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News Media Last Updated: May 13th, 2008 - 00:24:01


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All the news that fits -- in 500 words or a graphic
By Walter Brasch

The editors of USA Today, as they do every day, had to decide what to make its lead story.

May 13, 2008, 00:11

News Media
Beyond media revolutions: Are Arab media truly free?
By Ramzy Baroud

On February 12, Arab League information ministers issued a communique outlining 'tough' guidelines for Arab satellite channels. The new guidelines specifically prohibited the broadcasting of negative reporting of heads of state, religious or national figures.

May 8, 2008, 00:12

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The Tibet card
By Joseph M. Cachia

Please help me keep my sanity! As I watched the corporate media coverage of the protests and disruptions during the Olympic torch route, I became angrier than usual over the hypocrisy. Goodness knows how many antiwar protests over the last years have been downplayed and under-covered by the corporate media. Many crimes against humanity are rendered invisible to the public eye, while issues, like those of Sudan and Tibet are highlighted as the only objects of acceptable moral outrage and action.

Apr 24, 2008, 00:22

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For the benefit of Israel, US media stoops to trashing Carter
By Dr. Marwan Asmar

Jimmy Carter�s visit to the Middle East will be remembered not for his meetings with Hamas leaders but for the savagery of the reactions he received from the American media.

Apr 23, 2008, 00:21

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Economic suicide
By Frank Scott

Clearly, the great decider�s brilliance in dealing with climate change and war have roots in his vice-like grip on economic theory. To think that our problems exist because of too much housing in America is not gross oversimplification, but a moronic notion common to our ruling regime. And almost as bad is their opposition, still quibbling over how long to maintain the moral outrage in Iraq and posing as lesser evil by calling for a vague number of years, while the mentally unbalanced regime supporter cites the need for perhaps a century of occupation.

Apr 23, 2008, 00:13

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Basra battles: Barely half the story
By Ramzy Baroud

When it comes to Iraq, reporters appear intent on omitting or fabricating news.

Apr 14, 2008, 00:14

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Toronto 18 suspects undergo trial by media
By Beenish Gaya

The trial of the only remaining youth in the Toronto 18 case commenced last month in a Brampton courtroom. The new details disclosed in the Crown factum filed in the case elicited depressingly new emotional lows in all of the accused and their families. Reminiscent of that fateful day in June 2006, the media sensationalism started all over again, with the reporting of incomplete evidence and outrageous headlines.

Apr 7, 2008, 00:20

News Media
How big is the Animal Farm?
By Gabriele Zamparini

Kim Sengupta is the Defence and Diplomatic Correspondent of The Independent. On 14 March 2008 he authored the second part of an article which curiously had only the signature of his colleague Richard Garner, Education Editor at The Independent. In that article, Sengupta wrote: �Conservative estimates of the number of Iraqi civilians killed since the beginning of the invasion stand at around 85,000.�

Mar 27, 2008, 00:12

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Strangulation in the dark: Palestine, Somalia, and the American corporate media
By Abukar Arman

Whenever the media fail to press and keep the powerful at check the inevitable consequence is prolonged oppression, lethal destruction, and radicalized insurgency. Aside from Baghdad, nowhere is such consequence more evident than in Gaza and Mogadishu.

Mar 3, 2008, 00:37

News Media
Media language and war: Manufacturing convenient realities
By Ramzy Baroud

In the competitive world of media today, swift and conveniently selective reporting is of prime importance. Google News, for example, claims to scan 4,500 news sources, of which only a few are highlighted as main stories. There are thousands of similar services, all competing to produce a story in the fastest time. Thorough -- and thus slower -- reporting of crucial information often appears too little too late.

Feb 11, 2008, 00:13

News Media
Are British media complicit in imposing a blackout on the siege of Gaza?
From Palestinian Solidarity Campaign / British Muslim Initiative

One and a half million citizens of Gaza have been suffering under an atrocious siege imposed by the Israeli occupation and supported by its allies in Europe and the United States. The siege of Gaza and the continuous sanctions against its residents, most of whom are refugees, have caused untold misery to Palestinians who have been suffering from a brutal occupation and oppression for decades.

Jan 24, 2008, 00:52

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The Internet must die
By Warren Pease

You know that you've reached desperate times when you find yourself fondly remembering Tass and Pravda as beacons of journalistic integrity.

Jan 14, 2008, 01:05

News Media
Despite �good news,� Iraq is not okay
By Ramzy Baroud

In recent months we have been inundated by media reports bringing good news from Iraq, with countless testimonials to the great improvement in security enjoyed by the country in general and the Baghdad area in particular. This progress is attributed solely to the judicious �surge� of US military presence, and the astute tactics enacted by occupation forces in a place that once personified despair and violence. Indeed, reports repeatedly point to the figure indicating that violence in Iraq has dwindled by 60 percent in the last three months.

Jan 7, 2008, 01:01

News Media
Game theory and the U.S. presidential election of �08
By Scott Harris

Like every year in the U.S., Christmas is a time when families travel hundreds or thousands of miles to be with one another on the most widely celebrated Christian holiday of the year.

Jan 3, 2008, 00:53

News Media
Oops! The media did it again
By Walter Brasch

Ever vigilant, the mass media dug into a critical social issue and rooted out the information in their never-ending quest to guarantee the people�s right to know.

Dec 21, 2007, 00:10

News Media
Couric B.S. equals mushroom news
By Ted Lang

Sumner Redstone, founder and chairman of Viacom, who also owned and operated Viacom asset Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], orchestrated the split-off of CBS from Viacom in 2006. CBS became a separate publicly traded corporate entity headed by Sumner broadcast associate Leslie Moonves. Redstone continues to hold the controlling interest in CBS and is one of the five richest Zionists who control well over 90 percent of the American corporate, establishment, mainstream media, or MSM.

Dec 18, 2007, 01:15

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Spanish daily, El Pais, seeks to use copyright law to make Rebelion.org shut up or pay up
By Tubal Paez

Inspired by the anti-neoliberal movement and bolstered by the new information and communication technologies, a strong popular dissidence is growing in the battle for ideas around the globe; all in opposition to the existing media totalitarianism that silences or distorts reality.

Dec 4, 2007, 00:36

News Media
A people�s retort to the media�s detached �experts�
By Ramzy Baroud

What do an organic farmer from Spain, a union worker activist from Brazil, and a human rights scholar living in London have in common? They are all individuals who affect substantive change in their communities, and they are also individuals who are overlooked by the corporate media. The latter has its own lists of �experts� -- usually well-groomed males with little involvement in the daily struggles of the unseen and unheard multitudes of the world, yet able to influence their lives (most often detrimentally) from a well-guarded distance.

Nov 28, 2007, 00:38

News Media
Calling all bloggers: Are you �covered� under House �reporter�s shield law�?
By Margie Burns

Yesterday the House passed by a substantial margin its version of the �reporter�s shield law,� titled the Free Flow of Information Act of 2007. The House version differs from the Senate bill of the same title in its definition of �covered person,� basically the definition of who is a journalist.

Oct 19, 2007, 01:42

News Media
Anti-Bush ads refused as �too inflammatory�
From The World Can't Wait

The national political organization World Can�t Wait -- Drive Out the Bush Regime said Friday that they had been refused premium back-page space in the New York City daily newspaper Metro NY based on the content of their ads.

Sep 24, 2007, 00:46


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