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Stewart Ogilby, Editor

Something happened on 9-11 The Shell Game (or see video below) - see also: Press Release Operation Mockingbird: CIA Media Manipulation OUTFOXED - Rupert Murcoch's War on Journalism The Internet Must Die The Western Media Deceives the World About the Iraq Invasion Behind Military Analysts, the Pentagon’s Hidden Hand STOP ILLEGAL PENTAGON PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN But, lest you think this is new, it was done to the US public even more efficiently in 1915-1917 - see The Great Madness "Blow up the towers, cut the cables..." - a revolutionary idea. Action urged to keep net neutral A Free Internet From An Historical Perspective -- Stewart Ogilby (The Late) M.L. King Still Silenced CNN has had 46 stories on Tibet this week and 0 (NONE) about Palestine New York Times Company Posts Loss AOL News Networking Website Bans Prison Planet J'Accuse...! -- History of Emile Zola's famous 1898 front-page letter. Press, Officials, Ignore Exploding Drug Abuse Corporate Media's Virtual Blackout on Iraq Atrocity Hearings FBI Documents Contradict 9/11 Commission Report The Federal Reserve (videos) -- don't miss Parts #2 & #3 on "mass media" THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES -- When you have an hour to watch this, come back and do so. POLL: Over Half Of Americans Say They Do Not Trust The Press -- A new Harris Interactive poll finds that over half of Americans — 54 percent — say they tend not to trust the press, “with only 30 percent tending to trust the press.” More Americans (41 percent) trust “Internet news and information sites” than they do the mainstream media. A new BBC documentary supports the conclusion that the CIA planned and executed the assassination of Robert Kennedy. Experts: Sirhan Sirhan Did Not Kill RFK Top Ranking CIA Operatives Admit Al-qaeda Is a Complete Fabrication Outrageous Anti-Pot Lies: Media Uses Disgraceful Cancer Scare Tactics See Bigeye.com for Marijuana Facts Journalist-Bites-Reality! -- How broadcast journalism is flawed in such a fundamental way that its utility as a tool for informing viewers is almost nil. The U.S. Media's Dirty Little Secret -- The Exposion of the 9-11 Truth Movement Ron Paul was cheated on CNN "debate" "The media acts as a megaphone for those in power" -- Amy Goodman Interview CBS airs a BIG LIE -- Falsifies Iraq War History -- and other mealy-mouthed "media watchdog sites" trip over their own intellectual baggage. FOX News vs. The People - (video) Webmaster's note: This site was started with some understanding of the value of publishing a synopsis of online criticism of popular mass media. The closer we look at this subject the more disgusted we become. FOX, NBC, CBS, CNN, major newspapers -- the problem is far worse than we realized initially. How the Pentagon Planted a False Hormuz Story Anyone else old enough to remember the Gulf of Tonkin "incident"? The BBC's 'WTC 7 Collapsed At 4:54 p.m.' Videos Press or Propaganda? You Decide... How the American Media Enables Bush Unmuzzling High School Journalists Should Big Media Choose Our Candidates? We are all familiar with the media-driven "global warming" topic, right? Global Warming -- an important video A Year of Global Cooling New Study Explodes Human-Global Warming Story "Global Warming" -- Media-driven hot air Russian scientist says Earth could soon face new Ice Age The Deceit Behind Global Warming Do you remember Waco? See below -- "In ways that have become typical, the media and government worked together in this disaster. One day before the raid, the Waco Tribune-Herald started a series on "The Sinful Messiah." On the morning of February 28, 1993, before BATF arrived at Mt. Carmel, at least 11 reporters were on the scene already. After the religious community was torched, the entire media participated in the beatification of Janet Reno for her actions in Waco." Read the 1994 article -- by Rep. Ron Paul. The Influence of Government over Media YouTube videos -- The media and Iraq war Sibel Edmunds says American media have refused her offer to disclose classified information, including 911 criminal allegations Scott McClellan, former Whitehouse spokesperson, claims both President and VP were involved in Valerie Plame leak The Media's Plan to Ambush Ron Paul Bill Moyers on What’s Wrong With Our Media Save the Internet Ron Paul Is Not Being Included In Polls How Did We Get Here? -- You have the "mainstream" media to thank for the Iraqi quagmire We are ranked #7 in top 20 Current Events category! The Mass Media and Ron Paul -- Stewart Ogilby

