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Media Monitor
 U.S. and Terrorist Groups Both Kill Civilians, Call it Necessary for End Result
By: Jay Shaft, Coalition For Free Thought In Media 8/19/03
The U.S. and many terrorist organizations engage in killing civilians to achieve their goals. When the U.S. kills civilians as part of a war they excuse it with the term "Collateral Damage" or "Incidental Casualties"....
Monday, October 13 @ 04:11:26 UTC
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Put the Murdochs and the Moores under the media microscope
Joe Conason, The Guardian, September 18, 2003
There is much that sounds awfully familiar about Beebwatch -- the series launched last week by the Daily Telegraph editor Charles Moore to root out "soft left" bias in the BBC. [This useful article appeared under a misleading headline in The Guardian. The new headline above, however, is taken from with...
Thursday, September 18 @ 17:47:58 UTC
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Iraqi tapes 'will back' theory US helicopter killed Lloyd
Walé Azeez, Press gazette, September 12, 2003
Executives at Abu Dhabi TV claim to be in possession of video tapes which back the emerging theory that ITV News reporter Terry Lloyd was killed by a US helicopter gunship and not in crossfire between two vehicles.
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Wednesday, September 17 @ 08:23:34 UTC
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Media activists wage war on cultural hegemony
Sharif Hamadeh, The Daily Star (Lebanon), September 9, 2003
The dictatorship of Western news coverage is being challenged by the Arab media, a meeting on media workers in London heard last week.
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Wednesday, September 17 @ 08:22:36 UTC
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Operation Perfect Storm: The US Press and the Iraq War
W. Lance Bennett, Political Communication Report, Fall, 2003
If the first Iraq war was named Desert Storm, the second might be called Perfect Storm. The run-up to the 2003 war witnessed an extraordinary convergence of factors that produced near perfect journalistic participation in government propaganda operations.
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Thursday, September 04 @ 18:22:21 UTC
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Fox News: unfair and unbalanced_
Andrew Gumbel, The Independent, 29 August, 2003
Al Franken is a satirist, so it's his job to poke fun at powerful people. But when he appropriated the Fox News slogan, the fallout went right to the top. Andrew Gumbel examines a court case that left red faces in high places
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Friday, August 29 @ 19:07:22 UTC
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BBC accused of culture of bullying and harassment
James Doherty, The Scotsman, 28 August, 2003
As the Hutton Inquiry continues to question the quality of its news output, the BBC has come under renewed fire, after a survey of broadcast journalists exposed a systemic culture of bullying and harassment at the heart of the corporation. An Iraqi and Palestinian journalist were summarily sacked on the...
Friday, August 29 @ 19:05:41 UTC
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