 - CampusProgress.org
 Oct 11, 10:04am  (6 reviews) activism, university, journalism, progressives, students http://www.campusprogress.org/- Campus Progress, part of the Center for American Progress, works to help young people -- advocates, activists, journalists, artists -- make their voices heard on issues that matter. Through an online magazine and student publications, public events, multimedia projects, and grassroots issue campaigns, Campus Progress acts to empower new progressive leaders nationwide as they develop fresh ideas, communicate in new ways, push policy outcomes in a progressive direction, and build a strong progressive movement.
- Memo to Media: The Palin Rape-Kit Story Has Not Been Debunked | Reproductive...
- Oct 10, 11:34am (1 review) alternative-news, politics, journalism, media, rape-kit http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejust...
- * "She never supported" the policy, claimed Amanda Carpenter, a national political reporter for Townhall.com.
* "There's no evidence Mayor Palin knew about the policy," agreed an outraged Boston Herald columnist.
* "There is not yet any evidence generated that Palin was aware of this policy," announced NRO.
* "She wasn't even aware it was going on," stressed the NewsBusters writer.
Set aside the oddity of Palin's press supporters pushing her candidacy by emphasizing that she apparently had no idea what the town of Wasilla was doing in her name, and focus on this: Unless Palin had no idea what was going on in her own city government and unless she signed budget documents without actually reading them, the claim is plainly false. And that's where conservatives got schooled by a GW junior named Jacob Alperin-Sheriff. Writing for The Huffington Post's Off The Bus, and crossposting at Daily Kos, Alperin-Sheriff posted by far the most specific and factual analysis of the rape-kit story in terms of Palin's role as mayor and the final say she had over the budget.
Combing through Wasilla's budgetary documents, which are posted online, Alperin-Sheriff showed that Palin had clearly signed off on a fiscal-year budget that reduced by three-quarters the amount of money the town set aside annually for rape-kit costs and that the rape-kit reduction was spelled out before the fiscal-year 2000 budget was approved by Mayor Sarah Palin on April 26, 1999.
This week's bottom line: No matter how many times partisans in the GOP press announce the Palin rape-kit story has been "debunked," the central, undisputed facts remain hidden in plain sight for all to see.
It's time for the press to take a closer look.
- Truthdig - Vetting Sarah Palin
- Oct 8, 4:28pm (2 reviews) alternative-news, journalism, truthdig, palin http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/2008100...
- Vetting Sarah Palin
A Dig compiled by the editors of Truthdig
- Citizens Want Debate Moderators to Challenge Candidate Spin | Free Press...
- Oct 8, 3:48pm (1 review) activism, politics, journalism, free-press, election http://www.freepress.net/node/44906
- The panel thought that Brokaw's decision not to fact-check the candidates or challenge their spin was a problem: 83% of Obama supporters and 75% of McCain supporters wanted to see more challenging follow-up questions from the moderator.
"Like other moderators before him, Brokaw allowed the senators to avoid answering questions and meander to their own comfort zones," said one volunteer rater.
- Sprouts: Journalism Under Siege at the RNC | Free Press
- Oct 8, 3:46pm (1 review) activism, military, journalism, free-press, police-state http://www.freepress.net/node/44874
- American national political conventions have long been known for wacky party hats, a multitude of political buttons, showers of confetti, and long-winded speeches -- inside the convention centers. Outside those walls, in the streets of the host cities, both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions are symbols of political unrest and police crackdowns - and increasingly, a militarized system of silencing voices of demonstrators and journalists covering the stories that happen in those streets. What are the rights of journalists covering stories in public places? Who can be called journalists? And why is journalism still important? Read the transcript here (.doc format).
- Sean Hannity, Robert Gibbs and anti-Semitism: How to go on Fox News -...
- Oct 8, 10:57am (1 review) alternative-news, politics, journalism, propaganda, fox-news http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2...
- In the real world among Americans, Obama won the debate by 15-30 points, but in Fox News World, McCain won the debate by 86-12%. That's what Fox News is and who their viewers are: a right-wing propaganda outlet with an almost entirely unpersuadable viewership. For that reason, I don't understand why the Obama campaign helps legitimize them as a real news network by appearing on Fox programs. But the Obama campaign obviously disagrees and regularly does so
- Race drives strategy, stirs uncertainty - John F. Harris and Jim VandeHei...
- Oct 7, 1:28pm (1 review) alternative-news, journalism, racism, obama, election http://www.politico.com/news/stories/100...
- By far the most likely thing that could derail Obama's victory is a racial backlash that is not visible in today's polls but is waiting to surge on Election Day -- coaxed to the surface (to the extent coaxing is needed) with the help of coded appeals from McCain and his conservative allies.
- Marty Kaplan: Gotcha? You Betcha!
- Oct 6, 2:00pm
 (1 review) journalism http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marty-kapl...
- The Age of the Warrior
- Oct 2, 2:46pm (1 review) alternative-news, books, journalism, international-politics, war http://www.nationbooks.org/book/172/The%...
- Robert Fisk has reported from the Middle East for 32 years and covered 11 major wars. Britain's most celebrated foreign correspondent, he is allowed unique freedom in his essays and columns to speak out against what he sees as "the fraud and injustices of a world in which consent has become automatic." In a journalistic age in which even the mildest criticism of authority is considered subversive, Fisk's reporting is more vital than ever.
In The Age of the Warrior, Fisk's eloquent and far-ranging articles on international politics have been brought together in a single volume for the first time. He takes us from the London bombings to the streets of Lebanon, from war-torn Iraq to the horrors of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, offering courageous, eyewitness accounts of our blood-stained past and present.
A collection of remarkable breadth and power from one of our most popular, provocative and indefatigable journalists, The Age of the Warrior is indispensable reading for our complex, battle-scarred world.
Fisk is currently on a multi-city book tour. Learn where you can get your copy signed.
- Media Channel - Home
- Oct 2, 10:10am journalism http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/20...
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