Thinking About Media, Pt. 2

This archive gathers reports focused on the ownership, practices, and regulations of the media. Also it examines the current tendencies, perceived biases, and censoring of the media. The focus is on the structure and control of the media—whereas the “culture” archives contain reports about the content and products of the media. In keeping with this focus there is also an emphasis on what is often called "alternative" media sources and their role in society.

“33 internal FOX editorial memos reviewed by MMFA reveal FOX News Channel's inner workings.” Media Matters for America (July 14, 2004)

ABYZ News Links (Newspaper and News Media Guide—Global in Scope)

Alterman, Eric. “PBS Adds Insult to Injury.” The Nation (August 12, 2004)

Alternative News Links

Association of Alternative Weeklies

Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” (1935) (why should we continue to pay attention to this essay?)

Center for the Study of Political Graphics (Archive of over 50,000 Post WWII Political Posters)

Coates, Ta-Nehisi. “Egotistical Bastards: Dead Mag Helps VH-1 Talk About Race.” The Village Voice (August 17, 2004)

Crouch, Stanley. “For Young Black Men, Rap’s Lure is False.” New York Daily News (June 7, 2004)

DiNovella, Elizabeth. “Helen Thomas: [The First Lady of the Press].” Progressive (August 2004)

Edwards, Bob. “Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism.” Book TV (July 10, 2004)

El-Moslimany, Samia. “Azizah Rising.” Saudi Aramco World (March/April 2004)

Engelhardt, Tom. “What Do We Call the Enemy?” TomDispatch (A summary/compilation of current administration tactics in describing Iraqi resistance fighter: August 18, 2004)

Fost, Dan. “Harper’s Editor Laments Rise of Corporate News Purveyors.” SF Gate (April 24, 2002)

Frel, Jan. “Red and Blue Aren’t Always True.” Alternet (August 27, 2004)

Friedman, Ted. “From Heroic Objectivity to the News Stream: The Newseum's Strategies for Relegitimizing Journalism in the Information Age.” (Originally published in Critical Studies in Mass Communication 15:3 September, 1998: reposted at Newseum website)

Gillin, Beth. “TV Journalists Milk Convention for Non-News.” Philadelphia Inquirer (July 29, 2004)

Graeber, David. “Lying in Wait: Police and Media Hysteria on the Eve of Major Protests.” The Nation (April 1, 2004)

Green, Adam. “Gangsta Content.” The New Yorker (July 5, 2004)

Halter, Ed. “Media Cool: Indie Filmmakers Look for Drama and Spectacle at the Republican National Convention.” The Village Voice (August 17, 2004)

Heuvel, Katrina Vanden. “Clear Channel vs. The First Amendment.” The Nation (March 4, 2004)

Hewitt, Don. “Tell Me a Story: 50 Years and 60 Minutes in Television.” Book TV (2001)

Holston, Neal. “Putting a Spin On the News.” Newsday (August 15, 2004)

Janz, Bruce. “Places That Disaster Left Behind.” (August 20, 2004)

Johnson, Julie. “Activists and Entrepreneurs: The California Advocate.” NCM (August 6, 2004)

Justice, Glen. “Businesses Plan Attack on Edwards.” New York Times (August 24, 2004)

Kennedy, Dan. “Secret agents: From Washington to Providence, reporters face jail for not giving up their sources. But what, exactly, does the government hope to accomplish?” The Boston Phoenix (August 20-26, 2004)

“Kids and Commercialism.” Center For a New American Dream (2004)

King, Larry. “Interview With Jon Stewart.” CNN (Transcript: June 25, 2004)

Kurtz, Howard. “The Post on WMDs—An Inside Story: Prewar Articles Questioning Threat Often Didn’t Make Front Page.” Washington Post (August 12, 2004)

Lynn, Kenneth S. “The Hidden Agony of Woodrow Wilson.” Wilson Quarterly (Winter 2004)

Margulies, Anne H. “The OpenCourseWare Initiative: A New Model for Sharing.” MIT World (March 23, 2004)

