Media Criticism

Journalists spend most of their time asking other people questions. But there are also plenty of questions we in the media should be asking ourselves.

• Media criticism - US
• Media criticism - Canada
• Media criticism - World
• Censorship
• Ethics

Media Criticism : US

The best:

• Noam Chomsky Archives       From the dean of media critics, a collection of Chomsky's best works
• NewsWatch     Good, hard-hitting criticism of the media
• MediaChannel    Widespread news and views, comments and archives offering world criticism and insight
• CounterPunch Archives
• FAIR (see next section)

FAIR:

• FAIR          Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
• Extra!  Latest issue
• The Best of EXTRA!          FAIR's newsletter, full of criticism
• FAIR Economic Reporting Review      Criticism of American business news coverage
• CounterSpin       Weekly radio show from FAIR which takes on the media
• CounterSpin Archives      Key interviews from the radio show that critiques the mainsteam media.

Media gossip and news:

• Medianews   A well-known site for media insiders, Jim Romenesko's keeps getting better. Now hosted by the Poynter Institute, it continues to feature the latest news about the news business and media industry (mainly American but some international.) The site also features links to media commentators, alternative weeklies and useful journalism sites.
• Iwantmedia  A one-stop site for the latest news about the media business.  Latest developments in the industry, along with links to Media Columns , Media Gossip  and archives by subject. Plus an extensive jobs listing

Other criticism sites:

• Media Watchdogs and Suppressed News
• Media Watch         Home Page of a watchdog group
• MNet Resource Page for Journalists  Media Awareness Network's information on media issues, offering the latest statistics, interview sources, background information, and nearly two years of archived news stories on topics such as cultural sovereignty, privacy, media violence and media ownership.
• New York Press   James Ledbetter's critiques
• Ethics          A guide to ethics
• Faith and the Media    50 articles, essays, studies and presentations
• Journalistic Ethics - University of Indiana   When if ever is it correct to reveal sources?   When do we go too far and invade privacy?  A course guide from the University of Indiana contains dozens of case studies, articles and commentary about journalistic ethics
• Poynter Institute on ethics
• University of Oregon Ethics
• Society of professional journalists
• Arts and Letters daily

• DeductBox   Louisiana politics and media

Media Criticism : Canada

• Actualites Media  - Universite de Laval
• Newswatch  Canada -- (formerly Project Censored)         The big stories that were ignored
• Electronic Frontier Canada              Keep posted about press freedoms on the info highway
• Media Ethics

Media Criticism : World

• Commonwealth Voices  Online debate on new technology and freedom of expression
• FreedomForum   Excellent, widespread coverage of the media
• European Journalism Centre
• News beat    From the third world
• ASNE codes
• European codes