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This WATCHDOG INFORMATION PORTAL is designed to provide links to information the Mainstream Media is currently BLACKING OUT, DISTORTING, or IGNORING. It is for us "Common Citizens" of the United States who simply want to become a "Well-Informed Electorate."

WIP 01. Our Enemy -- The Mainsteam Media

 

In the initial Mainstream Media portal, Section A contains links to some excellent articles or editorials describing the growing corruption in the Mainstream Media.

Section B is on Elitist Journalism in Washington (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago . . . .)

Section C has an article on the Right Wing bias in the "Liberal" Media. In addition there are place-holders for fair and objective articles on the Murdoch press empire, the Washington Times, and the Scaife-funded media. What I am looking for in the case of Rupert is information on the Murdoch media empire in the United States, Great Britain and Australia, particularly as it applies to a right-wing bias in news reporting. On the Washington Times, I am interested in the funding of the Times (where is the money coming from?) and the possible connection of the Times with the Korean CIA. On the Scaife-funded media, I would be interested in an article or article which details the Scaife funding of the American Spectator, the Western Journalism Center (name?), and the nut-case that has been pushing the Vince Foster "murder" for the past six years.

Magazine or Journal articles are preferred Because they are relatively long-lived and can be linked directly (no copyright problems). Copies of newspaper articles can be E-mailed to me at the address below, but I can only use them as reference materials. In any case, if you know of any such articles, please provide me a copy or the URL at:

franklin@netmagic.net

Links

A. General Criticism

1. Carla Binion in the American Political Journal

http://www.american-politics.com/020599guests.html

2. Marie Cocco in Newsday

http://www.netmagic.net/~franklin/WIP01a.html

3. Civic Journalism

http://www.pewcenter.org/speeches.html

4. Missing Stories

http://www.rain.org/~openmind/missing2.htm

5. George Soros on the Marketplace of Ideas

http://www.theAtlantic.com/atlantic/issues/97feb/capital/capital.htm

6. A Call for Media Reform by Ben Bagdikian

http://www.rain.org/~openmind/reform.htm

7. The Heart of the Matter of the Media

http://www.rain.org/~openmind/heart.htm

(Contains 18 links to other articles by a variety of writers)

B. Elitist Journalism: The Washington Press Corps

1. Salon Magazine

(a) On Howard Kurtz's "Spin Cycle"

http://www.salonmagazine.com/media/1998/03/cov_27media.html

(b) Molly Dickenson - The Media Elite and the Clinton "Scandals" --

"A Massive Journalistic Breakdown"

http://www.salonmagazine.com/news/1998/03/cov_27news.html

C. The Radical Right Wing Media in America (in preparation)

1. A Right-Wing Bias in the "Liberal" Media?

http://www.moravian.edu/misc/org/forum/ForumArticles/FebMediaBias.html

(Al Ferkel in the February 1995 issue of the Forum Newspaper)

2. Rupert Murdoch

(Placeholder for fair and objective articles)

3. The Reverend Moon and the Washington Times

(Placeholder for fair and objective articles)

4. The Scaife-funded Media

(Placeholder for fair and objective articles)

 

 

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