By Alton Parrish.   Like a lamentable amount of professions before (and even some after), for the longest time “Western” journalism only covered the perspectives of white men. But as society progressed, the field slowly opened [...]

  Report.   With newspapers going under all over the nation, journalism is becoming an increasingly hard field in which to start a career as the number of opportunities in traditional media are rapidly dwindling. Journalism students [...]

By Stephen Lendman. Public anger in Egypt, Turkey, Palestine, Brazil, Chile, across Europe, in America against Wall Street, and elsewhere is real. It’s visceral. It’s deep-seated. It’s growing. It reflects what media scoundrels won’t [...]

  By Pen-Researcher. An interesting report that dates back to the coverage of the Wold Trade Center and how the media played the lines.   15 January 2002. Updated 14 January 2002 by Wayne Madsen: Just put this together from a few [...]

  By Christopher B. Daly. No surprise. The government has decided that it does not want to completely retreat from the field of spying on, investigating, and prosecuting journalists who seek and report the truth about our government’s [...]

  By YouAreBeingManipulated.org. One of the more interesting and used manipulation techniques is called the False Flag manipulation. It’s pretty simple: you do something terrible, and then make sure that there is enough evidence to blame [...]

  By Christopher Daly.   It’s ridiculous to find so many heads of media companies (often with journalistic subsidiaries) on this list of top-paid U.S. executives. If their companies are doing so well, why aren’t they hiring more [...]

  By Filip Spagnoli. Ideally, the free press in a democracy should do the following: Allow the different points of view in political debate to appear and to debate each other (different political parties and different candidates each [...]

  By Christopher B. Daly.   We are living through a period of great flux in the news business. There are new ventures, new hybrids, new devices for gathering and disseminating information, documents, and polemics. It’s a treat to have [...]

    By Masha Egupova. Here comes a new exciting project by Google aimed at connecting to the internet as many people as possible. It seems that Google is trying to dent the monopoly of the state as the sole internet provider. Imagine [...]

  By Irene North. After a hearing in the House of Representatives, the Department of Homeland Security was forced to release their list of hundreds of words that will trigger analysts to monitor behavior online. Naturally, the list [...]

BY CMFR.  CMFR/Philippines – The governor of Zamboanga del Sur province implicated a radio commentator in a libel case against a losing candidate for mayor, accusing the commentator of “using his radio program in airing (the losing candidate’s) [...]

  By Melanie Nathan.   Protesting for freedom of the press in Uganda Today several human rights defenders were arrested outside of the Daily Monitor as they rallied in solidarity against the Ugandan authorities clamp down on freedom [...]

  By Filip Spagnoli.   (SOURCE, THE ORIGINAL IS HERE) Well, it depends, as they say. “Both” is of course the only correct answer. If you’re anoptimist, you would say that: Social media make it easier for people to mobilize [...]

  By Glen Ford. (An interesting article from 2011, dealing with media silence) by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The peaceful strike begun by inmates of several Georgia state prisons continued for a second day on Friday, according [...]

  By Tracy Dennis.   There is an idea out there that’s prevalent but which has little or no scientific support:  that people who use more social media are less sensitive, less empathic, and less emotionally attuned. My students [...]

  By Yana Korobko. It was Napoleon who was already mentioning the mighty of psychological weapon, which can be described as the use of activities that cause fear and anxiety in the people you want to influence without hurting them physically. [...]

  By Cryptome.   Mr. Snowden, please send your 41 PRISM slides and other information to less easily cowed and overly coddled commercial outlets than Washington Post and Guardian. Their arm-waving, self-aggrandizing verbosity, after [...]

    By Project Censored: Stephen Lendman.   It’s standard Times practice. It’s longstanding. On June 6, Times editors praised Obama’s selection of Susan Rice and Samantha Power. They’re deplorable choices. They’ll move [...]

    By Kuvera Chalise.   Global mobile data traffic expanded at 69 per cent in 2012 and is anticipated to grow at 72 per cent this year to reach 23,000 peta bytes, according to a study ABI Research. Total mobile data traffic will [...]