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This page is fresh as of January 2007. But, depending on how the news stories have been archived, all their links might not be good.

"Media" here means print, web, and a couple of links for TV and radio. There are a few video and other links under webcasting.

Interestingly, business sources often provide more accurate and varied news and analysis than other mainstream outlets. Presumably, because real money is at stake, they're motivated to search out and report the real stories behind the widely disseminated government and corporate propaganda.

So, there are half a dozen sites listed on the investing page that might be of interest.

consolidation

1. commoncause.org is deeply involved with the issue of media consolidation
2. lasarletter.com: The Lazar Letter on the FCC. (Matthew Lasar currently teaches at UC Santa Cruz.)
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_media_ownership: Wikipedia offers an overview (unfortunately, not up to their usual standard)
4. freepress.net: Free Press works for media reform
5. msnbc.msn.com/id/14836500: Sept 14, 2006: "Media ownership study ordered destroyed: FCC draft suggested fewer owners would hurt local TV coverage," AP story archived at msnbc

1. mediachannel.org, "As The Media Watches the World, We Watch The Media," runs stories like "Silence Of The Lambs: The Election Story Never Told," by Greg Palast
2. sourcewatch.org, "a collaborative project of the Center for Media and Democracy...documenting the PR and propaganda activities of...professionals engaged in managing and manipulating public perception, opinion and policy...to include...media outlets, journalists and government agencies...."
3. They also publish prwatch.org, "...public relations spin and propaganda," and Congresspedia
4. ajr.org: the American Journalism Review, published by the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, with a very long list of Journalism Organizations
5. mediamatters.org: "progressive...center dedicated to...correcting conservative misinformation..."

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_agency
2. afp.com: Agence France Presse, in English
3. ap.org: Associated Press
4. reuters.com: Reuters
5. ipsnews.net: Inter Press Service - Global News Agency
6. alertnet.org: Reuter's Foundation AlertNet -- "Alerting humanitarians to emergencies"
7. businesswire.com
8. prnewswire.com: press releases
9. usnewswire.com: US press release newswire
10. allafrica.com is a superb aggregator from dozens of sources
11. findarticles.com: "gives you free access to millions of articles from thousands of top publications."
12. onlinenewspapers.com

American:
1. nytimes.com: The New York Times on the Web *
2. washingtonpost.com: The Washington Post *
3. latimes.com: the Los Angeles Times *
4. cnn.com: CNN Interactive and cnnexposed.com, CNN Exposed, "Exposing CNN's Western Bias"
5. pbs.org, PBS, and npr.org, NPR online
6. time.com: Time magazine
7. msnbc.msn.com/id/3032542/site/newsweek: Newsweek on msnbc
8. usnews.com: U.S. News and World Reports
   British:
9. economist.com: The Economist attempts to "take part in a contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress." In the process, it covers international news, politics, economics, business, science, and the arts, and does it with more wit and intelligence than the three immediately above. There's an article on the magazine on wikipedia.
10. news.bbc.co.uk: the BBC
11. The Economist publishes rollcall.com, Roll Call, "The Newspaper of Capitol Hill since 1955."
12. Through its Economist Intelligence Unit, ("Electronic services and publications") The Economist also publishes ViewsWire, which offers "Business intelligence on 201 countries...."
13. independent.co.uk: The Independent
14. ft.com: the Financial Times

1. harpers.org, Harper's Magazine, and newyorker.com, The New Yorker, are two mainstream magazines with clear independent views and first-class reporting. For example, look for Seymour Hersh in the The New Yorker.
2. theatlantic.com, The Atlantic Monthly
3. indymedia.org: Independent Media Center, the collective
4. prorev.com: Progressive Review, "Since 1964, Washington's Most Unofficial Source"
5. newstatesman.com: the British New Statesman is committed to "the aim of permeating the educated and influential classes with socialist ideas." Wikipedia has an article on the magazine.
6. rsf.org: Reporters Without Borders
7. muckraker.org: Center for Investigative Reporting
8. cooperativeresearch.org: Center for Cooperative Research
9. storiesthatmatter.org "administers the National Security News Service, Natural Resources News Service, and the Stories That Matter project."
10. foreignaffairs.org: Foreign Affairs
11. english.aljazeera.net: Al Jazeera, in English
12. fareedzakaria.com: Fareed Zakaria
13. middle-east-online.com/english: Middle East Online
14. idexer.com: Immigration News Daily
15. kevinsites.net: Kevin Sites Blog
16. catalog.loc.gov/...: Library of Congress Online Catalog
17. newslink.org/menu.html: from the AJR
18. crayon.net/using/links.html: a page of nothing but links to newspapers, magazines, funnies, op ed, et al.

1. salon.com: "Salon's savvy blend of old and new media strengths has made it an online journalism pacesetter." --American Journalism Review
2. mojones.com: Mother Jones
3. utne.com: The Utne Reader
4. alternet.org: AlterNet
5. buzzflash.com:BuzzFlash
6. truthout.org: TruthOut's issues are environment, labor, women, health, voter rights
7. dailykos.net: Daily Kos
8. tompaine.com: newsworthy
9. opensecrets.org: "Money in politics"
10. firstamendmentcenter.org: news
11. eff.org: Electronic Frontier Foundation
12. democracy21.org: "Democracy 21 provides the public and media with the latest information and analysis on money and politics"
13. prospect.org: American Prospect Online
14. huffingtonpost.com: The Huffington Post
15. realnightmare.org
16. projectcensored.org
17. billionairesforbush.com
18. whitehouse.org: this is not whitehouse.gov
19. counterpunch.org: CounterPunch, "America's best political newsletter," with Alexander Cockburn, among others
20. gregpalast.com: Greg Palast, economist, journalist, "war correspondent in the class conflict"
21. informationclearinghouse.info: "Information Clearing House provides a free news syndication service to other websites."

1. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Seattle Times, The Seattle Weekly, and The Stranger
2. eatthestate.org: Eat the State!
3. seattle.indymedia
4. nwprogressive.org : Political News From Around the Region
5. evergreenpolitics.com
6. realchangenews.org
7. KCTS tv schedule PDF download

1. pollingreport.com: all the polls on one site
2. ap-ipsosresults.com: AP-Ipsos polling
3. prwatch.org/node/4762: Center for Media and Democracy: Television Stations Respond... And It's Worse Than You Think
4. editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news...: Transcript of Stephen Colbert's WHCA Speech: You Be the Judge
5. boston.com/news/nation/washington...: The Boston Globe: Bush challenges hundreds of laws
6. sundaygazettemail.com/section/News...: Mine safety story