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The Fairness Doctrine How We Lost it, and Why We Need it Back by Steve Rendall
The Fairness Doctrine had two basic elements: It required broadcasters to devote some of their airtime to discussing controversial matters of public interest, and to air contrasting views regarding those matters. Stations were given wide latitude as to how to provide contrasting views: It could be done through news segments, public affairs shows or editorials.
The Fairness DoctorineForces: U.S. & Coalition/Casualties Forces: U.S. & Coalition/Casualties Media NewsTop 12 media myths and falsehoods on the Bush administration's spying scandal Summary: Media Matters presents the top 12 myths and falsehoods promoted by the media on President Bush's spying scandal stemming from the recent revelation in The New York Times that he authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to eavesdrop on domestic communications without the required approval of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court. Top 12 media mythsDon't FOX With Local News Roger Ailes, the architect behind the right-wing tilt of cable news, is now remaking 35 local television stations -- broadcasting to nearly 40 percent of America’s homes -- in Fox News Channel’s image. Don't FOX with local news Stop News Fraud "State-run media" is a phrase normally reserved for regimes such as North Korea that manipulate and censor all public information. Media in the United States were thought to be immune to such autocratic control, but recent maneuvers by the Bush administration should make Americans wonder how free our press actually is. Stop News Fraud Media WatchdogsMedia Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media. Media Matters For AmericaFairness and Accuracy In Reporting What is wrong with the media? Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting Consortium News: Archive Media Crisis ConsortiumNews.Com Media Watch Challenging sexism, racism and violence in the media through education and action. Media Watch NEWSWATCH.org views on the news NEWSWATCH.org National Coalition Against Censorship NCAC The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), founded in 1974, is an alliance of 50 national non-profit organizations, including literary, artistic, religious, educational, professional, labor, and civil liberties groups. United by a conviction that freedom of thought, inquiry, and expression must be defended, we work to educate our own members and the public at large about the dangers of censorship and how to oppose them. National Coalition Against Censorship NCAC Online NewsHour: MediaWatch The website of the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Online NewsHour: MediaWatch Center For Media and Democracy The Center for Media and Democracy is a nonprofit organization that works to strengthen democracy by promoting media that are "of, by and for the people" - genuinely informative and broadly participatory - and by removing the barriers and distortions of the modern information environment that stem from government- or corporate-dominated, hierarchical media. Center For Media and Democracy Committee To Protect Journalists The Committee to Protect Journalists is an independent, nonprofit organization founded in 1981. We promote press freedom worldwide by defending the right of journalists to report the news without fear of reprisal. Committee To Protect Journalists Media Watchdog Reviews and Analyses a collection of links to organizations and individuals engaged in monitoring the media, and student-authored analyses of these monitors. Clicking on the name of the media monitor will take you to the student critique, and the URL will take you to the site itself. Media Watchdog Reviews and Analyses Take Back the Media |