News and information you will find only on the internet Money As Debt - video by Paul Grignon This video might take 10-20 seconds to load. click photo below Press Releases -- Free Press HBO in this country and Thames Television in the U.K. sponsored a television trial called "The Trial of James Earl Ray." The trial was prepared in 1992 and it began and was tried in 1993, the 25th anniversary of the assassination of Martin King. It took the jury about seven hours after that television trial to come back with a verdict of Not Guilty, James Earl Ray. You probably never heard of that. Because it was not reported anywhere and if it was it was mentioned once or twice in a couple of media entities. It was called "entertainment." It wasn't really serious you see. It was a form of entertainment. The consolidation of the control of the media is a major problem in this democracy as it is in most democracies today. I don't know how democracy can function when people are not allowed information that's essential for the decision-making process. But rather they get propaganda continually. -- from a talk given by Atty. Wm. F. Petter, author of An Act of State -- The Execution of Martin Luther King. Who Killed Martin Luther King? Manufacturing Dissent? "Tyrants become obvious only when looking back, after what they have done becomes known. The German people did not stand up to Hitler because their media betrayed them, just as the American media is betraying the American people by willingly, voluntarily, even proudly, abandoning its traditional role as watchdog against government abuse." To read the full article click here IN MEMORY OF GARY WEBB Gary Webb 1955-2004 -- R.I.P. Gary Webb: Do What He Did Gary Webb: A Great Reporter Hung Out to Dry: How Webb's Series Died America's Debt to Gary Webb Gary Webb: Unembedded Reporter The Life and Times of Gary Webb Dark Alliance - editor's comments More Pieces in the Suicided Puzzle Dark Alliance returns to the internet! Ex-DEA Head Admits CIA Imported Cocaine ADVERTISEMENT

Noam Chomsky interview -- This is a lengthy interview. Read it fully for his comments on media. Media Blackout: 161 Federal Tax Charges, 0 Convictions CBS News hid Abu Ghraib crimes Official U.S. history of atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is more fiction than fact Mainstream Media is Selling Another War "Hitler was TIME Magazine's Man Of The Year in 1938. Stalin was TIME Magazine's Man Of The Year for 1939 and 1942. Both of these men, and many others also celibrated by the media, were unimaginable monsters. The lesson from these facts is that it isn't easy to spot a genocidal tyrant when you live with one, especially one whom the press supports and promotes." Read the entire article Dan Rather: Government Influencing Newsrooms -- DUH!!! Ron Paul is Far Ahead in GOP Straw Polls -- (more news you didn't see) The Bollyn Trial: The Criminalization of an Outspoken Journalist Recent 911 News Surpressed by the Media Operation Mockingbird: CIA Media Manipulation The Censorship of Ron Paul Ron Paul Wins Five Straw Polls, Mainstream Media Remains Silent Democracy's Invisible Line -- Noam Chomsky on journalism in democracies FOX News and the Washington Post made sure not to mention Ron Paul on the list of Iowa Straw Poll results Ron Paul Champions Internet Freedom The Media is the Enemy Media ignores data on political donations from military Why Are They Lying About Ron Paul? An Appeal from Paul Craig Roberts Sign petition -- Protest blatant CBS censorship! Bill Moyers on Rupert Murdoch (Video) Corporate media disgraces itself, blacking out impeachment news Media downplays Ron Paul's rally The Murdoch Factor Attention: ALL WORKING JOURNALISTS -- Protest corporate-elite's editorial PC manipulation. Decline to be used further politically. If your paper won't publish an important article, contact us. Unique Resource -- Federal government documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, as well as FOIA Case Logs -- These are lists of requests agencies have received under FOIA. They are excellent resources for reporters because you can see who is asking for what, and what types of records the agencies are able to provide. Can we create free and responsible public news media? YOU can help. Use the links to the right. Open a "Media Contacts" window. Then copy and paste email addresses after opening the "Send emails" link beneath it. If you wish, add your own comments about becoming independent and not being a shill for the government propaganda machine. Send a message: Media Contacts More Media Contacts The Truth About Who Suffers A Horror Story the MSM Has Tried to Bury Ron Paul: Total Victory, Yet Censorship Continues Frontline's NEWSWAR -- An investigation into the future of news The Bill Moyers documentary on our