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Action Coalition for Media Education Free
of any funding from Big Media, ACME is an emerging global coalition run by
and for media educators.
Media Reform Network
Free Press is a national, nonpartisan
organization working to reform the media.
University of Iowa
An
index of online
resources
New Mexico Media Literacy Project
An
outreach project of Albuquerque Academy.
Understand Media
Resources to help you understand the way media work.
Big Ten Media Giants - Chart
The Big
Ten conglomerates profiled in The Nation's latest guide to media ownership.
Big Media Overview
Information about how
consolidation in the media industry may change what you hear and see.
PressThink The
press has become the ghost of democracy in the media machine, and we need to
keep it alive.
Center for Digital Democracy
Committed to preserving the openness and diversity of the Internet.
Media Channel
Features criticism, breaking news, and investigative reporting.
Critical Theory, Postmodern Thought
Resources, readings, people.
Museum of Broadcast Communication
Home to
the Radio Hall of Fame and
The Encyclopedia of Television.
Columbia Journalism Review: Who Owns What
Online guide to what major
media companies own.
Media Literacy Review
Resource for educators and others interested in children, adolescents, and
media.
American Newspeak
Scavenged from
the back pages of our
finer newspapers.
Corporate Television:
Who Owns The Networks
We are a corporate society, world, and universe.
SourceWatch
SourceWatch's
primary focus is on documenting
public relations firms
and
think tanks.
Freedom Forum
A
nonpartisan foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit
for all people.
Mediaactioncenter.org
For people
and organizations who are challenging the corporate-driven media.
Listen Up
Our
mission is to help youth be heard in the mass media.
Grade The News
Affiliated with
the Graduate Program in
Journalism
at Stanford University.
CNN Exposed
Created after its founders noticed a growing
bias in CNN's reporting.
Gallup The Gallup
Organization has studied human nature and behavior for more than 70 years.
Media Criticism links
There are
also plenty of questions we in the media should be asking ourselves.
Media-Criticism.com
Media criticism from 1995-2005.
Media For America
Developed
following the 2004 National Conference on Media Reform.
Kalb Report
Researches the media's impact on public policy.
Obligation.org
Reminding businesses and governments of their responsibility to children.
TV News Lies
Welcome to the web site that CNN, FOX News &
MSNBC don’t want you to see.
The New Hucksterism
Stealth ads creep
into a culture saturated with logos and pitches.
Semiotics of New Media Literacy
Why is Semiotics necessary in digital literacy age?
Adflip
Slices of
popular culture including archive of print ads.
Adcritic
Insights into the worlds of creative advertising and commercials production.
False Advertising
A
gallery of parody.
Language of Advertising
A list of the techniques advertisers employ
to make claims for their products.
Emergence of Advertising in America
Over 9,000 images relating to the history of advertising in the United
States.
Advertising Jingles
Here are some jaunty tunes you will remember from
yesteryear.
Deciphering Advertisements
Content analysis
tips.
Writing an Evaluation of an
Advertisement
Deconstruct an advertisement.
Deadly Persuasion
Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising.
Badvertising
Where seeing is believing.
USATV Ads
A collection and catalogue of
American television commercials since 1975.
University of Texas
Dictionary of Advertising Terminology
The Future of Advertising
People are rejecting
traditional sales messages, presenting the ad industry with challenges.
National Institute on Media and the Family
Helps families and educators to minimize the harm of media on children.
Media Matters
Dedicated
to monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the
U.S. media.
Media Transparency
The money behind
conservative media.
Alliance for a Media Literate America
Media
literacy focused on critical inquiry, learning, and skill-building.
Critical Media Literacy in Times of War
This site
focuses on U.S. foreign policy, military invasion and war.
Christian Media Literacy Institute
Equips
educators to teach media evaluation in light of Christian values.
Project Look Sharp
Supports the integration of media literacy into classroom curricula.
