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May 9, 2008
5/09/08 Bimbaum, WP, Oil Lobby Reaches Out to Citizens Peeved at the Pump
5/09/08 Sirota, ITT, Acknowledging the Race Chasm
May 6, 2008
5/06/08 Shachtman, Wired, Investigate the Pentagon Pundit Project - and the New York Times - Yourself, Online
April 30, 2008
4/30/08 The Age, Global press freedom declines in 2007: study
4/30/08 BBC, Few gains for press freedom - Asia
April 26, 2008
4/26/08 Shiels, BBC, Web 2.0 debates internet's future
April 23, 2008
4/23/08 Labaton, NYT, With Possible Newsday Deal, Murdoch Takes on F.C.C. Media Rule
April 22, 2008
4/22/08 Monbiot, Guardian, The Most Potent Weapon Wielded by the Empires of Murdoch and China
April 20, 2008
4/20/08 Barstow, NYT, Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand
4/20/08 Pierson, LAT, Protesters target CNN after Jack Cafferty's remarks on China
April 18, 2008
4/18/08 AP, NBC Universal, ad agency to create product-centered programs
April 8, 2008
4/08/08 BBC, What is the meaning of 'green'?
April 4, 2008
4/04/08 Ewert, ITT, Adbusters' Ads Busted
March 31, 2008
3/31/08 Shachtman, Wired, Military Report: Secretly 'Recruit or Hire Bloggers'
March 26, 2008
3/26/08 Isikoff & Hosenball, Newsweek, How dangerous is Al Qaeda's latest tape?
March 13, 2008
3/13/08 Rohn, Petoskey News Review, Jeff Cohen's Message Clear: Don't Trust Big Corporate Media
March 6, 2008
3/06/08 Tiplett, Variety, Media Ownership Rules Back Into Play
February 26, 2008
2/26/08 Chen, Nation, The 60 Minutes Blackout
February 25, 2008
2/25/08 Nizza, NYT, Media Blackout Update: Pakistan and Alabama?
February 14, 2008
2/14/08 Tirman, Editor & Publisher, Counting Iraqi Casualties - and a Media Controversy
February 6, 2008
2/06/08 Jensen, NYT, Public Broadcasters Prepare to Fight Federal Budget Cuts
January 29, 2008
1/29/08 Jamail, Asia Times, A bitter taste to Iraqi reality
January 25, 2008
1/25/08 AP, Kucinich Abandons White House Bid
January 24, 2008
1/24/08 Egelko, SF Chron. Who Decides Who'll Be Allowed on TV Debates?
January 19, 2008
1/19/08 Business Wire, CNN sets debate criteria 1% above Kucinich's latest poll results, campaign files complaint with Federal Communications Commission
January 12, 2008
1/12/08 Foley, Independent, Super Bowl commercials going for £1.4m for 30-second slot
January 11, 2008
1/11/08 Renner, Truthout, Andrew Roth on Front Page Depictions of War video
January 3, 2008
1/03/08 Lobe, IPS, MEDIA-US: Foreign TV News Fell to Pre-9/11 Levels in 2007
January 2, 2008
1/02/08 Gough, Reuters, Former "Dateline" Reporter Blasts NBC
January 1, 2008
1/01/08 AP, TV cuts candidates from debates, angering Paul backers
December 30, 2007
12/30/07 Ersan, Reuters, Bin Laden says U.S. seeks to exploit Iraqi oil
December 24, 2007
12/24/07 DemocracyNow, The FCC's Christmas Gift to Big Media
December 21, 2007
12/21/07 AFP, US Media Ignoring Top Humanitarian Stories: Aid Group
December 17, 2007
12/17/07 Hotakainen, McClatchy, Nation prepares for shift to digital TV
December 15, 2007
12/15/07 Ferris, Wired, Science Cafés Tap Nation's Fascination With Research and Discoveries
December 8, 2007
12/08/07 Gibson et al, Guardian, Murdoch crowns second son as successor to media empire
November 28, 2007
11/28/07 Deen, IPS, Does the Media Incite Religious Tensions?
