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War Made Easy
 Norman Solomon
When The New York Times published its explosive "Pentagon Pundits" story on April 20, the result was a wave of criticism directed at the Defense Department for manipulating TV news coverage of the Iraq war.
Rights Group Highlight Threats in Europe on Press Freedom Day
 Agence France-Presse
Media rights campaigners Reporters Without Borders (RSF) marked World Press Freedom Day Saturday by highlighting threats to journalists' safety inside Europe.
The Right's America-Hating Preacher
 Robert Parry
One of the advantages that the American Right has achieved from investing tens of billions of dollars in media, is the ability to define what is and what isn't a "scandal," a powerful factor in determining who wins national elections.
Indigenous Journalists Murdered in Mexico
 Rick Kearns
On April 7, two indigenous radio journalists were shot to death near Oaxaca in an ambush that also wounded two adults and their two young children. Human rights and reporters' advocates are calling the incident an assassination; they are also asserting that it was not an isolated incident.
 BBC Anchor Who Reported on WTC7 Collapse: ‘Conspiracy’ a Possibility
 Aaron Dykes
Members of We Are Change UK questioned ex-BBC reporter Phil Hayton about the early reporting of WTC 7’s collapse during a speaking appearance.
5 Journalists Get Stamp of Approval
 Michael A. Chihak
Fifty-thousand proposals for new postage stamps are submitted to the U.S. Postal Service each year. Only about 25 are chosen, making the odds no better than 1 in 2,000 that someone will be honored on a stamp So when word came that five journalists had been selected for stamps commemorating their work, there was great celebration.
Mexican Journalists Still Under Siege in 2008
Frontra NorteSur
Despite the creation of a special federal prosecutor and protests from virtually all international press organizations, new attacks against journalists in Mexico continue to mount while old ones go unpunished.
US News Media's Latest Disgrace
 Robert Parry
After prying loose 8,000 pages of Pentagon documents, the New York Times has proven what should have been obvious years ago: the Bush administration manipulated public opinion on the Iraq War, in part, by funneling propaganda through former senior military officers who served as expert analysts on TV news shows.
An Open Letter to Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos
 Will Bunch
It's hard to know where to begin with this, less than an hour after you signed off from your Democratic presidential debate here in my hometown of Philadelphia, a televised train wreck that my friend and colleague Greg Mitchell has already called, quite accurately, "a shameful night for the U.S. media."
Journalists as Truth-Tellers
 The Nation
Bill Moyers delivered these remarks in Washington, DC, April 3 at the fifth annual Ridenhour Prize awards ceremony, sponsored by The Nation Institute and the Fertel Foundation. Moyers received the Courage Prize.
"The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo" Illuminates and Devastates
 Michael Winship
The title comes from the lead sentence of "Women, War and Peace," a 2002 United Nations report that began, "Violence against women in conflict is one of history's great silences." Lisa Jackson set out to visit and film several of the theaters of war described in the report, but when she made her initial stop in the Democratic Republic of Congo she realized, as she says, "the first was the worst."
Intimidating the Press
 Dan Froomkin
The publication of a new book by Eric Lichtblau is calling attention to how the White House successfully persuaded the Times to suppress its expose of the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program in the fall of 2004 - when it might have had a profound effect on President Bush's reelection hopes.
Media Campaign Denounced in Mexico
 Prensa Latina
Venezuelan, Bolivian and Ecuadorian ambassadors to Mexico denounced the media campaign currently developed against people's governments in Latin America.
Guatemala as Muse and Base for a Writer
 Louise Tutelian
To reach her favorite place in the world, Joyce Maynard flies for five hours from San Francisco, near her main home in Mill Valley, Calif.
Fox on the Run
 James Poniewozik
On super Tuesday, Bush's former brain, Karl Rove, debuted on Fox News Channel as a political analyst. Genteel, wry and armed with terabytes of political minutiae, he won critical raves. ("One of the best things in television news right now," said the New York Times, the equivalent of a Westminster Dog Show hopeful getting endorsed by Cat Fancy.)
Call For New 9/11 Investigation Reaches Crescendo
 Paul Joseph Watson
The corporate media's insistence on ignoring hundreds of professional experts who are calling for a new 9/11 investigation has spurred many celebrities to use their public platforms to speak out, knowing that the press will at least have to address the issue.
Media Raise Awareness of Martin's Plight
 Carissa Cosgrove
Marjorie Bletcher prays everyday that her 51-year-old daughter will be released from a Mexican prison and safely returned to Canada. At least now she has regular conversations with her.
