- Agreement on terms
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
I have come to accept that western journalists cannot accurately, let alone objectively, represent the Middle East and the Arab world. The problem is not that journalists do not always adhere to their own professional codes and methods, though that does happen. It is that even if correspondents strictly obey all the rules, they still present a fundamentally biased and skewed picture of the Middle East.
- American Media Ignore Major Murdoch News Corp Scandal
Rupert's Misdeeds
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
America’s corporate news media love highlighting David-besting-Goliath stories…except apparently, when the fallen Goliath is major media mogul Rupert Murdoch – the billionaire owner of America’s caustic FOX News and other entities.
- America's last taboo
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2002
The unspoken premise of the mainstream press is that no Palestinian or Arab position on Israeli police terror, settler-colonialism, or military occupation is worth hearing from.
- Between the Lines
How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
An exploration of medthods of "dec-doing" our daily newspapers and radio/TV news. Examines our predominant sources of information (mass media) and indicates the existence of many alternative sources of informaiton.
- Bias in the Media: the Result of Corporate Ownership
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
There may still be, perhaps in the quiet countryside somewhere, people who believe that news programs present news. It is unlikely that this is true; rather, those who rely on the corporate-owned press for information probably enjoy finding sources that support what they want to hear. And, if they are unsure of just what it is that they want to hear, their 'trusted' source will tell them.
- Blindspots in The News
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
The filters that determine what gets into the "news" and what doesn't.
- Business journalists go on the attack; demonize Atlantic seasonal workers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
National business journalists and columnists have bought into Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s demeaning view that folks in the Atlantic region are backward and have a defeatist attitude. Framed in disrespectful language, they’re promoting untested economic ideas that, if adopted, would seriously damage the economy – and the people – of the region.
- Canadian group not dealing with major free expression issue
Celebrating World Press Freedom Day
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
We need to address how corporate-owned mainstream news organizations restrict the freedom of journalists and prevent the public from having access to a wide variety of important news and opinion articles. This lack of balanced information affects everything from people having the information they need to decide how to vote to all of us better understanding how power is exercised in our communities. The censorship consists of banning some topics and discussions and filtering out stories and ideas that do not fit the current mainstream media agenda.
- The Censorious Vortex of the "Flash News" Barons
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
For decades, the factors that decided what noteworthy stories would not find their way into print or on the air came down to the media's ignorance, laziness or from advertising restraints. For too long, the explosive material for good journalism in these and other areas had remained hidden in plain sight.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website
The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- Confessions of a Media Critic
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1984
Barrie Zwicker says that with the planet in crisis it isn't time for 'business as usual', least of all in journalism.
- Democracy's Oxygen
How Corporations Control the News
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.
- The Empire's Shill
The Real Mission of the New York Times
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
- Facebook Wants You to Know if You’re Getting Your News From the Wrong Government
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Media outlets owned by a company with ties to the Russian government are forced to disclose their affiliation on Facebook. Media outlets owned or funded by the US government are not held to the same standard.
- Grassroots media relations
A short introduction to media relations strategies for activist groups
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
A media relations guide for organizers and activists.
- A Guide to the Photographic Identification of Individual Whales Based on Natural & Acquired Markings
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- Hack
Home Truths about Foreign News
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
This book is about HACKS - journalists, the men and women who fly into famines and wars and in a few days churn out stories telling the world what has been going on. It shows how HACKS work and the pressures that they face through some of the big news stories and hidden wars of the past decade. It's also about "newspeak" and double talk to square what is actually happening to the complacencies of news organisations at home. Finally, it's about how one HACK thinks; how he has picked his way through the political minefield of journalism and survived with only the loss of a few stories chopped and a few others consigned to the waste bin.
- Hidden Agendas: How Journalists Influence the News
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
A right-wing critique of the theory that media owners determine the nature of news coverage. Instead, the authors contend that journalists have the most influence over news coverage, and that journalists tend to be on the left.
- A History of News
From the Drum to the Satellite
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
- How Truth Slips Down The Memory Hole
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
John Pilger, applies to current events Orwell's description in '1984' of how the Ministry of Truth consigned embarrassing truth to a memory hole. He highlights the killing of a Palestinian cameraman by the Israelis as an example of how "we" are trained to look on the rest of the world as quite unlike ourselves: useful or expendable.
- Introduction to the Media Guide
Resource Type: Article
An introduction to "Media for Social Change."
- Inventing Reality
The Politics of News Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
- Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2014
A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the situation in Isreal/Palestine based on peace, justice, and human rights.
- It Ain't Necessarily So
How the Media Remake Our Picture of Reality
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
Looks at the confusion and inaccuracies surrounding media reporting of scientific studies, surveys and statistics.
- Media Are Blamed as US Bombing of Afghan Hospital Is Covered Up
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
After the US airstrikes that hit an MSF (Medecins Sans Frontières) hospital, many news outlets have depicted the event in a way that evades any American responsibility.
