Russia Dolls Up Its Image with New Groups
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
The Russian government, upset at criticism from such foreign-funded organizations as the U.S. think tank Freedom House, is turning the tables.
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Whither the Weather?
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security "is paying a Pennsylvania ad firm to pitch 'pre-written' winter-weather-preparedness articles" to national and local media.
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FCC to Extend a Life Raft to News Viewers
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein said he expected the U.S.
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More Selective Science from Pharmaceutical Front Group
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The Center for Science in the Public Interest is criticizing the Providence Journal for publishing an op-ed article by Robert Goldberg while failing to disclose that Goldberg and his organization, the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest
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News Director Sickened by Proposed Hospital Agreement
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
"I could not with a clear conscience go into that newsroom and tell the staff that this was a good thing," explained former WEAU-13 news director Glen Mabie. Mabie resigned from the northwest Wisconsin television station "because of a disagreement ...
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San Francisco Zoo Hires PR Flack to Try and Save its Skin After Tiger Mauling
Submitted by Anne Landman on
Look, but don't taunt.The situation was about as bad as it could get for a zoo. On Christmas Day, Tatiana the tiger escaped from her enclosure in the San Francisco Zoo, mauled a 17 year old boy to death and severely injured two of his companions.
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Journalism as Consumer Product?
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
Under the current rules of journalism, writes Edward Wasserman, coverage is rewarded if it "racks up the page-views, attracting audiences through search engines and enabling publishers to charge advertisers more." The problem (which Britney Spears seems determined to demonstrate) is that a story's popularity often has little to do with its importance. "Journalists don't peddle goods, they offer a professional service, a relationship," Wasserman writes.
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Stars and Stripes Fights DoD Hype
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"Top editors at the military newspaper Stars and Stripes are asking for full disclosure of the paper's relationship with a Department of Defense publicity program, called America Supports You, after disclosures that money for the program was funneled through the newspaper," reports Sara Abruzzesse. "The newspaper's two top editors have asked that the acting publisher, Max D.
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Dumbing Down Dateline
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, recalls former Dateline NBC correspondent John Hockenberry, the network diverted him from reporting on al Qaeda and instead wanted him to come up with a version of "the show Cops, only with firefighters." During the invasion of Iraq, a network exec axed a segment featuring "a reporter in Baghdad who was experiencing the bombing firsthand" on grounds that it conveyed "a point of view." Hockenberry sees these stories as lessons about how t
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The Taming of Al Jazeera
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The New York Times reports, "When a Saudi court sentenced a young woman to 200 lashes in November after she pressed charges against seven men who had raped her, the case provoked outrage and headlines around the world, including in the Middle East. But not at Al Jazeera, the Arab world's leading satellite television channel, seen by 40 million people. ...
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