Israel, The U.S., and Britain (Are the REAL criminals running the jailhouse?)

The U.S., Great Britain, and Israel are good at playing the victim. They are quick to point out when they have been wronged, but are slow or altogether negligent in pointing out their own mistakes or malicious transgressions.

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Legal Defamation - When Major Media Provides the Outlet for Courts to Disparage Their Critics

Many who challenge government misconduct through legal proceedings amass a virtual warehouse of related papers or files. I certainly have my stash and have seen the similar treasure troves of others, cluttering the floors and counter-tops of their homes and/or offices.

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American press stuck on sunny side of Iraq

Paul Mulshine: Taken as a whole, the memo added up to a complete refutation of the Bush administration's assertions regarding progress in Iraq. I expected to wake up the next morning and see the memo on the front page of every newspaper in America.

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Friends Of The Devil 5: All The Sedition Thats Fit To Print

(a) Whoever knowingly and willfully communicates, furnishes, transmits, or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized person, or publishes, or uses in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United States or for the benefit of any foreign government to the detri …

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Capitalism & US child sexual abuse epidemic

"1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men in the United States are subjected to sexual abuse by the time they reach puberty" ... "capitalist imperative" ... "do on a global scale ... replicate in the family"... "national epidemic".

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Online Media: Where's the Money?

The OnLine BottomLine

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Mainstream Media Lets White House Determine What is News

It means that the fighting, blood-letting and death has gotten so bad that American GIs are battling the resistance right outside the Green Zone. It means that never-ending talk of the "last throes of the insurgency" are, once again, shown to be lies by the reality on the ground.

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Google News? Just deal with it

Google News? Just deal with it, argues news editor of Telegraph website

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Media Omit Basic Facts in Medical Reports

Here's an interesting article from LiveScience - apparently journalists occassionally attend medical conferences where exciting medical announcements or breakthroughs are often discussed. However,

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9/11 conspiracy debate goes mainstream in Italy

The video recently released by the Pentagon heated the debate about the 9/11 events in Italy, eventually making it to the mainstream.

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Whitehall's buried treasures too much to report

Daniel Davies - huge weekly Whitehall info "release" means they are "burying" what should be analyzed & reported; comment: Mainstream Media ignores UNICEF-reported UK-complicit Iraqi, Afghan mass mortality anyway

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The Iraq war and the truth--between blog and corporate media

Faiza al-Arji: I used to think that America was truly the country of democracy and freedom, especially for the media. I used to think the media was independent, neutral and honest because, as they say, it is the fourth estate.

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Where Newspapers kick the Internet's behind

Mark Cuban makes a great point about value in newspapers, "Which is all the more reason that rather than focusing on speed and breaking stories, I personally think newspapers and websites need to define their brands to heavy readers like myself through depth and differentiation.

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Objectivity in journalism

~ When the Citizen Journalism group was dividing up topics for articles, I put my hand up for "Objectivity." My first draft began like this: In the early part of this century, journalists had begun to realise both that they could be subjective and that they could be manipulated.

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CNN Down 38%; Fox News Surrenders!

Turn on The O'Reilly Factor and watch him dance on the falling ratings of newspapers like the LA Times, failure which he attributes to left-wing agendas which he says can only appeal to about 20% of the population that considers themselves of the left.

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Bloggers Strike Back

Glenn Greenwald: Reporting from the blogosphere has already changed the face of politics, journalism and even publishing. And the changes have only just begun.

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Networks Ignore How Big Government Rakes In More than Big Oil

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The Mainstream's Resistance To Podcasters Will Cost Them

Embracing podcasters would be a wiser choice - Katie Couric may have recently jumped ship from NBC, and into the arms of CBS to save their ailing 'Evening News' program, but it will take more than Couric to save the mainstream from its own ignorance.

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Media Bias and Social Networking - A View From the Right

The byline on the protests in France reads, "French students protest in Marseille in what has grown from a protest against a single labor low to an outpouring of discontent with a government that a new generation feels does not represent its interests".

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Op-Ed: CNN Responds to Critique

Your critique of CNN's war coverage indicates that you, reader, are on the 'fringe.' --- On the other hand, this quote from Jonathan Klein of CNN is rather 'interesting:'

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Telegraph | News | What's wrong with using the c-word?

do journalists produce content?

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News media shouldn't imitate blogs

-- WASHINGTON — In blogs we don't trust.

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A Wrongful Birth? - New York Times

The problems with this article are too numerous to detail here, but I've written a Newsvine post detailing just a few of the glaring omissions, misunderstandings, and major flaws in reporting on this complicated issue.

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How the Mainstream Media Get Disability Wrong - Critiquing

Elizabeth Weil's article in the New York Times Magazine, "A Wrongful Birth?" is yet another disappointing example of how mainstream journalism has utterly failed to address disability head on, and to deal with the specific inequities and abuses people living with disabilities and

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The Best Blogging Newspapers in the U.S.*

"Who seems to really know what they're doing…?"

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