[Media-watch] some postings from www.mwaw.org

[David Crouch]

Hope these are useful! 

We're trying to get the site in a condition that helps build the movement
once more. If any of you can point me to good internet resources on Iraq,
and the media, it would be much appreciated.

Dave
Media Workers Against the War

1. Operation Perfect Storm: The Press and the Iraq War
W. Lance Bennett, Political Communication Report, Fall, 2003 
If the first Iraq war was named Desert Storm, the second might be called
Perfect Storm. The run-up to the 2003 war witnessed an extraordinary
convergence of factors that produced near perfect journalistic participation
in government propaganda operations. ...
Read more: <http://www.mwaw.org/article.php?sid=2766>

2. Fox News: unfair and unbalanced?
Andrew Gumbel, The Independent, 29 August, 2003 Al Franken is a satirist, so
it's his job to poke fun at powerful people. But when he appropriated the
Fox News slogan, the fallout went right to the top. Andrew Gumbel examines a
court case that left red faces in high places ...
Read more: <http://www.mwaw.org/article.php?sid=2759>

3. BBC accused of culture of bullying and harassment
James Doherty, The Scotsman, 28 August, 2003 As the Hutton Inquiry continues
to question the quality of its news output, the BBC has come under renewed
fire, after a survey of broadcast journalists exposed a systemic culture of
bullying and harassment at the heart of the corporation. An Iraqi and
Palestinian journalist were summarily sacked on the...
Read more: <http://www.mwaw.org/article.php?sid=2758>

4. Government image crisis: don't blame the BBC
Media Tenor, August 2003 Coverage of the British government and Prime
Minister Tony Blair in BBC and ITV evening news 1-7/2003 ...
Read more: <http://www.mwaw.org/article.php?sid=2753>



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