Everything but the Truth?

Kevin Newsom writes on the topic of truth in media and shares his opinions with us.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_newsom_123002_truth.html

Tell The Truth!

Is our liberal media censoring and manipulating the news in the same way that they accuse conservative media outlets of doing? here's a story touching on that subject.


http://www.mediaresearch.org/campaign/04/welcome.asp

Color Bloggers, challenging the Media?

This article shows us how color bloggers are adding a new element to media, and challenging how our mainstream media portrays certain stories.

http://marcelinopena.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/color-bloggers-truth-talks-media-balks/

Your news created by conservatives?

This study shows that the majority of those working in our media are in fact conservatives.

http://halfricanrevolution.blogspot.com/2007/09/truth-media-is-anything-but-liberal.html

Truth In Media an Oxymoron?

This article by Phil Brennan posted on Newsmax.com touches on only a few of the many incidents in where our media has fallen short of their duty to report on the actions of our governemnt.

http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/10/7/193149.shtml

Powerful words spoken by John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff for the New York Times in 1953

This speech which he gave in 1953 shows that our country's has been battling truth in the media for many years.

http://www.heall.com/medicalfreedom/mediablackout.html

Great Quotes From our Favorite Pundit.

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/billoreilly/a/oreillyquotes.htm

Great Quotes From our Favorite Pundit.

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/billoreilly/a/oreillyquotes.htm

New Poll, same guy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8ocKiHEzvM&NR=1

Globilization of Media Ethics?

http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdf?vid=6&hid=3&sid=def845d7-b6d4-4b55-a872-dab9bfe53f4d%40sessionmgr9>

This PDF explains the conflicts associated with this idea.

Globilazting Media Ethics?

http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdf?vid=6&hid=3&sid=def845d7-b6d4-4b55-a872-dab9bfe53f4d%40sessionmgr9>

This PDF explains the conflicts associated with this idea.

Media Appeal for Truth Telling

http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Media/Appeal_for_Truth_Telling

The Commercial Media Strikes again

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4203175210939792223&q=truth+in+media&total=5143&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
Video on covertage or the lack there of.

Satirical "News Outlets" Providing Better News?

http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4329
"One anchor, five correspondents, zero credibility. If you're tired of the stodginess of the evening newscasts, if you can't bear to sit through the spinmeisters and shills on the 24-hour cable news networks, don't miss The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, a nightly half-hour series unburdened by objectivity, journalistic integrity or even accuracy"
-Daily News Report

Sabotage on Wiki? Evil Diebold!

http://www.fairness.com/resources/category?node=289
title redone @ 2:57 pm

Calculated Falsehood?

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1004582

Libertarian Censorship?

http://www.aim.org/aim_report/A2231_0_4_0_C/

ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) censoring truth

Australian novelist Richard Flanagan was interviewed by ABC only to have his interview edited later in order cut out the parts which they deemed to be "too political"

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1115

Censorship and the Truth, or Lack There of

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1115

Down Playing of Corporate Controls, the Commercial Media

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/02/04/rupert-murdoch-admits-manipulating-the-mediasurprisesurprise/
http://themadotter.blogspot.com/2007/02/clear-proof-that-my-skepticism-is.html#links

These two links are about Rupert Murdoch admitting to manipulating the media!

Censorship at its FINEST

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20070030761&ch=10/26/2007+6:33:00+PM
"Modi,the chief minister of Gujrat,''sanctioned'' the 2002 riots in which more than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed.Modi went there personally and congratulated people who had killed others and this is what the killers themselves have confessed on camera.Suresh Richard: The cops must have killed 70 or more.Ramesh Dave: All the cops helped" -Source digg.com

Truth in Survey Research

http://youtube.com/watch?v=If9EWDB_zK4
"Ask questions that people care about the answers."
"Ask a question the way you get the right answer."
We are well aware of the bias that Penn and Teller bring to their show "Bull Shit," however, they did not make this stuff up. They are simply saying that polls are designed to get specific answers, and there are in fact right answers and wrong answers.

Ethical Issues in Journalism and the Media

Promoting ethical conduct in journalism and writing specifically about how journalism can “protect and promote truth, freedom and democracy,” is what authors Belsey and Chadwick endeavor to write about. Moreover, They cover multiple topics that are interdependent and show that the foundation of good journalism relies on the truth. “Journalism denies its own claim to truth when it forestalls rational arguments through strategies that undermine the legitimacy of relevant disputants” (128). These authors also tie in objectivity and bias in this chapter.

Target Audience

Our target audience will be college students who are interested in uncovering the truth in their own world, and any other person for that matter who is interested in knowing what’s really going on in their world. Another targeted audience will be any HCOM students more specifically anyone in our class. We find that this is the audience we are most interested in reaching because they have a vested interest in our topic, just as much as we do with their respective topics. This also something that we believe everyone in America should look into because a lot of people these days believe everything they see in the newspaper and hear in the news and this makes it easier for media outlets to get lazy when it comes to checking their facts.

Why a blog?

We’ll be creating a blog because we believe this will be the most effective way in reaching our audience. We believe this will be the best way to reach our audience because we will be presenting a topic which is dense with information and a blog would be the best way to present this. If we used a video blog or a podcast they would be too long and boring therefore our message would be lost because the readers would lose interest in the topic and wouldn’t hear/see all of the information. A blog allows a person to skim through themselves and they can at least look at all of the information and concentrate on what’s important to them. Not only are blogs easily accessible, they also in fact allow for participation between the reader and the writer. We also feel that since blogs are entirely transparent, we can show that we make mistakes and that we will correct them and at the same time allow our audience to see that we did make a mistake and that we did correct it.