Sept 7 in Milwaukee: Future of Media FCC Hearing
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Inclusive Fake News Practices
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PR Week has good news for marketers and PR professionals seeking to reach Black audiences: there are "about 1,100 [radio] stations in the U.S. programmed toward African Americans. ...
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Hijacking 9/11
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The FireDogLake weblog has featured an article by Sheldon Rampton describing the ABC television network's plan to broadcast a right-wing "docudrama" that attempts to place a lion’s share of the blame for the 9/11 terrorist attacks on alleged failures of the Clinton administration.
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Kenneth Tomlinson Caught Horsing Around
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The State Department Inspector General has released a report finding that Kenneth Tomlinson, the head of the agency overseeing most government broadcasts to foreign countries has used his office to run a “horse racing operation” and that he improperly put a friend on the payroll.
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Wanted: Wisconsin Media Activists for FCC Hearing
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NEWS RELEASE: CMD Commends FCC Investigation of Fake TV News
For Immediate Release
Contact: Diane Farsetta or John Stauber, 608-260-9713
Center for Media and Democracy Commends FCC Investigation of Fake TV News
PsyOps: The Other Middle East Air War
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"Cell phones and land lines across Lebanon have been ringing with automated, recorded messages -- part of a propaganda war being waged along with Israel's assault on Lebanon," reports Associated Press. "The Israeli army has refused to confirm that is is behind the phone calls.
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Half of Americans Still Believe In WMDs - They Saw Them on TV
A recent Harris Poll reports found that while “the U.S. and other countries have not found any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, surprisingly more U.S. adults (50%) think that Iraq had such weapons when the U.S. invaded Iraq. This is an increase from 36 percent in February 2005.”
No Green on the TV Screen - Networks Short the Environment
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"Environmental coverage -- not counting natural disasters and weather -- dropped nearly to record low levels in 2005 on the three national broadcast networks' weekday nightly newscasts," according to a new study by Andrew Tyndall. Throughout 2005, the newscasts of ABC, CBS and NBC combined spent just 168 minutes on environmental news. Since 1988, the three networks have spent an average of two percent of their newscasts on environmental news and four percent on natural disasters.
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Congresspedia/SourceWatch gets wiki-mania
I’m currently at the Citizen Journalism "unconference" at the Wikimania 2006 conference in Boston with a joint team from the Sunlight Foundation and the Center for Media and Democracy.
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