Surveys of working journalists have found that they experience pressure from powerful interests to push some stories and ignore others, and to shape or slant news content. The sources of pressure include the government, corporate advertisers, and media owners themselves. Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting prepared this special report.

Journalist Mike Reilley has put together his own website which contains hundreds of helpful research links for professional journalists, organized by topics such as federal and local government, business, science/environment, medical/health, sports, crime/courts, phone directories, finding expert sources, history, writing with numbers, journalism organizations, etc.

The Center for Defense of Free Enterprise, led by anti-environmental "Wise Use" organizers Alan Gottlieb and Ron Arnold, has created this website which claims to "unmask" the Rainforest Action Network for its "ties to other radical groups," "anti-capitalist ideology" and "lawless and dangerous activities." To "unmask" Gottlieb and Arnold themselves, read the Environmental Working Group's excellent backgrounder.