GuantanaWiki
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
Online volunteers are "using collaborative wiki software to expedite the process of perusing thousands of pages of complex documents related to detainees held by the U.S.
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Activism
Fewer Nuclear Options
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
In "the first time a president has stepped inside a nuclear plant since Jimmy Carter rushed to Three Mile Island in 1979 to calm public fears," George Bush visited Maryland's Calvert Cliffs plant to promote "a new era of nuclear power." Part of the president's plan is to subsidize new plants.
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Payola Rulez!
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
The Federal Communications Commission added a web page outlining the restrictions against pay-for-broadcast arrangements and explaining how individuals can report suspected payola.
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Stop the Fake News Dummies!
Submitted by Laura Miller on
Video news releases (like those featuring Karen Ryan) and pundit payola (like Armstrong Williams' promotion of the No Child Left Behind Act) are just two examples of how corporate and government interests have infiltrated news media, turning reporter
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Dezenhall Bemused by Environmentalists' Wins
Submitted by Bob Burton on
Joan Lowy notes that environmental groups like Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network and the Texas Campaign for the Environment are having success with campaigns that bypass government and directly lobby corporations instead.
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FCC Commissioner Adelstein Issues Fake News Challenge
"We need to fight one of [media consolidation's] most pernicious symptoms, I think, which is the increasing commercialization of media," the Federal Communications Commission's Jonathan Adelstein
No Fake News!
On April 6, 2006, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) released a multi-media report titled, "Fake TV News: Widespread and Undisclosed." It provides the most extensive account to date of how corporate-funded video news releases (VNRs) -- fake TV news -- are routinely aired by newsrooms, without disclosure, as though they were independently-gathered reports.
One Small Step Towards Full Disclosure
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
For one year, U.S. government agencies will be banned "from issuing video news releases that do not clearly identify" the government as the source of the footage. Congressional members "agreed to include the measure in an emergency spending bill," which is why the restriction expires after one year.
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Unhappy Campers
Submitted by Bob Burton on
The president of the Public Relations Institute of Australia's (PRIA) Victoria chapter, David Hawkins, bluntly summarised the results of a membership survey as, "Most people think the PRIA sucks.
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The FCC on "Fake News": Who's Trying to Persuade You?
"Listeners and viewers are entitled to know who seeks to persuade them," noted the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, in a Public Notice (PDF file, Word file) released last night.
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