Source: Breitbart News Has Always Been A Disaster | Blog | Media Matters for America
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If we learn nothing else from the war on Iraq and its subsequent occupation, it is that the U.S. ruling class has learned to make ideological warfare as important to its operations as military and economic warfare. A crucial component of this ideological war has been the campaign against “left-wing media bias,” with the objective of reducing or eliminating the prospect that mainstream U.S. journalism might be at all critical toward elite interests or the system set up to serve those interests. In 2001 and 2002, no less than three books purporting to demonstrate the media’s leftward tilt rested high atop the bestseller list. Such charges have already influenced media content, pushing journalists to be less critical of right-wing politics. The result has been to reinforce the corporate and rightist bias already built into the media system
Source: The ‘Left-Wing’ Media?
The further consolidation of the Australian media could help the industry overcome its financial woes, but the price will be high. Independence, diversity, and the jobs of many journalists are facing a grave risk, writes Ben Eltham. The Coalition government has announced a new set of media reforms. According to Communications Minister Mitch Fifield, theyMore
Source: Good For Moguls, Bad For Journalists: What The Coalition’s Media Reforms Will Do – New Matilda
The Trump campaign is sticking by Corey Lewandowski and attempting to take Michelle Fields down, for a second time
The office of the Sydney Morning Herald has been a busy place since Paul Sheehan wrote his infamous piece on “Louise”. The column’s racially charged rape allegations have since unravelled. In the two weeks or so since it was published, it has yielded a video plea from the author to the subject, at least five separate apologies, a correction, a retraction, a press council complaint and an internal investigation by the editor-in-chief of the Herald.
Source: Lessons from Louise: the story of Paul Sheehan and the Sydney Morning Herald | The Monthly
One of Turnbull’s plotters, “Even those of us who thought we were insiders learnt something reading her column.
Source: Niki Savva: How journalist went from conservative darling to Abbott ‘she devil’
Waleed Aly is officially “The Most Important Man On TV” according to Men’s Style Australia.
Source: Waleed Aly makes cover debut for Men’s Style Australia
By Kit O’Connell at theantimedia.org New York, NY — Less than half the “facts” broadcast on Fox News are even partially true, according to an ongoing analysis by an independent fact-checking project. Some recent lies told by on-air personalities and guests seem designed to stoke fears over the …
Source: It Turns out Fox News Is Spreading Bulls*!t 80% of the Time AnonHQ
Renowned linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky has criticized Turkish President »»
Source: Chomsky says Erdoğan’s policies moving in dangerous direction
Police fire tear gas and plastic bullets at protesters by offices of Zaman, which has reopened under government control.
Source: Clashes follow state takeover of Turkey’s Zaman daily – Al Jazeera English
An explosive new book examining the downfall of the Abbott government with compelling new insights into the obsessive working relationship between Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin is set to reshape the nation’s political landscape.
Source: Abbott and Credlin: Niki Savva book The Road To Ruin to reveal new insights
Though it too shall pass, Al Jazeera America was a model of the journalism the country desperately needs
Politicians say a lot of things in public, and so it’s only natural that occasionally they will use words incorrectly. Lampooning sometimes follows, and in most cases the mistakes should be quickly forgotten and forgiven. (The exception being gaffes, where an inadvertent truth is revealed, but we can talk about that another time – I’m sure it won’t be long until we have an excuse.) Sometimes, however, our political leaders use a word incorrectly, and deserve to be called out on it. One such case occurred last night.
Source: I do not think that word means what you think it means | The Monthly
Breitbart, Joe Scarborough and Ann Coulter join forces in defending Trump against Megyn Kelly and Roger Ailes
Source: “The Anti-Trump network”: Trump’s boycott of Fox News debate splinters right-wing media – Salon.com
The Fox News anchor says she wants a discussion about substance, not tweets.
Source: Exclusive: Fox News’ Megyn Kelly Calls Donald Trump a ‘Breath of Fresh Air’ | TIME
“What’s Trump afraid of? I’m sitting here,” Moore told Kelly Tuesday evening, “and I feel no fear” VIDEO
Source: Megyn Kelly throws love fest for Michael Moore on Fox News – Salon.com
Here is a selection of videos related to media ownership, media reform etc (ordered by publication date). Perhaps you’d like organise a screening to raise awareness of the issues where you live? If so you’ll find a bunch of screening guides in our Document Library. Please do let us know what other videos should (or …
Source: Videos – Media Reform Coalition
Anarchist Films and Radical Videos
2015 was another year of profound shame for Australia’s mainstream media. Alan Austin reports.
