Only 28 percent know that nearly 4,000 U.S. troops have been killed
Twenty-eight percent of the public is aware that nearly 4,000 U.S. personnel have died in Iraq over the past five years, while nearly half thinks the death tally is 3,000 or fewer and 23 percent think it is higher, according to an opinion survey [¡¦]
Israel will boycott Al-Jazeera over what it calls the channel¡¯s ¡®biased coverage¡¯ of the regime¡¯s military operation in Gaza.
The regime¡¯s foreign ministry has held discussions on the matter and decided to impose an official embargo on the Qatar-based station in the coming days, deputy foreign minister Majali Wahbe told Army Radio on Wednesday.
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By Nicholas Christian
PRINCE Harry¡¯s tour of duty in Afghanistan was a ¡°PR stunt¡± that has not fooled the British public, publicist Max Clifford has claimed.
The Royal¡¯s 10-week deployment at the front was ¡°virtual reality¡± because Army chiefs would have kept him away from any actual danger of being hurt, the PR guru added. He said [¡¦]
Case that riled privacy advocates turns on unrelated technicalities
By Jaikumar Vijayan
In a move sure to be welcomed by privacy and civil rights advocates, a California District Court judge on Friday lifted a previous permanent injunction that he had issued two weeks ago to disable the controversial Wikileaks.org whistleblower Web site.
Judge Jeffrey White of the U.S. District Court [¡¦]
Zogby Poll - 67% View Traditional Journalism as ¡°Out of Touch¡±
Internet is the top source of news for nearly half of Americans; Survey finds two-thirds dissatisfied with the quality of journalism
Two thirds of Americans - 67% - believe traditional journalism is out of touch with what Americans want from their news, a new We Media/Zogby Interactive [¡¦]
No surprise that the complaint was not upheld, The finding is a joke as you would imagine. For example, the BBC¡¯s idea of ¡®investigation¡¯ regarding Mayor Willie Brown not flying on 911 is to phone his office and ask if the reports of a tip off were true!
The entire results below:
FINDING BY THE EDITORIAL STANDARDS [¡¦]
By Sarah Lagan
Journalists, anti war activists and religious groups held a protest outside the Daily Express offices today against a series of stories and headlines in the paper which they say encourage ¡°racist stereotyping and contempt¡±.
Around forty protesters and journalists turned up to the event organised by Media Workers Against War and the Stop [¡¦]
An award winning documentary exploring the role of the mass media during the War on ¡®Terror¡¯ & Economic trade. Consider a wide range of viewpoints from mainstream news editors, computer hackers, journalists and media activists. Discover how new technology, such as the Internet and camcorders, are challenging the role of the traditional news gatherer. This [¡¦]
JONATHAN WERVE
Using data from the Global Integrity Index, we put a U.S. court¡¯s recent order to block access to anti-corruption site Wikileaks.org into context. In summary: The Wikileaks.org shutdown is unheard of in the West, and has only been seen in a handful of the most repressive regimes. Good thing it doesn¡¯t work very well.
Starting [¡¦]
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¡°You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month.¡± - CIA operative discussing with Philip Graham, editor Washington Post, on the availability and prices of journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories. ¡°Katherine The Great,¡± by Deborah Davis (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1991) [¡¦]
By Stephen Lendman
RINF Alternative News
For Big Media, truth is a scare commodity and in times of war it¡¯s the first casualty, or as esteemed journalist John Pilger noted: ¡°Journalism (not truth) is the first casualty (of war). Not only that: it(¡¯s)¡¦.a weapon of war (by its) virulent censorship¡¦.by omission (and its) power¡¦.can mean¡¦.life and death [¡¦]
By Sharon Weinberger
¡°The strategic communication problem is to make good news as entertaining as bad news,¡± says a new report by the Defense Science Board, a senior-level Pentagon advisory panel that normally looks at science and technology issues.
Though the panel has done other reports on strategic communication, this one is significant in that the [¡¦]
Statements made in the media can surreptitiously plant distortions in the minds of millions. Learning to recognize two commonly used fallacies can help you separate fact from fiction
By Yvonne Raley and Robert Talisse
In 2003 nearly half of all Americans falsely assumed that the U.S. government had found solid evidence for a link between Iraq and al [¡¦]