failed and barren press Our Captive Media Ethical Problems of Mass Murder Coverage In The Mass Media The truth about fake news The unresolved story of ABC News' false Saddam-anthrax reports Media manipulation on a grand scale Bill Moyers on Big Media "Our Democracy is in Danger of being Paralyzed" — Bill Moyers Good Watchdog Sites - for frequent access CJR Daily mediamatters.org dailyhowler.com The Nation Institute We urge everyone to watch the above video (free on Google) about the Jersey Girls' efforts to uncover the truth. The video raises significant questions challenging the official explanation of the 9/11 attacks and the involvement of our news media. Article suggesting a viable solution to the news/entertainment dilemma Networks Criticized for Lack of Anna Nicole Smith Coverage Another US Military Assault on Media CNN Propagates False Iran Claim That Even White House Rejects New York Times Breaks Own Anonymity Rules Mother Fights for Jailed Journalist Son Interview with Sherman Austin - July 30, 2006 Blogger in Jail Longer Than Any Journalist in History Internet Freedom At Risk What can we do about the state of the American media? CBS Refuses to Publish Iraq Footage Newspapers' Nosedive The Pentagon vs. Press Freedom Upcoming Conference on Constitutional Theories of Media Reform The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007 The Rebel Journalist - Wilfred Burchett Still Not the News: Stations Overwhelmingly Fail to Disclose VNRs Keep Local TV News Free of Corporate Propaganda Danish journalists on trial for publishing leaked intelligence reports on Iraq CNN editors pull Palestinian quotes, replace with US The Tragedy of Gary Webb FBI, Ohio Republicans Jail AntiWar Publisher Documentary Filmmaker and Indymedia Reporter Assassinated Why is the American press silent on the report of 655,000 Iraqi deaths? Journo Was Killed By US Troops I am Blogger - Hear me Roar! Lawyer Says FCC Ordered Study Destroyed Why Did the FCC Bury Studies on Media Consolidation? Why Media Ownership Matters Americans deserve media that won't bow to Bush The Hiroshima Cover-Up Think Again: Al Jazeera One Side of the Picture Journalists besieged over Iraq, terror news Mainstream Media virtually ignores offically-declared "State of Emergency" in Iraq It's Time to Break Up the Media How the Press Rolled Over for Bush Media Failed Its Duty in Lee Case Stand Up for Democracy With Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The Media's Bloody Footprints Proof of 9/11 Lies by the US Government and Media Bush 'planted fake news stories on American TV' Job Disinformation From The New York Times Major US newspapers ignore the horror of napalm use in Iraq!!!! How the NYT covered (up)the leaked British memos on Iraq Big Media Interlocks with Corporate America The Downing Street Memo Bush Lied, and Press Can't be Bothered to Report on it Americans deserve media that won't bow to Bush Stop the Crime of the Century ". . . we are evidently going have to take this country back ourselves, without even the benefit of a competent media to report the news." Defendant Rumsfeld — Secretary of Defense sued for torture while media cover Michael Jackson trial Handmaiden of the State - Justin Raimondo State Propaganda: How Government Agencies Produce Hundreds of Pre-Packaged TV Segments the Media Runs as News Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Laurie Garrett Quits Newsday: "When You See News As a Product...It's Impossible To Really Serve Democracy" 'Dean Scream' Clip Was Media Fraud Pentagon Practice of Paying Journalists to Influence Public Opinion Sex, Lies, and Jeff Gannon: The Unmasking of a Media Whore Pentagon considering more media deception abroad Media Accused of Ignoring Election Irregularities US Media Applauds Destruction of Fallujah Defeat the Press — The State Silences Dissent Could the Associated Press (AP) Rig the Election? Media Blackout — The Press (Left and Right) Continues to Ignore Labor Opposition to the Iraq War Journalist Laments State of War Coverage The People's Media Reaches More People than FOX Does Project Censored Page - from Third World Tarveler Lies of The New York Times - that took lives Media and Mind Control - Scathing indictment of U.S. "journalism" Media Coverage of Iraq called "Shameful" by Peers Corporate Media Propaganda and its Weapons of Mass Distraction US government is now arresting, detaining, and deporting foreign journalists Politicizing War on Fox News The Media's Double Standard "If this is press freedom, who needs oppression?" You will never see this on CNN. . . Gareth Jones — Hero of Ukraine How press barons, governments silence dissent Governmental Agitprop Replaces U.S. News CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR IS RIGHT ABOUT THE US MEDIA A Detailed Analysis by TvNewsLies.org How the War on Terrorism Affects Access to Information and the Public's Right to Know MediaReform.net — striving to ensure a diverse, independent and free media. BLACK-OUT AT THE TIMES -- Readers Forced to View Unsolicited Corpornography — Greg Palast News Media Industry's Criticism of Iraq Coverage Reveals Deeper Problems with Mainstream Journalists' Conception of News Silence of the Media Lambs: The Election Story Never Told Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press The NY Times and the Screwing of Cynthia McKinney The News About the News Alternative Media Watch Cursor — Media Patrol Znet Media Watch Eliminating Truth: The Development of War Propaganda MediaLens The Nuremberg Tribunal and the Role of the Media There is no Media Media Consolidation Solving the Riddle of Media Manipulation If you think that censorship is something new in our country read paragraphs 6-9 carefully. Holt Uncensored — A weekly email column and website about books and the book industry written by Pat Holt, former Book Review Editor and Critic for The San Francisco Chronicle. Now contains media criticism. BuzzFlash News Analysis Archives Media Giants Key media news and criticism sites updated daily or weekly.

Buzzflash.com's Media Watch - a new column selected every day or two Jim Romenesko's Media News - updated 5:15 p.m. ET, Friday iwantmedia.com - returning Nov. 26 with new format andnew features Media Guardian - British and European media news Online NewsHour Media Watch - Terence Smith examines the media for Jim Lehrer Off the Record - Carl Swanson's Wednesday media column in The New York Observer

For links to alternate news, click here For those of you interested in digging deeper into the world of media criticism, we've provided thumbnail guides to some of the more well-known academic, institutional and watchdog sites:

Accuracy in Media (AIM) Accuracy In Media is a non-profit, grassroots citizens watchdog of the news media that critiques botched and bungled news stories and sets the record straight on important issues that have received slanted coverage. American Journalism Review (AJR) is published 10 times a year by the University of Maryland School of Journalism. AJR's site contains  full text versions of selected articles from the magazine and  links to thousands of newspapers, magazines, and other U.S. media sites. The Annenberg Public Policy Center, part of the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Pennsylvania,  researches media and communications policy issues. In 1998, the Center's Campaign Quality Project scrutinized political discourse with the aim of discouraging negative campaign tactics. Its site offers updates on the Center's research programs, conferences and other activities. Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (UK) The Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom is an independent voice for media reform working to promote policies for a diverse, democratic and accountable media. The Center for Media and Democracy The nonprofit Center for Media and Democracy strengthens participatory democracy by investigating and exposing public relations spin and propaganda, and by promoting media literacy and citizen journalism, media "of, by and for the people". Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) was founded in 1961 "to assess the performance of journalism in all its forms; to call attention to its shortcomings and strengths; to help define and redefine the standards of honest, responsible service; to help stimulate continuing improvement in the profession; and to speak out for what is right, fair and decent." It's published bimonthly by the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Selected articles are available on their site. Editor & Publisher is a weekly magazine covering all aspects of the North American newspaper industry. Its website, Editor & Publisher Interactive, is updated on a daily basis with news items and regular columns. Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) argues that the "mainstream media are increasingly cozy with the economic and political powers they should be watchdogging." In response, FAIR criticizes pro-establishment media bias and media practices that they feel marginalize minority or dissenting viewpoints. FAIR's Web site offers activist alerts, stories from its bi-monthly magazine, EXTRA!, an audio-only archive of its Counterspin radio show and an archive of Norman Solomon's weekly Media Beat column including the annual P.U.