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Murdock: Disgraced in UK, Still a King Maker in USA
News today that eight of Rupert Murdoch former editors and reporters have been charged with phone hacking crimes, coupled with Murdoch's recent resignation from directorship of several News Corp. companies that publish his British newspapers, marks the latest signs that the mogul's once-po...
JFK Warns Press About Secret Societies
Listen to this incredible audio recording of a speech made by JFK before the American Newspaper Publishers Association where he warns the press about the secret societies that are the real power in global affairs. "The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we ar...
Rep. Patrick Kennedy Rips Media
U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy was livid with rage speaking in Congress as he gave a withering assessment of news media coverage calling the national press corps 'despicable.' If anybody wants to know where cynicism is, cynicism is one, two press people in this gallery. We're talking about Er...
Video: New media and the G20 Summit
Video (11min 28sec): New media and the G20. A look at how new media came into its own at the G20 summit and the proliferation of web censorship in totalitarian regimes. The G20 summit was an example of how far social networks and bloggers have come in the news world. 50 bloggers from t...



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Video: How the Mainstream Media Actually Works
Commentary Video (7min 17sec): How the Mainstream Media Actually Works. "Now Barack Obama has 'the power'. So what do these guys do? ...
Video: Fox News Will Attack Obama for 4 Straight Years
Video (4min 2sec): Fox News Will Attack Obama for Four Straight Years. "Remember when they used to go back at Clinton? And everythin...
Video Commentary: Fox News Bias is Hilarious.
Video Commentary (1min 58sec): Fox News Bias is Hilarious. "Fox Reporter in a diner in Pennsylvania and he says he's gonna do a litt...
Video: Is Junk Media Making You Sick???
Video (2min 57sec): Is Junk Media Making You Sick??? It may be too late to save America from the clutches of the big media monsters, ...
Video: John Cusack on Media Reform at NCMR 2008
Video (1min 25sec): John Cusack on Media Reform at NCMR 2008. A message from John Cusack just before he addresses the National Confer...
The Media Age Of Celebrity Faux News
The Media Age Of Celebrity Faux News By James W Smith. It's all over the Internet. It's prominent on the cable news stations. It's be...
How Many False Statements Equal a Lie?
How Many False Statements Equal a Lie? Study: Bush, aides made 935 false statements in run-up to war. Story Highlights: *Study search...
Video: Gore Vidal on the Media
Video (7min 15sec): Gore Vidal on the Media - Have TV journalists learned anything from the last several years? Says Vidal: "Everybod...
Myth of the Liberal Media Video
Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demolish one of the central tenets of our political culture, the idea of the "liberal media." Instead,...
Advertising & the End of the World Video
Advertising & the End of the World video (5min 35sec) features an illustrated presentation by Sut Jhally of the University of Mas...