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04/30/08
Media Savvy: Pentagon Pundit Scandal Broke the Law

By Diane Farsetta and Sheldon Rampton, PR Watch

The Pentagon military analyst program unveiled in last week's expose by David Barstow in the New York Times was not just unethical but illegal. It violates, for starters, specific restrictions that Congress has been placing in its annual appropriation bills every year since 1951.

Military Propaganda Pushed Me Off TV

By Jeff Cohen
There was no room for me after MSNBC launched "Countdown: Iraq" - a show that seemed more keen on glamorizing a potential war than scrutinizing or debating it.

Have You Left No Sense Of Decency?

By Bob Cesca, Huffington Post
If the corporate media had been as diligent about watchdogging President Bush as they have been about watchdogging Reverend Wright, it's very likely we wouldn't have invaded Iraq.

Getting Away With Murder

By Committee To Protect Journalists
CPJ's impunity index ranks countries where killers of journalists go free.

New Report Finds Global Media Freedom Down In 2007

By Kent Klein, VOA News
The U.S. based organization Freedom House says media freedom declined in many parts of the world last year.

School For Scandal?

By Tom Goldstein, Columbia Journalism Review
A media critic takes aim at journalism education.

WSJ's Editor's Resignation Is Criticized By Committee

By Steve Stecklow, Wall Street Journal
A committee that oversees WSJ's editorial integrity said they should have been informed earlier that the managing editor, Marcus Brauchli, had been pressured to resign.