-litzer awards for the year's worst journalism. The Free Expression Policy Project The Free Expression Policy Project (FEPP), founded in 2000, provides research and advocacy on free speech, copyright, and media democracy issues. In May 2004, FEPP became part of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. Free Press  Free Press is a national nonpartisan organization working to increase informed public participation in crucial media policy debates, and to generate policies that will produce a more competitive and public interest-oriented media system with a strong nonprofit and noncommercial sector. Grade the News  Grade the News is a special project of KTEH, public television for Silicon Valley, and it is affiliated with Stanford University's Graduate Program in Journalism. It is funded by a grant from the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation in San Francisco. The Media Center at the American Press Institute is funded by a grant from the Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation with the aim of helping the newspaper industry adapt to the new technological environment created by the Internet. Its Web site offers summaries of Media Center conferences, and its Issues & Answers page provides frequently updated summaries of the top issues facing newspapers in the Information Age. MediaChannel is a nonprofit, public interest Web site dedicated to global media issues. MediaChannel offers news, reports and commentary from its international network of media-issues organizations and publications, as well as original features from contributors and staff. Executive editor, Danny Schechter, posts columns on the site's Web log every day, and invites everyone to get into the conversation. The Nieman Foundation at Harvard funds fellowships for 24 journalists to pursue 10 months of independent study at Harvard University. Their site provides information about the program, plus a quarterly journal about the debates affecting the news industry. Online Journalism Review (OJR), is published weekly by the  Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. It evaluates online journalism and  emphasizes the application of journalistic standards to the Internet. OJR offers a free e-mail newsletter for subscribers. Pew Center for Civic Journalism is funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts to encourage print and broadcast news organizations to directly engage citizens "in dialogues that lead to problem solving." They provide grants to news organizations to encourage them to practice civic journalism. Their site contains studies and updates on a host of ongoing civic journalism projects, aimed at working journalists, researchers, educators and civic groups. The Center is not affiliated with the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. Pew Research Center for the People and the Press   (formerly the Times Mirror Center for the People, the Press and Politics) is an independent group that examines public attitudes toward on the media,  politics, and public policy issues. It is funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, but is not affiliated with the Pew Center for Civic Journalism. The Pew Research Center regularly conducts national surveys measuring public attentiveness to major news stories and social and political trends. Their website provides reports and data from surveys conducted since 1996 (which you can download for free), and a library of older reports available for a moderate fee. The Poynter Institute is a school for journalists, future journalists, and teachers of journalists. No matter what their job title may be, journalists come to Poynter in a search for excellence. The Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) is an initiative by journalists to clarify and raise the standards of American journalism,  funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Their site details the PEJ's projects on local TV news and the state of the American newspaper, and hosts reports from the Committee of Concerned Journalists, a panel convened jointly with the Nieman Foundation. VitalSTATS is published monthly by the Statistical Assessment Service, a nonpartisan research organization related to CMPA, and is dedicated to improving public understanding of scientific and statistical information.  VitalSTATS points out inaccuracies, questions dubious conclusions and applauds conscientious reporting. Its annual "Dubious Data Awards" recognizes the ten most misleading, misreported or misunderstood science and statistical news stories.  Full text versions of VitalSTATS are posted on the STATS Web site.

If you know of additional sites to which we should link, please contact Stewart Ogilby -- Stewart (*AT*) bigeye.com.

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