COMT 425/525
Media Criticism
Assignment calendar (corrected 1/23/07 to reflect actual April dates)
Advertising Age's "Media Family Trees" chart
Recommended readings (especially helpful for grad students' presentations...)
Links to important media organizations
- The New York Times (home page)
- The New York Times (media & advertising section)
- The Washington Post's "Media Notes" column (by Howard Kurtz)
- CNN
- World Newspapers (links to media watchdog sites, media research sites, and media outlets)
Media "watchdog" sites operating from a progressive/liberal standpoint:
- Accuracy.org (Institute for Public Accuracy: media and public affairs)
- FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)
- ProjectCensored.org (overtly anti-corporate-media site focusing on news not covered by the so-called "MSM")
- Cursor.org (watchdog site AND links to just about every news outlet in the world)
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MediaLens.org (UK-based site self-described as "correcting for the distorted
vision of the corporate media")
Media "watchdog" sites operating from a conservative standpoint
- AIM.org (Accuracy in the Media)
- ParentsTV.org (run by Brent Bozell's Parents Television Council)
Media "watchdog" sites (purportedly) operating from a non-partisan standpoint
- CMPA.com (Center for Media and Public affairs)
- CJRdaily.org (Columbia Journalism Review's daily blog offering media criticism and news updates)
- FactCheck.org (not a media watchdog site per se; rather U.Penn-Annenberg Policy Center's non-partisan political BS-buster site)