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Israeli Forces Target Journalists in West Bank

By Mel Frykberg | - KAFR QADDOUM, West Bank (IPS) - It is becoming increasingly risky to cover clashes and protests between Israeli security forces and Palestinian protesters in the West Bank…

Palestine: 2014 sees Record number of Journalists Targeted

RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) said Sunday that 2014 saw 465 violations of media freedoms in the occupied West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.…

Mother Jones Catches Bill O’Reilly Lying About Falkland Island War Coverage

Ben Mankiewicz, Jimmy Dore, John Iadarola, and Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks) | - "After NBC News suspended anchor Brian Williams for erroneously claiming that he was nearly shot down in…

Holy War: How Bill O’Reilly & Daesh/ ISIL Share The Same Goal

Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks) "Bill O’Reilly stated definitively, multiple times tonight, that he believes the United States and the world are in a “holy war” against ISIS and the White…

‘American Terrorist': Middle East reacts to Murder of 3 Muslim-American Students in N Carolina

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) - If American mass media seemed reluctant to cover the murder of three Muslims students at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill as a hate…

“Drastic Decline” Seen in World Press Freedom

By Leila Lemghalef UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - A leading advocacy group warns of a “worldwide deterioration in freedom of information” last year.Out of the 180 countries being surveyed, two-thirds have slipped in…

The Daily Show was never ‘real’ news – but came (depressingly) close

Julia Fox, Indiana University | (The Conversation) Jon Stewart’s Tuesday night announcement that he’ll be leaving the Daily Show garnered an audible cry of disbelief from his live studio audience. Stewart himself…

Old White Men Dominate Sunday Political Shows Yet Again

MediaMatters4America | - [A study of the Sunday political television shows demonstrates that 87% of the single-person interviews are done with white males, and 66% of all interviews are, though white men…

The reporter as action hero: what could possibly go wrong?

By Russell Frank | (The Conversation) Longtime New Yorker magazine staff writer Lillian Ross once admonished aspiring reporters not to write about themselves. “As a reporter, serve your subject,” she wrote, “do…

Amal Clooney Seeks talks with Egypt’s Sisi over Client jailed for Committing Journalism

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) - Update: Egypt has announced that Mohamed Fahmy will be retried in Cairo. Human Rights attorney Amal Clooney, wife of the actor George Clooney, wrote to…

Williams Affair: Reagan and Bush Lied about Military Records but Get a Pass

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) - NBC nightly news anchor Brian Williams is under fire for repeatedly having told an embellished story of being in a Chinook helicopter that took RPG…

Huge Win for the Open Internet! FCC Officially Embraces Title II

By Corynne McSherry | Electronic Frontier Foundation | -- Well done, Team Internet. After a year of intense activism, we may have finally convinced the Federal Communications Commission to change course and…

Why is Fox News Propagandist-in-Chief for ISIL/Daesh Atrocities?

John Iadarola, Jimmy Dore, and Desi Doyen | The Young Turks | - "Fox News has chosen to embed on its website the video of Islamic State burning a hostage to death,…

Journalist Greste Freed by Egyptian Junta, but Press Freedom still Hostage

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) - Peter Greste, an Australian journalist working for Aljazeera English, has been released from an Egyptian prison after a 400-day ordeal in which he was jailed…

Network Climate Coverage: The Good, the Bad and the (Mostly) Ugly

MediaMatters4America | - Climate Coverage In 2014: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

The real Meaning of Fox’s “Fair and Balanced”

Paul Jamiol | (Jamiol's World) Via Jamiol's World

Learning from Paris: Are you Charlie Hebdo? (Juan on Radio w/ C. Lydon)

Christopher Lydon | Radio Open Source " Learning from Paris The story of the massacre at Charlie Hebdo has gone everywhere in the past week: into meditations on free speech and blasphemy,…