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The media on the media Despite unceasing complaints about neglect and about a lack of self-scrutiny, the media tend to cover themselves exhaustively -- if not necessarily well. Most national newspapers and newsmagazines have "media" sections or the eqivalent. Favored on this page are pages for current sites and publications; for archives go to the Search and Research page on this site. Here, a few symbols:   = available through C.U.L.'s e-reference collection r   = significant access for registration (free) $   = charge for some or all contents (or: you may need to subscribe to the print version to gain full access to the site) e   = You can subscribe to updates by e-mail.   = particular value and/or interest here

Media watch organizations Accuracy In Media (AIM) e     a conservative media watch group. Publishes/produces AIM Reports Media Monitor (a weekly radio program: transcripts here) columns and briefings Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) e     a progressive media watch group. It publishes/produces EXTRA!, a bimonthly journal of media criticism.   Media Views: links Counterspin (weekly radio program: heard locally on WICB (91.7 FM) Sundays at 7:00 and on WEOS (Generva: 89.7) Fridays at 6:30. selected articles at the website. Project Censored     Publishes the Censored 200x series; housed in the Sociology Department at Sonoma State University in CA. Some content here. Institute for Public Accuracy     links on war, the economy, and globalization conwebsatch     "Keeping an eye on the conservative internet media" Journals American Journalism Review     from Univ. of Maryland's School of Journalism Columbia Journalism Review       from . . . somewhere near Grant's Tomb Online Journalism Review     from USC Annenberg

Media news, headlines, and commentary mediachannel.org        media-related headlines, media news: 985 affiliates worldwide iwantmedia    e     lively, timely, with good archives MediaGardian.co.uk     also the Guardian's Net News section mediawhoresonline     relentless, not too inventive Cursor     particular focus on TV news Daily Howler     "Caveat lector." Caveat surfer. spiked! online     from the U.K. Trade pubs Publishers Weekly  r  $ Ownership (n addition to chapters from Bagdikian's Media Monopoly, Herman and Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent, and McChesney's Rich Media, Poor Democracy assigned in English 288) Mark Crispin Miller's "What's Wrong With This Picture?" The Nation, 7 January 2002. "The Big Ten," interactive page with Miller's article Needs Macromedia Flash. "Who Owns What," Columbia Journalism Review, Summer 2002.