Category: Mainstream Media
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Friday, May 18, 2012
We Need A Media War On All Fronts / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Danny_Schechter
When do you feel like you are over the hill?
When you get letters like this one from Jose Hevia after writing an op ed featuring an essay (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...) from your recent book Blogothon, (http://www.1888pressrelease.com/...) recounting your experiences as a network TV insider turned independent media outsider. The essay offered a case study of how the nominally non-commercial network, PBS, turned its back on a human rights TV series I co-produced. It is about the challenges progressives face in offering a counter-narrative to parochial mainstream thinking.
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Sunday, May 13, 2012
The Axis of Indifference In The Media World / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Danny_Schechter
Foreign correspondents have always been revered within journalism. That’s why covering Iraq or other wars are assignments so many reporters cultivate. Many see them as a ticket up the media pecking order.
Being “under fire” promise excitement, danger and—let’s face it, on TV —precious “face time.” Going overseas is often a route to more visibility and better jobs at home on the strength of your “bravery/” War reporting can be the macho oxygen of ambition.
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Tuesday, May 01, 2012
What Magazine Covers Really Say About the Stock Market / InvestorEducation / Mainstream Media
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: Will Rogers once said that "good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment."
If he only knew.
Then again, as one of America's famous humorists and social commentators, I suspect he "knew" all too well that history rarely works out the way people think.
Monday, April 09, 2012
Sayonara To Mike Wallace And The News Era He Led / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Danny_Schechter
New York: Mike Wallace lived a long life and became one of America’s best-known non-anchor news stars, whose frequent appearances stirred controversies and broke countless stories.
The picture in the New York Times obit showed his wall of Emmys—I am sure he had a museumfull—all thanks to his relentless drive and unlimited energy.
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Thursday, February 02, 2012
Mainstream Media Drivel on U.S. / Israel Iran War Plans / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Finian_Cunningham
Thanks to a subservient mainstream media, we are now fed a constant diet of preposterous double-think from American political leaders and their Israeli minions with regard to Iran and its alleged threat to world security. In this inadvertently valuable service, the pliant uncritical mainstream media is giving full vent to the most outrageous drivel dressed up as serious discourse.
Monday, January 23, 2012
UK Ban of Press TV, The New Media War! / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Danny_Schechter
The British media regulator OFCOM has pulled Press TV’s license to be seen in the United Kingdom.
The regulator that has done so little to regulate the methods of Rupert. Murdoch’s media practices, or BBC’s tilted coverage of the war in Iraq, has suddenly decided that the Iran’s global English language channel must be sanctioned by being removed and silenced. (Ironically, it was Murdoch’s BSKYB channel that carried Press TV in the UK)
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Thursday, August 25, 2011
Western Mainstream Media Complicit in NATO War Crimes in Libya / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Finian_Cunningham
Libya represents a new low in Western government war crimes – which is something of a disturbing record given the decades of war criminality by these governments.
In Libya, not only is there the criminal military assault on a sovereign country, the destruction of civilian infrastructure, the murder of women and children, and all the violation of international law that that entails – we now have the complete lobotomisation of language and normal meaning of words.
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Sunday, August 21, 2011
Monetizing Electoral Politics: TV Networks Are Out To Sell, Not Tell / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Danny_Schechter
Already the projections are in—not for who is going to win the election in 2012---but for how much it is likely to cost.
Public Radio International concludes: “Campaign spending in the 2012 US election could reach $6 or 7 billion dollars as outside groups pay for electoral influence.”
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
The Mainstream Media Are Paid To Lie for the State / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: LewRockwell
Scott Lazarowitz writes: It’s bad enough the possibility that there might have been some hanky-panky going on regarding the vote count at the Iowa Straw Poll this week, in which Ron Paul received 4,671 votes to Michele Bachmann’s 4,823, a difference of just 152 votes. But to see one national media outlet after another completely ignoring Dr. Paul’s virtual tie for the #1 spot, and others who continue to dismiss Paul as "fringe," despite Paul’s being the most mainstream and commonsensical of all the candidates, is amazing.
Friday, July 22, 2011
Norway Terror Bomber, Shooter Photo, Murdoch Press 'The Sun' Blames Al-Qeada! / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The horrific events in Oslo, Norway today that started with a large city centre bomb blast shortly followed by a nearby shoot spree at holiday island of Utoya have resulted in at least 80 murders, most of whom are teenagers.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011
More Trouble in Murdoch-world / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Mike_Whitney
Rupert Murdoch's troubles keep piling up.
On Friday, Labor leader Ed Miliband called for a break-up of the Murdoch empire saying, "I think he has too much power over British public life.....We’ve got to look at the situation whereby one person can own more than 20 percent of the newspaper market....I think it’s unhealthy.”
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
10 Questions The MPs Will Not Ask Murdoch / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Submissions
Robin Beste writes: What was it about the relationship with Murdoch that made Tony Blair feel it was appropriate to take a phone call from a newspaper proprietor just hours prior to the most momentous decision a prime minister can make: ordering the country's armed forces to war?
Saturday, July 09, 2011
Murdoch Heads for a Fall / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Mike_Whitney
Boy, this is about as sleazy as it gets....
Imagine that your 13-year old daughter has been kidnapped and you have no idea where she is. So you frantically call her cell phone over and over clinging to the faint hope that she might still be alive. And, then, a miracle happens; you notice that messages on her phone have been deleted signalling that she's still alive but unable to call back.
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Murdoch Press Sinks to New Depths of Depravity, Hacking the Phones of Murdered School Girls / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Nadeem_Walayat
There is a cancerous growth at the heart of British journalism and it emanates out of the Murdoch Press / News International that as unfolding revelations show permeates the whole print mainstream press.
Sunday, July 03, 2011
Russia Today Schizophrenia, State Funded Propaganda and the Global Media War / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: William_Bowles
Is Russia Today a sign of things to come in the world media order?
A global, digital media cuts both ways or as they say 'what's good for the goose is also good for the gander'. The arrival of The Real News Network, Democracy Now! and grtv for example demonstrates what can be done, even on a shoestring budget. But to get onto the global media circuit still requires big bucks in spite of all the talk about 'convergence' and 'citizen journalism'.
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