Source: Australia’s media in 2015: a year of distortions, disservice and disgrace
Rolling Stone magazine publishes Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn’s exclusive interview with Joaquin El Chapo Guzman.
Does white privilege now extend to terrorism and open armed rebellion against our government?
Source: Why The Hell Are Our News Media Whitewashing Domestic Terrorism In Oregon? «
Our old friend Cliff Kincaid is back, and he’s as mad as hell. The reason? Michael T. Flynn, a retired American three-star general, attended RT’s conference – and subsequent dinner – on December 10th in Moscow, celebrating the channel’s 10th anniversary.
Source: Like the “Spy Who Loved Me,” America’s “Accuracy in Media” is stuck in 1977 — RT Op-Edge
No other country, with the exception of maybe China, gets as much of a look in as Russia does from the Washington Post’s editorial board.
Source: The Washington Post’s world of good and evil — RT Op-Edge
On March 26, 2007, Chris Matthews said on his television program, “Well, The Washington Post is not the liberal newspaper it was, Congressman, let me tell you. I have been reading it for years and it is a neocon newspaper”.[59] It has regularly published an ideological mixture of op-ed columnists, some of them left-leaning (including E.J. Dionne, Greg Sargent, and Eugene Robinson), and many on the right (including George Will, Marc Thiessen, Robert Kagan, Robert Samuelson, Michael Gerson and Charles Krauthammer).
In November 2007, the newspaper was criticized by independent journalist Robert Parry for reporting on anti-Obama chain e-mails without sufficiently emphasizing to its readers the false nature of the anonymous claims.[60] In 2009, Parry criticized the newspaper for its allegedly unfair reporting on liberal politicians, including Vice President Al Gore and President Barack Obama.[61]
Demonstrating against Xmas in Israel
You, our readers, voted with your clicks. The following is a list of the most popular articles we published this past year. By +972 Magazine Staff 25. Photo exhibit challenges Zionism’s most popular myth Using…
Source: +972 Magazine’s 25 most-read posts of 2015 | +972 Magazine
Imagine the following: after weeks of convincing his editors that it is safe to travel to the US, a journalist from Landistan arrived in Kentucky state. Before his a
Source: Atiaf Zaid Alwazir: The flawed media narrative on Yemen – Your Middle East
The ‘Breitbart Primary’ will be the best election that right wing billionaires can buy.
More and more alternative media sites are basing content via YouTube to give their audience a visual perspective of the world around them without the worry of censorship. Mainstream media have been doing the same since the invention of television but with heavily controlled content. …
What would a world without RT look like? Well, just consider what the media landscape looked like before RT first appeared in 2005. I remember clearly the ease with which neocons and even the ‘decent’ left were able to push the case for war in Iraq in 2003.
Source: A world without RT? That’s just what the Western war lobby wants — RT Op-Edge
Dr. Udo Ulfkotte is a top German journalist and editor and has been for more than two decades, so you can bet he knows a thing or two about mainstream media and what really happens behind the scenes. Recently, Dr. Ulfakatte went on public television stating that he was forced to publish the works of intelligence agents […]
The Project’s Waleed Aly has proven he’s more than just an accomplished journalist and lawyer, he’s also a bit of a rock star.
Source: The Project’s Waleed Aly wows journos with guitar work at Walkley Awards
By Dave Chadwick The public’s hunger for every image and piece of information about terrorist acts and mass murders does not always need to be sated. I question the effort of the media to feed this hunger with endless detailed national coverage when an attack occurs. Do they not realise that this is the exact reaction…
Source: Should the media act more responsibly? – » The Australian Independent Media Network
It has been a year since American reporter Serena Shim was killed on the 19th of October 2014. She was investigating the thousands of foreign jihadists who used Turkey as a stepping stone into Syria, a fact that even Joe Biden would admit on …
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If you’re trying to score a political win against an opponent as formidable as Hillary, here’s what *not* to do
Sarah Dingle
There I was, a journalist of Asian background, listening to a man talk openly about how he had planned to kill as many Asians and Arabs as possible. But call me crazy: I found his honesty refreshing.
Source: My interview with a white supremacist – The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Annabel Crabbe
Budget 2015: The Tradies v the Ladies? Really – The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
We need to talk about how the media exploit the poor.
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