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Campus Ink Tanks

Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on

At the Jesse Helms Center in North Carolina, more than a dozen earnest college students gathered for training in how to start their own conservative newspapers and opinion journals and how to pick fights with lefty bogeymen on the faculty and in student government. "By the end of the day, the student journalists were fired up for battle," writes John Johnson, "determined not only to change the tenor of notoriously liberal campus dialogues, but also, in the long run, to alter the basic makeup of the nation's professional news outlets. ...

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Main Source: 
Los Angeles Times, May 7, 2003
Topics: 
Right Wing
Journalism
Education

CNN's Reliably Narrow Sources

Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on

The media watchdog FAIR/Extra! has studied the guestlist of CNN's Reliable Sources to see how many critical voices were heard on the program that claims to "turn a critical lens on the media." Covering one year of weekly programs, the FAIR study found that Reliable Sources strongly favored mainstream media insiders and right-leaning pundits. In addition, female critics were significantly underrepresented, and ethnic minority voices were almost non-existent.

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Main Source: 
FAIR, March/April 2003
Topics: 
Left Wing
Right Wing
Journalism
Women

Pro-War Rally Gets PR Help

Submitted by Laura Miller on

"Shirley & Banister Public Affairs helped put together one of the largest pro-Bush rallies during the Iraq war on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., last Saturday, starring Republican heavyweights G. Gordon Liddy, former senator and actor Fred Thompson and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, among others," O'Dwyer's PR Daily reports. "The event, which drew between five and ten thousand people, was staged for longtime client Citizens United Foundation. ...

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Main Source: 
O'Dwyer's PR Daily, April 17, 2003
Topics: 
Right Wing
Iraq
Public Relations

Neo-Nazi Hoax Exploits Iraqi War Bias

Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on

An anti-Semitic web site called the "Barnes Report" is distributing fake whistleblower memos on media bias in the Iraq war that attempt to exploit public skepticism about the accuracy of U.S. news coverage. Excerpts from the alleged memos appear on a series of web pages titled "Controlling the News." The "memos" instruct reporters to avoid showing scenes of violence from the war and to stress images that depict U.S. policy in a favorable light.

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Main Source: 
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Fake_whistleblower_memos_on_media_b…
Topics: 
Right Wing
Iraq
Propaganda
Race / Ethnic Issues

MSNBC & CNN Imitating the Far-Right 'Fox Effect'

Submitted by John Stauber on

The New York Times reports on the 'Fox Effect' of MSNBC and CNN imitating Fox's vicious style of biased, nationalistic reporting. "...[I]t has been the Fox News Channel, owned by [Rupert Murdoch's] News Corporation, that has emerged as the most-watched source of cable news by far, with anchors and commentators who skewer the mainstream media, disparage the French and flay anybody else who questions President Bush's war effort. ... Fox's formula had already proved there were huge ratings in opinionated news with an America-first flair.

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Main Source: 
New York Times, April 16, 2003
Topics: 
Right Wing
Iraq
Media

Who Needs Movies? We've Got the FOX War Channel.

Submitted by John Stauber on

"Nearly every military-related film
to reach theaters this year has been a box-office
disappointment, leaving some in Hollywood to question how
much the 24-hour news coverage of the Iraq invasion has
dimmed the public appetite for images of combat," and "some critics suggest that
moviegoers are staying away because they have plenty of
real-time war action already on cable and network news
programs. 'When television came on with 24-hour news channels, it
changed what we needed,' said Jeanine Basinger, chairman of

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Main Source: 
New York Times, April 14, 2003
Topics: 
Right Wing
Iraq
Media

Luntz Memo Helps To Greenwash Republicans

Submitted by John Stauber on

"Over the last six months, the
Republican Party has subtly refocused its message on the
environment, an issue that a party strategist Frank Luntz called 'the
single biggest vulnerability for the Republicans and
especially for George Bush' in a memorandum encouraging the
new approach. The Republicans, as the memorandum advised them, have
softened their language to appeal to suburban voters,
speaking out for protecting national parks and forests,

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Main Source: 
New York Times, March 2, 2003
Topics: 
Right Wing
Environment
Rhetoric

Anti-Chavez All The Time

Submitted by Laura Miller on

As the so-called general strike against Venezuelean President Hugo Chavez comes to an end, Venezuelan television will begin broadcasting advertising again. For the two months of the strike, "the only commercials on Venezuelan TV were the opposition's relentless barrage of powerful and often witty

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Main Source: 
Advertising Age, February 10, 2003
Topics: 
Left Wing
Right Wing
International
Media
Politics

Republicans Seek a Few Good African Americans

Submitted by John Stauber on

Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten feels "sorry for African American Republicans. They've never had it real good ... So I was heartened when I happened on a Web site last month run by a group called the African American Republican Leadership Council. ... The honorary chairman of the panel is listed as former U.S. senator Edward W. Brooke III, a Republican from Massachusetts. So I called up Brooke, who confirmed the important fact that he is black. Alas, he is not in any way associated with the group.

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Main Source: 
Washington Post, February 2, 2003
Topics: 
Right Wing
Front Groups
Race / Ethnic Issues

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