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Media NewsWhite House fed war propaganda to a “complicit” mediaFriday, May 30th, 2008 By Bill Van Auken | In a stunning blow to what very little remains of the Bush administration’s political credibility, the president’s former press secretary Scott McClellan has published a book indicting the White House for launching an “unnecessary” war in Iraq based on false “propaganda.”
Even more telling, particularly coming from an official who was in charge of dealing with ...
TV News Stresses Strategy, Downplays IssuesSunday, May 25th, 2008 TV news coverage of the presidential primaries has focused on campaign strategy rather than candidates' stands on issues, and gave some candidates 100 times more coverage than others, according to a new study by FAIR.
FAIR studied primary election coverage on the nightly broadcast network newscasts in the six weeks leading up to February 5, often referred to this year as “Super-Duper Tuesday,” ...
Propaganda and the mediaMonday, May 19th, 2008 By Joseph L. Galloway | Once upon a time, it was widely believed that one of the greatest sins the U.S. government or its temporary political masters could commit was to turn a propaganda machine loose on the American people.
Congress viewed this so seriously that every appropriations bill passed since 1951 has contained language that ...
BBC kept £106,000 of charity cashFriday, May 9th, 2008 By 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 OnlineWednesday, May 7th, 2008 By 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 freedomMonday, May 5th, 2008 Dawn | 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 GuantánamoMonday, May 5th, 2008 RHC | 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 MediaFriday, May 2nd, 2008
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 historyFriday, May 2nd, 2008 CNN | 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 VoicesWednesday, April 30th, 2008 By 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 resignsWednesday, April 30th, 2008 By 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 mouthpiecesMonday, April 28th, 2008 The 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 ThoughtSaturday, April 26th, 2008 By 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” StoryFriday, April 25th, 2008 IPA |
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 rivalWednesday, April 23rd, 2008 THE 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 ...
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