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Welcome to Media Watch,
We at ZCom of course provide media, yet we are definitively not in the mainstream. What swims there are corporate and governmental entities that overwhelmingly - when presenting news and social analysis at all - take as a given support for elite machinations and maintanence of elite structures. Understanding this system supporting media, dissecting its deceptive manipulations, combating its oppressive implications, and pressuring it to contain better even against its own inclinations, is the aim of our attention to mainstream media - as well as, in time, replacing it in toto.
Here too, however, you will find articles and content about alternative media - its efforts, logic, etc.
Please send any ideas you may have for other or additional content from our database you think ought to appear in content boxes on this page.
Thank You.
Latest Media
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Husseini: “Violence” and “Free Speech”
Many have focused on President Donald Trump’s statements on Charlottesville...
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Johnson: Media coverage of North Korea
Media coverage has created a massive gap between our desire to attack North Korea and our understanding of the crisis
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Fisk: United against Al-Jazeera
If you're wondering why Saudi Arabia and Israel have united against Al-Jazeera, here's the answer
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Conspiracies Pushed by Atlantic’s Editor Excluded From Atlantic’s Denunciation of Conspiracy Theories
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To his credit, Gov. Dayton cut through this bigotted b.s. and said, that is what this attack was, it was terrorism
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Saperstein: Why Are We So Afraid?
We are living in what is arguably the safest time in history, yet we exist in a culture of fear
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Shalom: The Chemical Attack at Khan Sheikhoun
We can oppose US intervention, while telling the truth about Assad’s chemical weapons use
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Norton: Media Spreading Anti-Iran Narrative
Instead of challenging and informing the public, corporate media speak directly from the perspective of the CIA
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Chowdhury: The disinformation campaign on Venezuela
The upper classes of Venezuela are trying to regain their lost fiefdom. The program of violence they are implementing, which has rocked Venezuela since April 4, 2017, is part of that effort
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Prashad: Largest Humanitarian Crisis Blacked Out
The United States is fueling a conflict that has resulted in war crimes and famine
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Vogel: Transformative Media Coup
The Smiths don't have the name recognition of a Rupert Murdoch, but they're no less dangerous
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Putin's a bit player — the damage to democracy is "homegrown and self-actualized"
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Street: Petroleum Broadcasting System
It is silly to expect anything else at “P”BS, which depends heavily on corporate, including big oil money, contributions
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Mexico is the third deadliest place in the world to do journalism — and the U.S. is making things worse
ZMag Media
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Baroud: How Palestine Disappeared from U.S. Media Coverage
As if he has, overnight, been transformed into a master politician, Donald Trump’s 27-hour trip to Israel has left many analysts mystified.
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Phillips: Propaganda, Fake News, and Media Lies
Both PR and propaganda seek to change behaviors and ideas among the masses in support of the agendas of public and private institutions.
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Herman: The New Anti-Russian Hysteria
It is sad to see the liberals carried away on the wave of hysteria about the supposed Russian information warfare menace and possible influence over or even capture of the Trump presidency. It is also very dangerous to human welfare as it helps consolidate the power of the military-industrial complex
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Street: Reflections on the Not-so Public Broadcasting System
the news and commentary one finds on PBS is in rich tune with the narrow capitalist parameters of acceptable coverage and debate that typify the more fully and explicitly for-profit and commercialized corporate media
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who is going to contain the United States? The U.S. political system has failed its populace and the world and has imposed no brakes on the war machine
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Herman: Public Editors & Structural Bias
Sullivan claims that the NYT has and should maintain “abiding attention to society’s have nots.” To the war on labor and decline of labor unions, which they have scanted for years?
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Wittner: Getting the Story Wrong: The Distortion of Politics by the Press
On the night of April 22, three days after the presidential primary, seven words buried at the end of a Times Union blog let slip the fact that Sanders had won the 20th Congressional district
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Koehler: Opening the Closed Political Culture
In just over a dozen words, the paper managed not only to trivialize everything two presidential candidates stood for, and not only to reference the myth that Nader caused Al Gore to lose an election he didn’t in fact lose, but also to obliterate the last six months of a presidential campaign that had permanently shaken up the political status quo
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Herman: News Fit to Print But Not Printed, Part Two
In Part 1, I began with a case where the New York Times belatedly acknowledged that it had failed to print news fit to print, news which, not coincidentally, contradicted a party-line theme the editors had enthusiastically and uncritically supported five years earlier
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Herman: News Fit to Print But Not Printed, Part One
The daily front page claim by the management of the New York Times that they provide “All the News That’s Fit to Print” is comical in its audacious scope. “All” covers an awful lot of ground, and if pressed the editors might even concede that something “fit to print” might occur in places not covered by their journalists or correspondents
Video Media
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Interview on a wide range of topics, from the development of his personal political views to the control of information and media
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Hersh: Syria, Osama bin Laden and more
Interview about his career and recent articles on Syria and Osama bin Laden
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Martin: Opposition Violence at Venezuela Protests
Violent opposition protesters attempt to intimidate reporters
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Discussion on a wide range of topics from the development of his personal political views to the control of information and media
Blogs Media
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: Media Coverage Misrepresents Yemen’s Real Problems
Yemen has found itself splashed all over the news again...
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Peterson: Srebrenica-Related Graves Through 2002
On behalf of the Bosnian Serb defendant Ljubiša Beara in...
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Paul: ‘The War You Don’t See’: Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel/Palestine
Global Policy Forum, Blog http://globalpolicyinbrief.blogspot.com/ Seven months prior to the...
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Kearns: The “middle class mob”: press coverage of Saturday’s UK Uncut action
Discourses around protests develop pretty quickly such that it's tricky...
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Sinclair: Email exchange with the BBC’s Mark Mardell about US military aid to Egypt
Please see below an email exchange I had in January...
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Campagna: What Are We Struggling For? – Seminar
Last year’s student protests saw a new generation take to...
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Dominick: NY Times’s Sympathy for the Devils
I've spent my entire adult life writing media analysis, so...
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Peterson: Solidarity Versus Indifference — Part 4
When citizens of foreign countries are denied their democratic rights,...
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Peterson: Solidarity Versus Indifference — Part 3
When citizens of foreign countries are denied their democratic...
Media (Main) Links
Audio Media
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Schechter: Michael Albert On Participatory Media
A former member of Students for a Democratic Society, Michael would go on to develop, along with Robin Hahnel, an alternative to market capitalism called participatory economics.
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Wilpert: Announcing TeleSUR English
Greg Wilpert is director of teleSUR English, a newly launched multimedia website that is sponsored by teleSUR, the Latin American TV channel that is funded by the left governments of Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Uruguay, Argentina, Nicaragua, and Cuba
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Bennis: Afghanistan after the Wikileaks War Logs
Interview about the impact of the Wikileaks documents and the...
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Pilger: Journalism and the War on Terror
John Pilger is an acclaimed Australian journalist and documentary maker....
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Robbins: Address to National Association of Broadcasters
A renowned actor, director and writer, Robbins used his keynote...