Matloff, Judith. “Mothers at War: Babies or Battle Zones? More Journalists These Days are Choosing Both, and Facing the Consequences.” Columbia Journalism Review (July/August 2004)

McCollam, Douglas. “The List: How Chalabi Played the Press.” Columbia Journalism Review (July/August 2004)

McKelvey, Tara. “Fat Man Speaks Out: A crack political reporter explains what a terrorist attack would mean for the election -- and more. An interview with Jack Germond.” The American Prospect (August 18, 2004)

Mears, Walter. “Deadlines Past: Forty Years of Presidential Campaigning—A Reporter’s Story.” Booknotes (January 11, 2004)

Moyers, Bill. “Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times.” BookTV (July 18, 2004)

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War On Journalism (Robert Greenwald’s 2004 documentary/website)

Owen, David. “Mosaic TV: A Window On the Middle East.” NCM (August 12, 2004)

Paglia, Camille. “The Magic of Images: Word and Picture in a Media Age.” Arion 11.3 (Winter 2004)

“Photography.” Voice of the Shuttle (Ongoing archival project)

Patel, Joseph. “The Mouse That Roared: Danger Mouse.” Res (July/August 2004)

Rajiva, Lila. “Iraqi Women and Torture, Part One: Rapes and Rumors of Rape.” Dissident Voice (July 27, 2004)

---. “Iraqi Women and Torture, Part II: Theater That Educates, News That Propagandizes.” Dissident Voice (July 30, 2004)

---. “Iraqi Women and Torture, Part III: Violence and Virtual Violence.” Dissident Voice (August 4, 2004)

---. “Iraqi Women and Torture, Part IV
Gendered Propaganda, the Propaganda of Gender.” Dissident Voice (August 9, 2004)

Reilly, Katherine C. “Google’s ‘Haphazard’ Ad Policy.” The Nation (August 12, 2004)

Roy, Sandip. “Al Jazeera Closure a Warning To Other Arab Media.” Pacific News Service (August 16, 2004)

Salgado, Sebastiăo. “Changing the World With Children.” UNICEF

---. “Epic Sebastião Salgado show at the Berkeley Art Museum.” University of California Berkeley: Campus News (Includes Lecture, Presentation and Panel Discussion: February 8, 2002)

---. “The Majority World: Three Photo Essays, 1977-92” Terra

---. “Migrations: Humanity in Transition.” PDN and Kodak Professional (1999)

---. “Migrations: Humanity in Transition, 1993-1999” Terra

Sherburne, Philip. “Log In, Blog On, Rock Out.” Res (July/August 2004)

Society of Environmental Journalists

Sugar, Janos. “Interview with Peter Lamborn Wilson” The Hermetic Library (conducted at Metaforum II, Budapest, October 95')

Thill, Scott. “Emergency Revolutionary.” Alternet (August 27, 2004)

Tomasky, Michael. “Cowards All Around: The media should take a step back and remind us what Bush and Cheney were up to in 1969.” The American Prospect (August 23, 2004)

“Tour the World Economy Through 10 Short Films.” Center For a New American Dream (Ongoing Project: 2004)

“Untold Stories: Lexington and the Civil Rights Movement.” Lexington Herald-Leader (2004 series seeking to recognize and address the newspaper's conscious censorship of civil rights stories during the 1960s, includes present-day reflections from the community)

Waldman, Paul. “Mad as Hell: How I Got a Disturbing View of Brent Bozell’s Undying Rage.” The Gadflyer (August 19, 2004)

Walker, Casey. “Waiting for the Barbarians: Lewis Lapham on civic discourse, intellectual life and cultural asphyxiation in a TV nation.” Media Channel (February 16, 2000)

“Media Tracker: Who Controls the Media Where You Live?” The Center For Public Integrity (Ongoing: 2004)

Wilson, Peter Lamborn. “The Information War.” Zero News Datapool (speech given at the opening of Public Netbase t0 on the 17th of March 1995)

Zernike, Kate and Jim Rutenberg. “Friendly-Fire: The Birth of an Anti-Kerry Ad.” The New York Times (August 20, 2004)

Thinking About Media, Pt. 1