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Broadcasters Public Service - Website sponsored by trade organization National Association of Broadcasters to publicize public service contributions of broadcast industry.
Free Press - Media reform organization promoting policies to produce a more competitive and public interest-oriented media system with a strong nonprofit and noncommercial sector. Includes how to help, a list of organizations, and a calendar of events.
Media Beat by Norman Solomon - Weekly syndicated column on media and politics, including coverage of media consolidation and its implications. From Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting
National Radio Project - Non-profit organization committed to investigative journalism, analysis, civic participation. Produces "Making Contact" radio program available online.
Smoke in the Eye - A 1996 investigation of the controversial "60 Minutes" profile on the tobacco industry. Synopsis, interviews, and links.
What's Local About Local Broadcasting? - Survey of broadcast programming finds very little local or community oriented programs. 1998 survey by the Media Access Project and Benton Foundation.

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Society: Activism: Media (363)
Society: Issues: Human Rights and Liberties: Free Speech: Censorship (40)

BBC Bias - Selection of links alleging BBC-Labour bias.
Citizens Coalition for Responsible Media - Conservative group dedicated to studying and fighting media bias. Regular features, topical studies, resources for research, and links to similar organizations.
Coloring the News: How Crusading for Diversity Has Corrupted American Journalism - Book by William McGowan asserting that political correctness has corrupted American journalism.
Counterpunch - How to Turn a Priest into a Cannibal - Article offering a critical analysis of the role of the U.S. media during the 2004 coup d'etat in Haiti.
Darker Alliances - Web editorial on the San Jose Mercury News and what constitutes fair reporting.
Fox Attacks: They Distort, We Reply - Includes video clips of Fox hosts and guests making outlandish claims such as there are no homeless vets, or various progressives are terrorist sympathizers, and provides commentary and analysis of the "Fair and Balanced" network.
Mainstream Press Misdeeds - Judi Bari's refutation of mainstream press distorting information about Earth First and other activist groups is laid out at the bottom of this editorial page by Jeff Elliott.
Media Bias Basics - Conservative media watchdog group, the Media Research Center, documents examples of Liberal bias in media, journalists views, and news coverage.
Media Lens - Focuses most of its attention on the UK 'liberal' media, contending that, despite its leftist appearance, the scope and depth of its coverage are circumscribed by commercial considerations.
Media Review Network - Aims to dispel myths and stereotypes about Islam and Muslims and to foster bridges of understanding. Its goal is to monitor, analyse, dissect and evaluate distortions fabrications and double standards about Muslims in the mass media in South Africa. It also aims to fight stereotyping through education and by coordinating and developing Muslim media communication efforts in South Africa.
News Bias Explored - Analyzes what news bias is and how it manifests through real examples and interactive activities. Includes some teaching resources.
Project Censored - Explores and publicize the extent of censorship in society by locating stories about significant issues which are rarely aired in mainstream media.
Reportage - Magazine of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism - Committed to the idea that the media can play a role in making those in power accountable to the public.
Republican Bias in the Media - Articles and links from website that contends media is biased towards support of Republicans and conservative views.
TV News Lies - How the media has helped politicians and the US government lie about every issue from Iraq to AIDS funding. Editorials and a call to action.
The Non-rational Citizen - Author posits people are brainwashed by the mainstream media. Includes additional articles on politics in Canada and some on the US.
Times Watch - Aims at documenting any liberal bias in the coverage of the New York Times. Calls on paper's management to enshrine balanced reporting, or risk forfeiting the Times' standing as the “newspaper of record.”
The Consortium for Independent Journalism - Money, Media & the Mess in America - Editorial stating that sometime after 2009, when historians pick through the wreckage left behind by George W. Bush’s administration, they will have to come to grips with the role played by the professional conservative media infrastructure. (January 28, 2005)

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