Television News Archive
The world's most
extensive and complete archive of television news.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
What's
going on at the museum.
On The Media
How do you
keep the Washington press corps honest?
Rocky Mountain Media Watch
Resist and change the
manipulative and toxic formulas of Big Media’s
news products.
Democracy NOW
A daily radio and TV news program on over 350
stations.
Century Foundation
Rapid
changes in recent years in the way the media function threaten society.
TV Land:Search-O-Matic
Spring flowers wither
- while reruns bloom forever.
News Watch
Center for
Integration and Improvement of Journalism.
Institute for Public
Accuracy
Seeks to
broaden public discourse.
Media Tenor
Institute
for Media Analysis - Comprehensive, Continuous, Current.
Newswatch: News About The News
Key media
news and criticism sites updated daily or weekly.
The Kill Your TV Website
The website dedicated to
exposing television for what it is.
Kill Your Television
Widen your perceptual environment to
again include
the room you are in.
Media Notes
With
Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post.
Media Education Foundation
A
non-profit educational organization devoted to media research and
production.
Center for Media
Education
Focuses on the potential and the peril of media for children and youth.
Assignment Media Literacy
Provides a wide range of teaching tools and
resources for media literacy.
Cursor
The Money Behind the Media
Transparency
Essays
from Transparency have been used as assigned readings in dozens of college
classes.
Top TV Shows By Genre
Top five television shows in each
particular genre - subjective opinions.
TV Free America
A non-profit organization that encourages children and adults to watch less
television.
National Public Broadcasting Archives
An
effort among several broadcasting organizations and educational
institutions.
Museum of Television & Radio
Located in
New York and Los Angeles.
Newseum
The
interactive museum of news.
Reliable Sources,
CNN weekly TV series
CNN's "Reliable
Sources" examines the performance of the media.
Media History Project
Promoting the study
of media history from petroglyphs to pixels.
Take Back the Media
"No one
can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all accomplices." Edward R.
Murrow
Center for Media &
Public Affairs
America's
preeminent news analysts.
Mental Engineering
The
public television series about commercials and our commercial culture.
General Principles in Media Literacy
The media don't
simply give us the world. They interpret reality, tailor it, perform it.
Honest Reporting
Includes
10 principles of media patrolling.
Virtual Institute of Information
Telecommunications research and exhibits
Internet Movie Database
Website
for the entertainment industry featuring over 25,000 agent/contact listings.
Taking ADvantage
An
examination of how advertising can take advantage of the human subconscious.
Fairness & Accuracy
In Reporting
(FAIR, Extra)
National media watch
group.
Fox News Watch,
weekly TV series
Join host
Eric Burns and the "FOX News
Watch" panelists.
A Primer on Analyzing Television Commercials
A television commercial is a
special kind of work of art.
Institute for Propaganda Analysis
When most people think
about
propaganda, they think of Hitler and Stalin in the 1930s.
Mixedmediawatch.com
Tracking
media representations of mixed people.
Media Tank
Are you
tired of today's media climate: full of ads, reality shows, hype and little
substance?
Center for Research on the Effects of
Television
An archive of television content and a research lab.
Media Watch
The web
site of the News Hour with Jim Lehrer.
Archives of African American Music and
Culture
Devoted to the
research and study of African-American music and culture.
Center for Media Literacy
Empowerment through education.
Camera
Committee for Accuracy In Mid-East Reporting in
America.
Columbia Journalism
Review (CJR)
America's
premier media monitor.
Accuracy In Media
(AIM)
For
fairness, balance, and accuracy in news reporting.
New School M.A.
Offers forty media studies courses each semester.
News Hounds
We're eight middle-aged citizens who believe a
viable democracy depends upon viable media.
Columbia Journalism Review
Media Criticism
Wall Street Journal - Classroom Edition
Preparing young people for the decisions that
will shape
their economic future.
All Music Guide
A robust
music discovery and reference site.
FCC
Federal Communications Commission
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