Take On The Media

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by Sherry Ricchiardi (AJR, 2007/12-2008/1) As U.S. news organizations have backed away from foreign news coverage, the Associated Press’ int...

by Roy Greenslade (The Guardian, 2007-11-29) At least 171 journalists and other news media staff have died as a result of their work around ...

by Lily Hindy (AP, 2007-11-24) The U.S. military's plan to seek a criminal case against an Associated Press photographer in Iraq without...

Editor & Publisher, 2007-11-21 A series of accusations raised by the U.S. military against an Associated Press photographer detained for...

by Michael Calderone ( Politico , 2007-11-20) When the New York Times published a front page story Sunday about the United States’ and Pakis...

Press Group Raises Concerns by Joe Strupp ( Editor & Publisher , 2007-11-21) Associated Press Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll believes...

A long profile by Daniel Zwerdling of Colby Vokey , the Marine Corps' top defense attorney, "pulled out of his position because he...

Have you noticed how often we must rely on the BBC, The Guardian, The Economist, The Independent UK, foreign language papers, and, domestica...

by Al Kamen (The Washington Post, 2007-10-26) FEMA has truly learned the lessons of Katrina. Even its handling of the media has improved dr...

Officials balked on '05 Blackwater inquiry State Department e-mails obtained by ABC News discuss how to deflect a Times reporter's q...

Ninety years after Walter Lippmann first railed against the complicity of the media in wartime propaganda, we're back at ground zero. by...

by Anne Trubek (Wired, 2007-10-24) A small press, growing? How could it be? Against market trends, Dzanc Books is a small publisher poised...

by Robert B. Reich (Foreign Policy, September/October 2007) Free markets were supposed to lead to free societies. Instead, today’s superchar...

by Joshua Partlow and Colum Lynch (Washington Post, 2007-10-12) BAGHDAD, Oct. 11 -- A U.N. report issued Thursday outlined an "ever-dee...

Democrats Seem Ready to Extend Wiretap Powers by Eric Lichtblau and Carl Hulse (New York Times, 2007-10-09) WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 — Two months ...

BAGHDAD (AP) - The U.S. military returned a videotape and digital camera memory card Monday that American soldiers had seized last week from...

by Howard Kurtz (The Washington Post, 2007-10-08) Charlie Gibson is a product of the Vietnam War era. When he was a television reporter in ...

Body count isn't best way to rate war result The Department of Defense has for the first time revealed statistics on the numbers of Iraq...

by Aref Mohammed (Reuters UK, 2007-10-01) Basra, Iraq - Residents of Iraq's southern city of Basra have begun strolling riverfront stree...