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English Al-Jazeera expects 'scrutiny'

20 Nov 2006

The newsroom at Al-Jazeera International on K Street is newer than most — everything is digital — but producers and editors monitor events around the globe via computer just as they do at CNN, NBC, ABC and CBS. Competitors, however, "are...

Challenge - issue 100

19 Nov 2006

Challenge, a magazine covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and run by the Workers' Advice Centre, WAC, which is supported by WACC, has just published its one hundreth issue. In this issue: In January 1990, at the height of the first...

Religious Flavor or Fervor?

14 Nov 2006

Religion in America is a divisive, interesting, engaging topic to discuss. Therefore, it is certainly a valid field for journalistic exploration. Also, it is relevant to discuss this in the context of character, personality and background when c...

Disney's PR Strategy Unhealthy for 'Little Consumers'

12 Nov 2006

Disney says it's concerned about kids' eating habits. But the company can't turn down the huge profits associated with helping junk-food companies market to children. The announcement this week by Disney that the company is placing nutrition...

Iraqi Death Rate May Top American Civil War -- But Will the Press Confirm It?

12 Nov 2006

With mass killings occurring every day in Iraq, and Americans falling at one of the highest daily rates of the entire war, it’s no wonder that support for the conflict in the U.S. continues to slip. What the American press, public and political...

Daniel Davies on the Lancet study, Peggy Charren on the FCC and indecency

12 Nov 2006

When a study in the British Medical journal the Lancet found that hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died as a consequence of the war, the Lancet was dismissed by George W. Bush, who called its methodology flawed. American media outlets also c...

Indymedia activist and mexican teacher killed in Oaxaca

12 Nov 2006

William Bradley Roland, aka Brad Will, a U.S. journalist and camerman, was shot and killed yesterday in Oaxaca, Mexico, by paramiliaries affiliated with the PRI, the former Mexican ruling party. Will was in Oaxaca covering the continued resistan...

Saddam Hussein verdict postponed until two days before U.S. election: Will the media turn a skeptical eye?

5 Nov 2006

While it cannot definitively be said that the reason the senior Iraqi court in charge of Saddam Hussein's trial postponed its verdict in the case until two days before the November elections so that it would influence the midterms, the postponem...

Iraq's "Daily Show" fake news TV: "Hurry Up, He's Dead!"

5 Nov 2006

Nearly every night here for the past month, Iraqis weary of the tumult around them have been turning on the television to watch a wacky-looking man with a giant Afro wig and star-shaped glasses deliver the grim news of the day. In a recent...

U.S. TV Broadcasts Leaving Some Cubans in the Dark

3 Nov 2006

Cuba has jammed the latest anti-Castro television programing beamed over by the United States, according to an informal survey of Cubans who tried to watch the shows that included baseball's championship series. But the U.S. agency that over...