Suing Them Softly
Submitted by Bob Burton on
Hugh Morgan, the President of the Business Council of Australia (BCA), lashed out at a proposal by state attorney generals to prevent corporations from suing for defamation.
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Opposition to Fake News Grows
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
Jay Rosen posts "a unanimous resolution passed by the Boston University Journalism Faculty and circulated to other J-Schools by Bob Zelnick, the former ABC News correspondent" and self-described conservative.
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CMD & Free Press File 'Fake News' Complaint with FCC on Behalf of 40,000 Petition Signers
The Center for Media and Democracy and Free Press have filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission urging an investigation of the extensive airing of "fake news" by TV broadcasters who take government and corporate Video News Release (VNR) stories and run them unlabeled as real journalism. In just one week nearly 40,000 citizens have signed our petition calling on the FCC, Congress and local broadcasters to stop fake news.
Terrorist or Activist?
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
"Under the draconian conditions of the USA Patriot Act," reports the Guardian, "the FBI can use covert surveillance of 'terrorists' without the necessity of getting a judicial warrant." Last year, the FBI identified "animal rights extremists and eco-terrorism" as "a domestic terrorism investigative priority," concerning even mainstream environmental groups.
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The Sleuths of Spin
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Bill Berkowitz writes that the Center for Media and Democracy's "sleuths of spin John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton have exposed how corporate shills and government spokespersons manipulate the media and undermine democracy for more than a decade," and are now "setting about an ambitious - yet necessary - undertaking: reinventing journalism." Berkowitz interviews Center founder Stauber about recent media scandals involving
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SOA Watch Watchers
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
At the trespassing trial of activists protesting the School of the Americas combat training base, "new information surfaced about a comprehensive plan devised by the U.S. Army to deflect criticism of the school, now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation." Defendant Aaron Shuman introduced as evidence WHINSEC's "Strategic Communications Campaign Plan," which he obtained from an Army public affairs officer.
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Email Bombs and Blowbacks
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
Christian Science Monitor reporter Tom Regan writes, "The Internet is increasingly being used by special interest groups to try and influence media to change the way they cover a subject, or in some cases not to cover it at all." Regan focuses on the Monitor's on-line polls, which, although not scientific, "encourage deeper involvement in a story and issue." A poll accompanying a story on the U.S.
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Using the Big Gunns
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
"While the forestry industry in [the Australian state of] Tasmania is notoriously defensive, Gunns appears to be setting new standards," reports the Independent.
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Demanding a Counter-"Point"
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
A new campaign charges Sinclair Broadcast Group, the "largest single owner/operator of television stations in the United States," with "misusing public airwaves with partisan news programming." The campaign, by Media Matters for America, MoveOn,
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FDA Trying to Tarnish a Whistleblower?
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
After challenging Food and Drug Administration policies that he claims leave the public "virtually defenseless" against questionable drugs, FDA drug safety official Dr.
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