Media Analysis, Media Criticism, Censorship
SOURCES SELECT® Links and Resources

• Columbia Journalism Review
  
• FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) Internet site
  U.S. media watch group that documents and criticizes media bias and censorship, scrutinizes media practices that marginalize public interest, minority, and dissenting viewpoints, and advocates for greater diversity in the press.
• Media and Communications Study Site (MCS)
  A valuable British-based gateway to Web resources useful in the academic study of media and communication.
• Mediachannel.org
  Reports, opinions and links on media issues, including media news and links to hundreds of media issues organizations around the world.
• Medialens
  Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media.
  MediaLens is a response based on our conviction that mainstream newspapers and broadcasters provide a profoundly distorted picture of our world. We are convinced that the increasingly centralised, corporate nature of the media means that it acts as a de facto propaganda system for corporate and other establishment interests. The costs incurred as a result of this propaganda, in terms of human suffering and environmental degradation, are incalculable.
  In seeking to understand the basis and operation of this systematic distortion, we flatly reject all conspiracy theories and point instead to the inevitably corrupting effects of free market forces operating on and through media corporations seeking profit in a society dominated by corporate power.
• Sources Select Resources
  Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.

Related Links

• Banned Books Online
  A sampling of books which have been censored or subject to censorship attempts.
• Brill's Content
  Journalism review.
• Canadian Journal of Communication
  Publishes Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication and journalism studies.
• Censorship in Canada - When the Censor Comes
  Developed primarily for teachers, librarians, booksellers and others who disseminate the printed word, this guide offers basic information about dealing with would-be censors. Researched and written by Sandra Bernstein for the Freedom of Expression Committee of the Book and Periodical Council.
• Center for Democracy and Technology
  Addresses issues of Internet censorhip and privacy.
• Electronic Frontier Canada
  
• Index on Censorship
  One of the world's leading repositories of original, challenging, controversial and intelligent writing on free expression issues. Documents free expression abuses in scores of countries world wide.and reports on censorship issues from all over the world.
• Media Education Foundation WWW site
  Analyzing worldwide trends in media ownership, commercial content, and the media element of commercial globalization's encroachment on and redefinition of public space.
• Media History Project
  Promoting "the study of media history from petrogryphs to pixels"
• MediaNews
  Media-related news summaries.
• Palestine Media Watch
  PMWATCH was established to promote fair and accurate coverage of the Israeli occupation of Palestine in the US mainstream media. In broad terms, our mission is two-fold: (1) identify, report on, and protest clear journalistic failures by the US media in covering the conflict, and (2) help media outlets with access to pro-Palestinian points of view and voices for interviews, op-eds, or background discussions, whether here in the United States, in Israel, or in the Occupied Territories. Includes tools and suggestions for action on media bias.
• Privacy Commissioner of Canada
  The Privacy Commissioner of Canada is an Officer of Parliament mandated to protect and promote the privacy rights of Canadians.
• Todradio.com