Penn's War: Media Lap Dogs Backed Iraq Mess
 Susan Donaldson James
Sean Penn, the actor-director-turned-political-activist, narrates a new anti-war documentary that alleges U.S. presidents since Kennedy have manipulated the public to wage wars.
Freedom for Cuban Journalists
 The Guardian
Today marks the fifth anniversary of Cuba's Black Spring, when approximately 90 critics of Castro's regime were arrested as "agents of the American enemy".
Latin America: Blogging the Bicentennial
 Diego Cevallos
Three women and four men from Mexico, between the ages of 22 and 25, have begun a journey through seven Latin American countries to document the commemorations in 2009 and 2010 of the bicentennial of independence of the region’s countries from Spain, in videos, still photography and text.
Appalling Spread of False Information Requires Stronger Media Accountability
 Mark Weisbrot
'A free press is supposed to function as our democracy's immune system against . . . gross errors of fact and understanding,' wrote Al Gore in his book, The Assault on Reason. But it doesn't - as Gore explains - and that is what makes the mass media one of the most important obstacles to social and economic progress in the 21st century.
Who Is Rev. Moon? 'Returning Lord,' 'Messiah,' Publisher of the Washington Times
 John Gorenfeld
The following is an adapted excerpt from John Gorenfeld's "Bad Moon Rising: How Reverend Moon Created the Washington Times, Seduced the Religious Right, and Built an American Kingdom."
A Writer's Life in Puerto Vallarta
 Harold Sokolove
Amigos de Bucerias Simply Speaking Series welcomes local author Linda Abbott Trapp, who'll be sharing A Writer's Life in Puerto Vallarta at the Bucerias Bilingual Community Center, Calle 16 de septiembre, on Wednesday, March 5th at 7 pm.
Mexico is Refuge for World's Persecuted Writers
 Chris Hawley
When the paramilitaries burst through his door, beat him and pointed a Kalashnikov rifle at his chest, poet Xhevdet Bajraj knew it was time to get as far from Kosovo as possible.
Experts in Latin America Invited to Write on Information Access
 ijnet
Journalists who are experts in Latin America are invited to participate in the third edition of Sunshine Week, an initiative of U.S. media outlets led by the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Submission deadline: February 29.
In Argentina, Transvestites Find a Voice
 Marcela Valente
With the support of one of Argentina’s leading public universities, a group of transvestites have launched a magazine aimed at reaffirming their identity and giving them a voice, as they tend to be ignored or given stereotypical coverage by the mainstream press. The publication is the first of its kind in Latin America.
Crime Scene Investigator
 Adrian Searle
From 1948 until his forced retirement in 1979, the Mexican photographer Enrique Metinides took thousands of images and followed hundreds of stories in and around Mexico City. And what images and stories they were...
Media Dyslexia and the WSF
 Perla Wilson
No one has ever said that the relationship between the social world and mass media outlets is easy, even less so in the case of initiatives to foster a new political approach such as the World Social Forum.
Loss of News Talk Show Dismays Mexicans
 Reed Johnson
Supporters of journalist Carmen Aristegui say the cancellation of her radio program poses a threat to the country's move toward greater democracy.
The Mainstream Media is no Longer a Relevant Source of Information
 Dave Gibson
At one time, the American press was well-respected throughout the world. They earned that respect with hard work, honesty, and by reporting on important stories. Unfortunately, the MSM has abandoned all of those principles which has rendered them completely irrelevant.
The Stampeding Media Herd
 Martin Schram
Two incidents of unintended consequences this week compel us to revisit just how wrong things can go in the herd journalism that has spread faster than mad cow disease along the 2008 presidential campaign trail.
In Mexico, Reporters Learn Not to Name Names
 Héctor Tobar
The writer was one of the legion of underpaid beat reporters in Mexico, the kind who churn out four or five stories a day, for low pay and little recognition. They know all about the corrupt and violent dealings going on around them, even though they can't always pass on this knowledge to their readers.
Media-Mexico: Freedom of the Press?
 Diego Cevallos
In the last seven years in Mexico, 35 journalists were killed and six went missing, 84 media workers filed complaints of insults or attacks in 2007, and in the first few days of 2008, the prestigious independent radio commentator Carmen Aristegui, who has often criticised the powers that be, was fired.
Socialists Blast Corporate Media on Presidential Debates
 Stewart A. Alexander
In recent days, ABC in a debate of the candidates excluded Dennis Kucinich from participating in the national television debate of the Democrats, while including Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.
US News Media Downplays Iraq War
 Capitol Hill Blue
As America heads into a Presidential election year where Iraq is a central issue, mainstream media outlets plan massive cutbacks in war coverage and reductions in resources and personnel dedicated to reporting on the conflict.
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