MEDIACHANNEL.ORG -- MEDIA SAVVY
News for the Media Savvy
February 22, 2006
AlterNet's PEEK is your daily cheeky -- and serious -- peek into the progressive blogosphere. Written by AlterNet associate editor Evan Derkacz, PEEK dives into the morass and emerges with the best commentary, analysis and satire so you don't have to. Celebrating its first birthday in February '06, PEEK boasts top-50 traffic and climbing. To stay on top of the progressive blogosphere, subscribe today for free!: http://www.alternet.org/subscribe/ (check the PEEK box).
/ / / / / / / /
PROTESTS PLANNED AGAINST MEDIA WAR COVERAGE
Press to be targeted in national media protest on March 20th. United For Peace and Justice is partnering with MediaChannel.org to focus attention on media complicity in the Iraq war.
http://mediachannel.org/blog/node/3378
= = = =
NYC EVENT: A LOOK INTO THE MAIL ORDER BRIDE INDUSTRY
Please join Gabriela Network – the largest and oldest US-Philippine Women’s solidarity organization – for a film screening of a documentary depicting what is a controversial aspect of human trafficking: the mail order bride industry. The Imaginasian Theater, 23 February 2006, 6:30 pm.
http://mediachannel.org/blog/node/3401
= = = =
RUMSFELD REVERSES: PLANTING STORIES UNDER REVIEW
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday that the Pentagon is reviewing its practice of paying to plant stories in the Iraqi news media, withdrawing his earlier claim that it had been stopped.
By Robert Burns, Associated Press
http://mediachannel.org/blog/node/3385
= = = =
RUMSFELD DECLARES WAR ON BAD PRESS
Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld has signaled that he plans to intensify a campaign to influence global media coverage of the United States, a move that is likely to heighten the debate over press freedom and propaganda-free reporting.
By Emad Mekay, Inter Press Service
http://mediachannel.org/blog/node/3387
= = = =
THE DEVIL IS IN THE LACK OF DETAILS: THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT'S MEDIA CONTRACTS
Although they've done their best to keep their spinning from public scrutiny, several major incidents have exposed the Bush administration's manipulation of news media: The "sell job" for the invasion of Iraq. Payola pundits Armstrong Williams, Maggie Gallagher and Michael McManus. Stooge "reporter" Jeff Gannon / James Guckert. Video news releases determined to be covert propaganda by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO).
By Diane Farsetta , Center for Media and Democracy
http://mediachannel.org/blog/node/3390
= = = =
NATIONAL SECURITY WHISTLEBLOWERS
Find illegal activity in the U.S. national security agency you work for. Report it to your superiors. Get rewarded by being demoted or having your security clearance revoked -- tantamount to losing your career – while those whose conduct you’ve reported get promoted.
By William Fisher, MediaChannel
http://mediachannel.org/blog/node/3383
= = = =
BROADCAST BLUES: OR WHY IRAQ IS NOT ON TV
The Bush administration obviously cannot be trusted to portray events in Iraq in an honest way to the public. That leaves the mass media, and the mass media is doing a lousy job.
By Peter Beinart, The New Republic
http://mediachannel.org/blog/node/3384
= = = =
ANOTHER INEXPLICABLE SILENCE ON GUANTANAMO
When the UN Human Rights Commission last Thursday released its report on the conditions at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, alleging that "torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" was taking place and that the camp should be shut down, the news was met with a chorus of yawns.
By Gal Beckerman, CJR Daily
http://mediachannel.org/blog/node/3388
= = = =
The gravest indictment of the American news media is that George W. Bush has gutted the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Geneva Conventions and the United Nations Charter – yet this extraordinary story does not lead the nation’s newspapers and the evening news every day.
By Robert Parry, The Consortium News
http://mediachannel.org/blog/node/3394
= = = =
Propaganda campaign portrays Iran as a pariah state
By Ghali Hassan, Center for Research on Globalization
http://mediachannel.org/blog/node/3395
= = = =
FUROR OVER CARTOONS PITS MUSLIM AGAINST MUSLIM
A side of the cartoon conflict little discussed is the intra-Muslim side.
By Michael Slackman and Hassan M. Fattah, NY Times
http://mediachannel.org/blog/node/3393
= = = =
NEW ANTI US MOVIE STIRS DEBATE
A Turkish movie, "Valley of the Wolves: Iraq,” based in part on a popular TV series, has ignited a global controversy with supporters suggesting it is a “Rambo in Reverse.” The action movie shows US soldiers committing war crimes.
MediaChannel.org
http://mediachannel.org/blog/node/3382
= = = =
CPJ RELEASES ATTACK ON GAMBIAN PRESS
The tightening of repressive media laws and the failure to solve the December 2004 murder of veteran journalist Deyda Hydara added to the climate of violence and intimidation faced by private media in 2005 in The Gambia.
The Independent (via AllAfrica.com)
http://mediachannel.org/blog/node/3392
= = = =
MOGULS FORCE DELAY IN AUSTRALIA MEDIA LAW CHANGES
Last minute lobbying by the Packer and Murdoch interests has halted government plans to deregulate Australia media ownership. The communications minister, Helen Coonan, was due to unveil the blueprint for media reform this month.
By Cosima Marriner, The Guardian
http://mediachannel.org/blog/node/3398
= = = =
CHINA DELAYS TRIAL OF NEW YORK TIMES MAN
The trial of a Chinese researcher charged with revealing state secrets while working for the New York Times is expected to take place before the end of March, following a one-month delay.
By Julia Day and agencies, The Guardian
http://mediachannel.org/blog/node/3396
= = = =
WOODWARD WARNS OF SECRECY TREND
The greatest threat to America's democracy is not terrorism but governmental secrecy, said Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward, whose reporting 35 years ago pierced the veil of secrecy behind Richard Nixon's presidency.
By Tracy Idell Hamilton, Express-News
http://mediachannel.org/blog/node/3397
= = = =
REPORTERS SMELL FRESH NARRATIVE, POUNCE
2006 is an election year and already we can detect the rustle of reporters converging on what conventional wisdom tells them is the hot storyline of the campaign: In congressional districts across the country, veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are running for Congress -- as Democrats!
By Paul McLeary, CJR Daily
http://mediachannel.org/blog/node/3389
= = = =
FRIENDS OF SCOOTER LIBBY LAUNCH WEB SITE, WANT YOUR MONEY
Scooter has come to Web, with the launch of a new site, the Libby Legal Defense Trust.
By E&P Staff, Editor & Publisher
http://mediachannel.org/blog/node/3391
= = = =
U.S. TECHNOLOGY HAS BEEN USED TO BLOCK, CENSOR NET FOR YEARS
If you think there's something new or unique about Google censoring its Chinese website or Websense helping Yemen filter the Net — well, I hate to disappoint you. Those congressmen acting surprised about this stuff are either grandstanding or ignorant, or maybe both. To varying degrees, U.S. tech companies help repressive regimes around the world sift, block and censor the Net. They've been doing it for years.
USA Today
http://mediachannel.org/blog/node/3386
= = = =
YAHOO!MAIL BANS ALLAH AND DIRTY HARRY HANDLES
Yahoo! is banning the use of allah in email names - even if the letters are included within another name, like Callahan.
By John Oates, The Register
http://mediachannel.org/blog/node/3399
= = = =
"Cheney's Got a Gun" has been blanketing the airwaves coast to coast and is being downloaded around the world! Now you can watch the new music video to the funny song parody of Aerosmith's "Janie’s Got a Gun.”
The Bob River’s Show (via Political Humor)
http://mediachannel.org/blog/node/3400
= = = =
No comments:
Post a Comment