Jacksonville Media Watch is an e-mail discussion group, currently hosted by Topica. Along with the list member discussions, you will receive an irregular though fairly frequent "Update" from the Listowner. This web page is not the focus of JMW. If you are interested in discussing the media, please sign up!

After you subscribe to JaxMediaWatch you can join in and discuss the quality of our local media or national media issues or pretty much anything media-related. To join, just click on the above link and send. Then you will need to reply to a Topica mailing to confirm your desire to join.

That's it! Or, for the truly easy way, simply e-mail me, and I will sign you up myself.

If you register at Topica (free), you can read group mail there from your web browser and also read the archives. I will not be keeping archives at this site.

Interesting Articles About the Media

Criticism.com covers some pretty dense, academic topics, but the media crit section has some interesting articles. For instance, the web site owner reviewed a book (Read All About It, by James Squires, former editor of the Chicago Tribune) about how corporate greed has affected America's newspapers.

The Freedom Forum's Media Studies Journal contents page has a number of good articles.

Christiane Amanpour had some scathing things to say about TV news at the 2000 RTNDA meeting. Transcript.

Listmember Brian Rowland's excellent article re media fairness, can be found here.  

Bad News Sells Good News
Excerpts from a 1995 talk by Harper's editor Lewis Lapham. From AmericanReview.net

Living a Professional Lie
A critical piece about the paucity of talent, or even competence, coming from America's journalism schools.

Objectivity becoming only a memory
Robert Bohle says that the cult of personality is now more important than the cult of objectivity.

First Amendment must be changed
Big Government is no longer the worry, it's Big Corporations and maybe a different First Amendment would help protect our mindspace. By Robert Bohle

It's Affluenza season
Advertising, marketing and mindless consumerism. The urge to buy, buy, buy is a disease. By Robert Bohle

The opinions stated herein do not represent in any way the opinions of the University of North Florida, the College of Arts and Sciences or the Department of Communications and Visual Arts. For comments, suggestions, questions and criticism, contact communications professor Robert Bohle at UNF: rbohle@unf.edu

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