murdoch to buy New York rival

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

murdoch.jpgTHE US publishing company Tribune has agreed in principle to sell the New York newspaper Newsday to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp for about $US580 million ($616million). Under the terms of a deal, Newsday would be part of a joint venture with the New York Post and other News Corp assets, The Wall Street Journal reported. News Corp would own most of ...

The most potent weapon wielded by Murdoch and China

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

monbiot.jpgBy George Monbiot | If you want to know how powerful Rupert Murdoch is, read the reviews of Bruce Dover's book, Rupert's Adventures in China. Well, go on, read them. You can't find any? I rest my case. Dover was Murdoch's vice-president in China, and took his orders directly from the boss. His book, which was published in ...

Behind Analysts, the Pentagon’s Hidden Hand

Monday, April 21st, 2008

pentagon1.jpgBy DAVID BARSTOW In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantánamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded “the gulag of our times” by Amnesty International, there were new allegations of abuse from ...

Israeli Troops Kill Reuters Cameraman

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Democracy Now! Among the dead was twenty-three-year-old Fadel Shana, a cameraman for the Reuters news agency. He was killed when an Israeli tank shell struck his clearly marked jeep. Shana was filming at the time of his death. Reuters released the video from his camera. It shows the shell being fired from a distance and then moments later the camera goes black. Reuters editor-in-chief David Schlesinger called Shana’s ...
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