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Interesting Links By or About the Media

The media criticism section of American Review magazine is worth a scan.

News Sites
Brill's Content, a terrific site on its own and worth a look, has a site with links to stories in multiple newspapers. It's at All Star Newspaper - dot com.

MediaChannel is a site for international press news. Interesting stories on all aspects of media and even a discussion Forum.

Free! is the Freedom Forum's web site. Lots of interesting links about free speech and press.

For a quick look at the latest news from various sites, check out InfoJunkie. 

My UNF site has interesting Journalism, Search, and Grammar links pages.

Newswatch Organizations
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting has been around for awhile and has a spin, but it's a good read.

NewsWatch, formerly from the Center for Media and Public Affairs was out of funds for awhile, but lucky for us, it's back.

Project Censored lists news stories that don't make the light of day, often because of internal corporate pressures within the news business.

Public Relations
Great multiple reads on Public Relations. It's a hard field to have respect for sometimes.

PR Watch comes to us from the Center for Media and Democracy. Site lists PR campaigns that have avoided the truth.

If you are the target of the ubiquitous flack, and if you have Shockwave on your computer, then you have to love the game Whack A Flack.

Advertising
Adbusters is an organization devoted to fighting the takeover of America by corporate interests. You can sign up for a Culture Jammers e-mail here.

AdCritic.com looks at ads as cultural artifacts. Lots of ad clips to view, including the Bush "RATS" and the Nike chainsaw ads in QuickTime.

AdFlip.com bills itself as the largest archive of classic print ads. Organized by decades.

This ad history site at Duke U. has a good collection of ads from around the turn of the century to the 1920s.

One of the more interesting approaches to how ads affect us is the concept of the "meme." Memes are the basic building blocks of our minds and culture, in the same way that genes are the basic building blocks of biological life. The idea is that ideas spread not because they are "good ideas", but because they contain "good memes" such as danger, food and sex that push our evolutionary buttons and force us to pay attention to them (from the web site). Sound like ads? Check out Meme Central. 

Television and Radio
TV Tattle covers all sorts of angles re the Boob Tube. Mostly stories and links to the entertainment side, but you can find links to articles about TV news, TV and culture and TV advertising.

NewsBlues used to be called a "forum for TV newsroom whiners," sort of an insider's look at TV news -- such as it is. Part of the site requires a subscription fee, but some interesting free stuff is available.

If you like Public Radio, then you are going to love Public Radio Fan's web site. Links to numerous stations, including some from Canada and the Incomparable Beeb (BBC).

Also check out this list of streaming audio and video sites, which contains some great Public Radio links.

Miscellaneous
This British media and communications site has numerous interesting summaries, articles and links

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