- #1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation
- # 2 Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA
- # 3 InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business
- # 4 ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America?
- # 5 Seizing War Protesters’ Assets
- # 6 The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act
- # 7 Guest Workers Inc.: Fraud and Human Trafficking
- # 8 Executive Orders Can Be Changed Secretly
- #9 Iraq and Afghanistan Vets Testify
- # 10 APA Complicit in CIA Torture
- # 11 El Salvador’s Water Privatization and the Global War on Terror
- # 12 Bush Profiteers Collect Billions From No Child Left Behind
- # 13 Tracking Billions of Dollars Lost in Iraq
- # 14 Mainstreaming Nuclear Waste
- # 15 Worldwide Slavery
- # 16 Annual Survey on Trade Union Rights
- # 17 UN’s Empty Declaration of Indigenous Rights
- # 18 Cruelty and Death in Juvenile Detention Centers
- # 19 Indigenous Herders and Small Farmers Fight Livestock Extinction
- # 20 Marijuana Arrests Set New Record
- # 21 NATO Considers “First Strike” Nuclear Option
- # 22 CARE Rejects US Food Aid
- # 23 FDA Complicit in Pushing Pharmaceutical Drugs
- # 24 Japan Questions 9/11 and the Global War on Terror
- # 25 Bush’s Real Problem with Eliot Spitzer
Thursday
Top 25 Censored Stories 2009
How to Read a Newspaper
How to Read a Newspaper for National and International News
To take command of the way the mass media influence your thinking about the world, you must learn how to see through their biases and appreciate dissenting as well as mainstream points of view. Only then can you come to well-reasoned conclusions using a balanced approach. At present, few people have developed the skills to do this.
- interpret events from the perspective of multiple views
- find multiple sources of thought and information, not simply those of the mass media
- identify the viewpoints embedded in news stories
- mentally re-write (reconstruct) news stories through awareness of how stories are told from multiple perspectives
- assess news stories for their clarity, accuracy, relevance, depth, breadth, and significance
- identify contradictions and inconsistencies in the news (often in the same story)
- identify the agenda and interests served by a story
- identify the facts covered and the facts ignored in a news story
- identify the points of view systematically presented in a favorable light and those presented in an unfavorable light
Monday
Top Censored Stories 2008
- #1 No Habeas Corpus for “Any Person”
- #2 Bush Moves Toward Martial Law
- # 3 AFRICOM: US Military Control of Africa’s Resources
- # 4 Frenzy of Increasingly Destructive Trade Agreements
- #5 Human Traffic Builds US Embassy in Iraq
- #6 Operation FALCON Raids
- #7 Behind Blackwater Inc.
- #8 KIA: The US Neoliberal Invasion of India
- #9 Privatization of America’s Infrastructure
- # 10 Vulture Funds Threaten Poor Nations’ Debt Relief
- # 11 The Scam of “Reconstruction” in Afghanistan
- # 12 Another Massacre in Haiti by UN Troops
- # 13 Immigrant Roundups to Gain Cheap Labor for US Corporate Giants
- # 14 Impunity for US War Criminals
- # 15 Toxic Exposure Can Be Transmitted to Future Generations on a “Second Genetic Code”
- #16 No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11
- # 17 Drinking Water Contaminated by Military and Corporations
- # 18 Mexico’s Stolen Election
- # 19 People’s Movement Challenges Neoliberal Agenda
- # 20 Terror Act Against Animal Activists
- # 21 US Seeks WTO Immunity for Illegal Farm Payments
- # 22 North Invades Mexico
- # 23 Feinstein’s Conflict of Interest in Iraq
- # 24 Media Misquotes Threat From Iran’s President
- # 25 Who Will Profit from Native Energy?
Wednesday
New practice: murketing
murketing
n.
A form or marketing where the product or service is not mentioned or shown. [Blend of murky and marketing.]
—murketer n.
"I, unlike the DMA and 21st Century MUrketing [sic], realize that
mutual consent is a requirement for economic transactions in a free
society regardless of attempts to characterize those transactions as
speech."
—Joe Moore, "MEDIA: Rebuttal from 21st Century Marketing in DMNews.com," news.admin.net-abuse.email, December 7, 1999
n.
A form or marketing where the product or service is not mentioned or shown. [Blend of murky and marketing.]
—murketer n.
"I, unlike the DMA and 21st Century MUrketing [sic], realize that
mutual consent is a requirement for economic transactions in a free
society regardless of attempts to characterize those transactions as
speech."
—Joe Moore, "MEDIA: Rebuttal from 21st Century Marketing in DMNews.com," news.admin.net-abuse.email, December 7, 1999
Monday
Ad Creep Hits the Bike Lanes
from treehugger:
"We have complained before about ad creep, how the public
realm is being taken over by private marketers. I don’t know if I
should be happy or sad that the Egg Farmers of Canada have determined
that there are enough cyclists in London, Ontario that they want to pay
to advertise to them by painting ads onto bike lanes."
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