- Media Think
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diverse perspectives on events and issues, the media portray an increasingly dogmatic and orthodox corporate picture of the world around us. The consistency with which they do this has its consequent, intended effect on public opinion and policy formation.
- Medialens
Resource Type: Website
Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media.
MediaLens is a response based on our conviction that mainstream newspapers and broadcasters provide a profoundly distorted picture of our world. We are convinced that the increasingly centralised, corporate nature of the media means that it acts as a de facto propaganda system for corporate and other establishment interests. The costs incurred as a result of this propaganda, in terms of human suffering and environmental degradation, are incalculable.
In seeking to understand the basis and operation of this systematic distortion, we flatly reject all conspiracy theories and point instead to the inevitably corrupting effects of free market forces operating on and through media corporations seeking profit in a society dominated by corporate power.
- Necessary Illusions
Thought Control in Democratic Societies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
An inquiry into the nature of the media and the role of intellectuals in "a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force, and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control."
- News and the Culture of Lying
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
The news media lie, says Weaver, not by slipshod reporting or unethical practices, but in the very "plot structure" of the news, in the masks of impersonality assumed by reporters and editors, and in catering to advertising interests and the appetite for excitement.
- News Media Stifle Ideas and Debate
Review of Democracy's Oxygen: How Corporations Control the News
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1997
Far from providing democracy's oxygen, as they claim, the news media today legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informed, they manufacture public consent for policies which favour their owners: the corporate elite.
- News media stifle ideas and debate (review)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1997
- No longer a real newspaper, new Globe betrays Canadians
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The new tarted-up, glossy, colour Globe and Mail is many things, but it is not a real “news paper.”
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Peter Steven aims to make readers realize the power and influence of dominant media but, at the same time, also understand that they are not "omnipotent" and that there are alternative forms available.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 30, 2014
Refugees
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2014
Topic of the week is Refugees. Featured articles look at migration, counter-surveillance resources, farmers in Ghana fighting to retain the freedom to save their own seeds, and rebuilding communities faced with mining companies in Ecuador. The website of the week is Mediamatters. From the archives we've got Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 2, 2016
Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Brexit, the British vote to leave the European Union, has thrown the political elites into turmoil and confusion. The referendum was supposed to be a safe political manoeuvre, a way to produce an appearance of democratic legitimacy for the profoundly undemocratic structures of the EU. The gambit turned out to be a spectacular miscalculation, as millions of people turned out to express their opposition to a state of affairs that is leaving the majority worse off while enriching a small minority. This issue of Other Voices looks at the Brexit referendum, elite loathing for democracy, and the related attempt to get rid of Labour's leftwing leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 20, 2016
Fake News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
"Fake news" is the latest mania to convulse the mainstream media. All at once, we're being subjected to an outbreak of hand-wringing articles and commentary about obscure websites which are supposedly poisoning public opinion and undermining democracy by spreading "fake news." Since we don't like to be left out when a new fad comes on the scene, Other Voices is jumping on the bandwagon too, with this, our last issue of 2016, devoted to "fake news." Our focus, however, is not so much on the crackpots and trolls making mischief on the fringes, but on the dominant actors in the fake news business: governments and the corporate and state media.
- Palestine Media Watch
Resource Type: Website
PMWATCH was established to promote fair and accurate coverage of the Israeli occupation of Palestine in the US mainstream media. In broad terms, our mission is two-fold: (1) identify, report on, and protest clear journalistic failures by the US media in covering the conflict, and (2) help media outlets with access to pro-Palestinian points of view and voices for interviews, op-eds, or background discussions, whether here in the United States, in Israel, or in the Occupied Territories. Includes tools and suggestions for action on media bias.
- The Real Terror Network
Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
Herman sets out to show that the U.S. ignores or sponsors terror by authoritarian states that are allied with U.S. interests.
- Seriously Free Speech Committee
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Silent Revolution
Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- Simon Fraser University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Sources Select Resources
Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
- Sources welcomes the Seriously Free Speech Committee
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Sources welcomes a new member: the Seriously Free Speech Committee. The SFSC is committed to free expression of views on Israel/Palestine.
- Spinwars
Politics and New Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
- Telling It
Women and Language Across Cutures
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- Tracking the News that Wasn't
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1996
A review of two books about media bias and censorship.
- Tracking the News that Wasn't (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1996
- Whatever Happened to Al Jazeera?
All the News That's Fit to Slant
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
In Al Jazeera’s early days in the mid and late 1990s, the channel took on taboo subjects and proudly challenged the status quo. In recent months, however, Al Jazeera has begun to change course. It has deviated from its journalistic responsibilities in Libya, and is now completely losing the plot with Syria. The channel is in urgent need to revisit its own code of ethics.
- When journalists forget that murder is murder
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2001
When Israelis are involved, our moral compass, our ability to report the truth, dries up.
- Why Canada must limit the influence of corporate media
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Traditional news departments follow unwritten but well-understood guidelines concerning what they should not cover. Most people in the newsrooms have been so thoroughly indoctrinated in corporate ideology that they seldom suggest a story that falls outside of the guidelines.
- Barrie Zwicker
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
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