November 27, 2007
11/27/07 Vargus, WP, Storming the News Gatekeepers
November 14, 2007
11/14/07 Ahrens, WP, FCC Chief Offers New Plan on Cross-Ownership
November 13, 2007
11/13/07 Reuters, Diplomats Near Deal on Earmarking World Radiowaves
November 7, 2007
11/07/07 Mufson, WP, Coal-Funded Ad Is Called Misleading
October 29, 2007
10/29/07 Seeyle, NYT, Study: Media Focused On Tactics Not Issues
October 18, 2007
10/18/07 Nichols, Nation, An Assault on Media Diversity and Democracy
10/18/07 Labaton, NYT, Plan Would Ease Limits on Media Owners
October 3, 2007
10/03/07 NYT, The Verizon Warning
September 21, 2007
9/21/07 Kurtz, WP, Discussing His Lawsuit Against CBS, Dan Rather Is Sticking to His Story
September 7, 2007
9/07/07 BBC, US backing for two-tier internet
August 23, 2007
8/23/07 Chen, ITT, The Promise of Low Power FM
August 19, 2007
8/19/07 Schwartz & Bajaj, NYT, In Mortgage Meltdown, Missed Signs
August 8, 2007
8/08/07 Pilger, DemocracyNow, The Unseen Lies: Journalism As Propaganda
August 4, 2007
8/03/07 Singel, Wired, Senate Committee Votes to Expand TV Ratings Technology To Internet
August 2, 2007
8/02/07 Ahrens, WP, For Dow Jones, A Ticket to Take On the World
8/02/07 Scherer, CSM, How powerful is Rupert Murdoch now?
August 1, 2007
8/01/07 Pérez-Peña & Sorkin, NYT, Dow Jones Deal Gives Murdoch a Coveted Prize
8/01/07 BBC, Murdoch wins fight for Dow Jones
July 3, 2007
7/4/07 BBC, Mexican world's richest person
July 2, 2007
7/2/07 Dewson, Independent, City confirms $8bn Carlyle Virgin Media bid
June 18, 2007
6/18/07 BBC, BBC 'must become more impartial' ... Safeguarding Impartiality (pdf report)
June 12, 2007
6/12/07 Skeen, Wired, Eye-Tracking Device Lets Billboards Know When You Look at Them
June 5, 2007
6/05/07 Labaton, NYT, Court Rebuffs F.C.C. on Fines for Indecency
May 29, 2007
5/29/07 BBC, Outcry over TV kidney competition
May 9, 2007
5/09/07 Lobe, IPS, Pentagon Moved to Fix Iraqi Media Before Invasion
April 26, 2007
4/25/07 Nichols, Nation, Bill Moyers and the Fight for American Journalism
April 24, 2007
4/24/07 Buskirk, WIred, Save Internet Radio From Perishing on May 15th
4/24/07 Farhi & Ahrens, WP, FCC Seeks To Rein In Violent TV Shows
April 22, 2007
4/22/07 WP, Let the White House Correspondents' Festivities Begin. Wait, They've Already Started.
4/22/07 Independent, Deadly games - They're bloody. But can they make you a killer?
4/22/07 Riddell, Guardian, The true nature of modern loss
April 21, 2007
4/21/07 Fisk, Independent, Caught in the deadly web of the internet
April 15, 2007
4/15/07 Running Waters, Malibu Arts Rev, Silenced: Progressive Sites Censored
April 13, 2007
4/13/07 Pfauth, IPS, When Hate Speech Turns Deadly, Who Can Stop It?
April 7, 2007
4/07/07 Fisk, Independent, The true story of free speech in America
March 23, 2007
3/23/07 Chester, Nation, The War Against Google
March 9, 2007
3/09/07 Connor, Independent, Subliminal messages do reach your brain - but you won't know it
February 23, 2007
2/23/07 Sousa, ITT, In Defense of a Free Press
February 7, 2007
2/07/07 Farhi, WP, Mars Scraps Snickers Ad After Complaints
February 5, 2007
2/05/07 Vedantam, WP, A Game of Magical Thinking Leaves Reality on the Sidelines
2/05/07 Elliott, NYT, Super Bowl Ads of Cartoonish Violence, Perhaps Reflecting Toll of War
January 26, 2007
1/26/07 Babbington, WP, FCC to Feel Unfamiliar Heat From Democrats
January 22, 2007
1/22/07 Freudenheim, NYT, Showdown Looms in Congress Over Drug Advertising on TV
January 19, 2007
1/19/07 Rizvi, OneWorld, Study: U.S. Media Overlooked Major Humanitarian Stories in 2006
January 17, 2007
1/17/07 Moyers, Media Reform Conference, Life on the Plantation
January 15, 2007
1/15/07 Jan-Feb, Pappu, MoJo, Angry White Man
1/15/07 Story, NYT, Anywhere the Eye Can See, It's Likely to See an Ad
January 14, 2007
1/14/07 EuroNews, Anti-US allies come together over oil