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How Will the Media Cover the Peace Movement ?

Submitted by John Stauber on

The New York Times today reports that "in interviews with two dozen New Yorkers, most people said the desire for peace outweighed any impulse for vengeance, even among those directly affected" by the September 11 terrorist attack. Across the U.S. tens of thousands of Americans are already participating in peace rallies calling for military restraint and criticizing the U.S. media for poor reporting of U.S. military and foreign policies leading up to the terrorist attack. How will the news media cover and depict this unfolding peace movement and its views?

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Main Source: 
New York Times, September 20, 2001
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Media
War / Peace

TV Fans the Flames of War, But Common Dreams Go Deeper

Submitted by John Stauber on

Common Dreams is one website providing an important alternative to mainstream TV coverage. TV commentators are increasingly fanning flames of war and rapid retaliation. "Americans are anxious to have some sort of retaliation take place," National Public Radio and FOX TV commentator Juan Williams stated today during FOX coverage featuring stirring music videos of Tuesday's attack set to patriotic songs.

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Main Source: 
http://www.commondreams.org/
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Left Wing
Media
War / Peace

CBS Helps Polish CIA's Image

Submitted by Laura Miller on

CBS's new dramatic series about the Central Intelligence Agency, called "The Agency," brings into question the relationship between the network and the government agency. CBS has received input on scripts and support from the CIA for the program, which premieres this month. Jeff Cohen, founder of Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting and Newsday columnists, compares the new series to the sixties TV-show "The FBI," produced by ABC with the blessing and cooperation of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI.

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Main Source: 
Newsday, September 4, 2001
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Media
U.S. Government

U.S. Newswire Outlines Upcoming Newsmaking Opportunities

Submitted by Laura Miller on

U.S. Newswire, a for-profit press release distribution service, faxed the PR Watch office advising us of "numerous newsmaking opportunities." "You should be working now to position your organization as a key news source for media working on these and other stories," said the news release. "One of the best ways to do this is via U.S. Newswire.

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Main Source: 
U.S. Newswire Press Release, August 29, 2001
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Media

Free the Politicians

Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on

A recent survey of politicians found that they are as frustrated as the rest of us with the corruption of modern politics. The University of Maryland interviewed 7,500 winning and losing candidates for election and found that most candidates want the focus of campaigning more on the substance of policy ideas and were frustrated by the media's tendency to focus on personal foibles and insider clashes.

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Main Source: 
Campaigns and Elections, August 25, 2001
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Media
Politics

Product Placement on "The Hughleys"

Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on

The Omnicom Group is negotiating a deal with Viacom Inc.'s UPN network to arrange product placements on UPN's TV programs in exchange for Omnicom buying $30 million in TV ads. According to industry executives, part of the deal calls for McDonald's to be scripted into ''The Hughleys,'' a sitcom about an African-American suburban family starring comic D.L. Hughley. Other clients whose products will be scripted into UPN shows include Cingular Wireless, Gillette, Sony's PlayStation, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance and Vivendi Universal's Universal Pictures.

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Main Source: 
Reuters, August 24, 2001
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Marketing
Media

Reading, Writing and Propaganda

Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on

Channel One, which beams TV news programs and commercials into thousands of schools in the U.S., has broadcast dozens of news segments which contained anti-drug messages in the past three years -- and received millions of dollars' worth of ad credits from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy for doing so.

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Main Source: 
Salon.com, August 8, 2001
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Marketing
Media

Think Tank Media Visibility Up

Submitted by Laura Miller on

Media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting reports in the latest issue of their magazine Extra! that media citations of think tanks grew 29 percent in 2000. Progressive groups, like the Economic Policy Institute, Urban Institute, and Justice Policy Institute, saw a significant increase in references to them in electronic media. Conservative and right-leaning think tanks, however, still got half of all media citations.

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Main Source: 
Extra! August 2001
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Media
Think Tanks

Sunday Political Shows Ignore Corporate Power

Submitted by Laura Miller on

The Sunday morning political talk shows shut out issues related to corporate power. That is the primary conclusion of a new report issued by Essential Information, a Ralph Nader founded organization based in Washington, DC. A quantitative analysis of transcripts broadcast over a period of eighteen months from four talk shows -- The McLaughlin Group, Meet the Press, Face the Nation, This Week -- found that topics related to corporate power -- such as the environment, corporate welfare, and free trade -- make up less than 4% of the shows' discussion topics.

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Main Source: 
Corporate Crime Reporter, July 23, 2001
Topics: 
Corporations
Media
Politics

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