News-related
Links
Some news
sites on the web:
- Aljazeera in English: http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage
- Google News: http://news.google.com/
- BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/
- Independent Media Center: www.indymedia.org
- Citizen video journalism for young folks: http://www.current.tv
- Independent World Television News: http://www.iwtnews.com/ ("No advertising. No government funding. No corporate dollars. No profit. No strings.")
- News Trust citizen news site: www.newstrust.net or http://beta.newstrust.net/
- http://watchingamerica.com/
- http://www.newassignment.net/
- http://www.daylife.com/
- Burlington's own environmental web video channel (with some videos by UVM students): http://www.earthengine.net
Websites and blogs about the news:
- MSNBC anchor Mika Brzezinski gets fed up with infotainment while on air: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgnmRx_Htis
- http://www.journalism.org/ "The Project for Excellence in Journalism: Understanding News in the Information Age."
- "On the Media," a very informative weekly public radio show that looks behind the scenes at the media. Downloadable, and also available as a podcast via iTunes. http://www.onthemedia.org/
- http://www.regrettheerror.com/ is a website devoted to press errors, both serious and comic.
- "The Echo Chamber Project is an open source, investigative documentary about how the television news media became an uncritical echo chamber to the Executive Branch leading up to the war in Iraq." http://www.echochamberproject.com/
- Newsbusters, a conservative website dedicated to "exposing and combating liberal media bias": http://newsbusters.org/
- Prof. Jay Rosen's "Press Think: the Ghost of Democracy in the Media Machine" http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/
- http://www.buzzmachine.com/
- http://www.instapundit.com/
- Lance Bennett's website: http://depts.washington.edu/~bennett/
Examples of good (or at least different) journalism in unusual places:
- Peter Maas, "The Race to Bagdhad" originally in Outside Magazine July 2003 (an unembedded reporter's account of the difficulties of covering the war) http://www.petermaass.com/core.cfm?p=1&mag=110&magtype=1 (See more of his articles and other information about him at http://www.petermaass.com
- "Five Mayoral Candidates Square Off" Burlington Free Press Feb. 14 2006
- Peter Maas, "Good Kills," Sunday New York Times Magazine, April 20, 2003
Interesting articles:
- Former Dateline correspondent John Hockenberry on why TV network news is so trivial: http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19845/page1/
- Michael Schudson, "Autonomy From What?" in Rodney Benson and Erik Neveu, eds., Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005) http://communication.ucsd.edu/people/SCHUDSON/bourdieu.pdf
- "Current Administration Seems to Relish Media's Anger" by Steven Thomma, February 17, 2006: "Part of the White House strategy is essentially cultural, that resentment against the press is itself converted into a political asset." (Knight-Ridder) http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0217-09.htm
- "Bye-Bye, BBC: Questions for David Frost," Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Sunday NYT, February 12, 2006.
- "20 Questions A Journalist Should Ask About Poll Results" http://www.ncpp.org/qajsa.htm