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Group points out O'Reilly racist comments
Associated Press - Mon Sep 24, 2007
NEW YORK - After eating dinner at a famed Harlem restaurant recently, Fox News Channels Bill OReilly told a radio audience he "couldnt get over the fact" that there was no difference between the black-run Sylvias and other restaurants. More»

Dan Rather files lawsuit against CBS
Associated Press - Tue Sep 18, 2007
NEW YORK - Dan Rather filed a $70 million lawsuit Wednesday against CBS, alleging that the network made him a "scapegoat" for a discredited story about President Bushs National Guard service. More»

Ex-ABC consultant said to fake interview
Associated Press - Thu Sep 13, 2007
A former ABC News consultant fired last year because he couldnt authenticate academic credentials is at the center of a new dispute over apparently faked interviews with Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Gates and others. More»

Industry pressure waters down breast-feed ads
Washington Post - Thu Aug 30, 2007
In an attempt to raise the nations historically low rate of breast-feeding, federal health officials commissioned an attention-grabbing advertising campaign a few years ago to convince mothers that their babies faced real health risks if they did not breast-feed. More»

Author Stephen King 'mistaken for vandal'
BBC - Thu Aug 16, 2007
Author Stephen King was mistaken for a vandal when he started signing books during an unannounced visit to a shop in Australia, according to local media. More»

Satirical Weekly World News folding
UPI - Tue Aug 7, 2007
BOCA RATON, Florida - The outrageous, Florida-based supermarket tabloid, The Weekly World News, is going out of business. More»

Dow Jones agrees to Murdoch purchase
Associated Press - Tue Jul 31, 2007
NEW YORK - Rupert Murdoch has sealed a deal to buy Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Company for $5 billion, ending a century of family ownership and adding a crown jewel to his global media empire, News Corp. More»

Whoopi officially joins ABC's `The View'
Associated Press - Tue Jul 31, 2007
NEW YORK - Whoopi Goldberg, officially named Wednesday as the new moderator of "The View" as the show puts Rosie ODonnell in its rearview mirror, said her new job is a "big ol thrill for me. More»

UN Condemns Attacks on Journalists
BBC News - Fri Dec 22, 2006
The United Nations Security Council has unanimously passed a resolution condemning attacks on journalists working in war zones. More»

Exxon Spends Millions to Cast Doubt on Global Warming
The Independent, UK - Wed Dec 6, 2006
The worlds largest energy company is still spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund European organisations that seek to cast doubt on the scientific consensus on global warming and undermine support for legislation to curb emission of greenhouse gases. More»

Right Winger Laura Ingraham Tells Listeners To Jam Voter Protection Hotline
Think Progress - Mon Nov 6, 2006
As FireDogLake has been reporting, right-wing radio host Laura Ingraham today urged her listeners to obstruct efforts to protect voting rights by jamming a free voter protection hotline. More»

Bloggers on Campaign Payrolls Proliferate
MSNBC - Mon Oct 30, 2006
Bloggers paid by campaigns were a rarity two years ago -- so rare that their work and their ethics, whether for Republicans or Democrats, became fodder for controversy. More»

Pentagon Increases 'Media War' Unit
BBC - Sun Oct 29, 2006
The US defence department has set up a new unit to better promote its message across 24-hour rolling news outlets, and particularly on the internet. More»

FOX Uses Subliminal Ploy On Foley Head Shot
News Hounds - Wed Oct 4, 2006
While a former congressional page, Tyson Vivyan, was talking about the e-mails he received from Mark Foley on The OReilly Factor tonight,10/3, a photo was flashed on the screen labeled Mark Foley D. More»

Half of Americans Still Believe In WMDs - They Saw Them on TV
PR Watch - Mon Aug 7, 2006
A recent Harris Poll reports found that while "the US and other countries have not found any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, surprisingly more US adults (50%) think that Iraq had such weapons when the US invaded Iraq. More»

Report Faults Video Reports Shown as News
New York Times - Wed Apr 5, 2006
Many television news stations, including some from the nations largest markets, are continuing to broadcast reports as news without disclosing that the segments were produced by corporations pitching new products, according to a report to be released today by a group that monitors the news media. More»

The US propaganda machine: Oh, what a lovely war
The Independent UK - Thu Mar 30, 2006
The Lincoln Group was tasked with presenting the US version of events in Iraq to counter adverse media coverage. More»

Guantanamo actors held at airport
BBC - Mon Feb 20, 2006
The actors who star in movie The Road to Guantanamo were questioned by police at Luton airport under anti-terrorism legislation, it has emerged. More»

'Feminine Mystique' author Betty Friedan dies
Associated Press - Fri Feb 3, 2006
WASHINGTON - Betty Friedan, whose manifesto "The Feminine Mystique" became a best seller in the 1960s and laid the groundwork for the modern feminist movement, died Saturday, her birthday. More»

Media death toll 'worst' in 2005
BBC - Wed Jan 4, 2006
Last year was the worst on record for the number of journalists and support staff killed in the line of duty, media watchdogs in Europe and the US say. More»

The Real Price of Propaganda
Jonathan Alter - Newsweek - Thu Dec 8, 2005
If you wander into a venerable Washington mens club and glimpse the distinguished older man in the corner, trying to avoid spilling soup on his Brooks Brothers suit, chances are reasonably good that he was in the CIA back in the 1940s and 50s. More»

Robert Scheer: On Leaving the LA Times
Huffington Post - Fri Nov 11, 2005
On Friday I was fired as a columnist by the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, where I have worked for thirty years. More»

Edward R. Murrow at the movies -- just when we need him most, some say
San Francisco Chronicle - Fri Oct 7, 2005
In 1958, CBS newsman Edward R Murrow admonished broadcasters to pursue serious new stories and use the airwaves to educate and inform, in spite of corporate and advertising pressures to entertain. More»

O'Reilly Calls the ACLU a Terrorist Organization
Media Matters - Thu Apr 14, 2005
Fox News host Bill OReilly labeled the American Civil Liberties Union a "terrorist group" for filing a lawsuit against Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and for opposing Bush administration anti-terrorism measures that the group believes are unconstitutional. More»

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