This page sets out a variety of links to news media sources online, including radio, TV, documentary and news clips on radio and video, newspapers, magazines, and reference sources.
Text copied from the Net is in maroon; my text is in black. My highlighting of either is usually in red, or -- for hyperlinks -- in blue. Titles of URLs are verbatim, except that I delete initial redundancies, such as the useless and space-wasting fragment 'Welcome to', or their ilk.
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Links to news and information in all media
. . . For links to all media, especially music, go to Radio-TV sources, some of which also include news.
. . . For links to categories of music, go to Links, by type of music, some of which also include news.
. . . Categories of links to news and information in all media are as follows:
. . . . . . Advocacy ___ Clandestine radio ___ Covert radio ___ DX, Radio ___ DX, TV
. . . . . . General sources of music, some news ___ General sources of radio, TV, short-wave
. . . . . . General sources of news
. . . . . . Language translation ___ Links, by type of music (Music10) ___ Media players (Player10)
. . . . . . News bias in Canada (News12) ___ News headlines
. . . . . . Newspapers and magazines ___ News satire ___ News search engines
. . . . . . News watch and review ___ Number stations ___ Odd news
. . . . . . Pirate radio ___ Police & emergency broadcasts, live ___ Psyops ___ Satellite broadcasting
. . . . . . Search engines in general ___ Shortwave radio (ShortW10)
. . . . . . Spy- & weather-satellite images ___ Tech news
. . . . . . Web media
. . . . . . WINDROWS (Wayne's Ironic News: Deconstructing Reportage Others Would Shun)
. . . . . . World Radio Network on CBC Radio
ACLU American Civil Liberties Union: http://www.aclu.org/
Advocacy Groups: http://www.polisci.com/almanac/parties/advocacy.htm
Americans United for Separation of Church and State: http://www.au.org/ See also: . . .
. . . Americans United for Separation of Church and State: http://www.au.org/default.htm Home page.
. . . Church & State: http://www.au.org/churchstate/cs.htm Americans United for Separation of Church and State
Amnesty International - Death Penalty Bullettin: http://www.amnesty.it/~pdm/sept97.html Amnesty International Death Penalty Co-Group.
Amnesty International - working to protect human rights worldwide: http://www.amnesty.org/
Arab American Institute Online: http://www.aaiusa.org/
Brookings Institution Main Home Page: http://www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/
Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights: http://www.catholicleague.org/
Cato Institute Public Policy Analysis, Limited Government, Free Markets: http://www.cato.org/
Center For Auto Safety: http://www.autosafety.org/
Christian Action Network: http://www.christianaction.org/
Christian Coalition of America: http://www.cc.org/
ChristianityToday.com - Informing. Inspiring. Connecting. Equipping: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ The official Web site of Christianity Today International. Includes: . . .
. . . ChristianityToday.com - Christianity Today Magazine - Persecution: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ctmag/features/issues/persecution.html
Church & State: http://www.au.org/churchstate/cs.htm Americans United for Separation of Church and State
CCRKBA Home Page: http://www.ccrkba.org/ The
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and
Bear Arms.
This server contains valuable information regarding the Right to
Keep and Bear Arms including current and proposed legislation,
books regarding the second amendment, and hundreds of articles.
Coalition to Stop Gun Violence-Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence: http://www.gunfree.org/
Council for Secular Humanism: http://www.secularhumanism.org/ The Council for Secular Humanism is North America's leading organization for non-religious people. A not-for-profit educational association, the Council supports a wide range of activities to meet the needs of people who find meaning and value in life without looking to a god.
CQ - Canadian Quackery Watch - Protecting the public when the government fails to take action: http://www.healthwatcher.net/Quackerywatch/index.html Combating health fraud and magical thinking.
CSICOP On-line Scientifically Investigating Paranormal and Fringe Science Claims: http://www.csicop.org/
Electronic Frontier Canada: http://www.efc.ca/
EFF Blue Ribbon Campaign Home Page: http://www.eff.org/br/
EFF Homepage: http://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation. . . . But governments and corporate interests worldwide are trying to prevent us from communicating freely through new technologies, just as when those in positions of power controlled the production and distribution of -- or even burned -- books they did not want people to read in the Middle Ages. But only by fighting for our rights to speak freely whatever the medium -- whether books, telephones, or computers -- can we protect and enhance the human condition.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) was created to defend our rights to think, speak, and share our ideas, thoughts, and needs using new technologies, such as the Internet and the World Wide Web. EFF is the first to identify threats to our basic rights online and to advocate on behalf of free expression in the digital age.
Electronic Intifada: http://electronicintifada.net/ A Resource for Countering Myth, Distortion and Spin From the Israeli War Machine.
Electronic Privacy Information Center: http://www.epic.org/ "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." - Amendment IV, The United States Constitution (1791)
FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL February 16, 2002: http://www.frc.org/
Fraser Institute: http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/ As an independent public policy organization, The Fraser Institute focuses on the role competitive markets play in providing for the economic and social well-being of all Canadians.
Freedom of Expression Links: http://insight.mcmaster.ca/org/efc/pages/chronicle/censor.html Many Canadian & other links. Excellent.
Freedom Forum: http://www.freedomforum.org/
Free Inquiry: http://www.secularhumanism.org/fi/index.htm Free Inquiry, the magazine that celebrates reason and humanity, is published quarterly by the Council for Secular Humanism. Edited by philosopher Paul Kurtz, Free Inquiry presents scholarly and popular articles relating to secular humanism, atheism, church-state separation, and issues affecting the rights of religious minorities. See also Council for Secular Humanism above.
Friends of Tobacco: http://fujipub.com/fot/ Friends of Tobacco is a grass-roots organization dedicated to preserving an essential part of America's history and future. We believe that when any of our freedoms are taken away, all of our freedoms are at risk. Some people want that. Some people want to tell us that we can not enjoy ourselves after dinner, at work, in our cars, or in the privacy of our own home. If these people did not exist, we would not need to.
Frontlines in the Culture Wars News Media: http://www.frontpagemag.com/culturewars/news_media.htm The Center for the Study of Popular Culture is working to reclaim America, fighting fire with fire, confronting the Left on its own grounds.
Hemlock Society: http://www.hemlock.org/default.asp the nation's largest and oldest death-with-dignity association
C.D. Howe Institute: http://www.cdhowe.org/ Since its formation in 1973, the C.D. Howe Institute has earned a reputation as Canada's most respected independent, nonprofit, economic and social policy research institution.
Human Rights Watch - Defending Human Rights Worldwide: http://hrw.org/
Jew Watch - Organizations: http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-organizations-folder.html This site is included here, but with some misgivings, mainly to preserve a link to a copy of an important article by the ACLU entitled Church and State, which argues for their strict separation. Jew Watch interprets the action of the ACLU as being anti-Christian -- in my view, a very mistaken view amounting to unjust (and possibly anti-Semitic) prejudice by Christians.
Journalism and Mass Media Resources on the Web: http://www.washburn.edu/mabee/media.html Washburn University Library, Mabee Library, Kansas. Ironically, this site does not seem to identify what city this library is in! Not an encouraging sign of good journalism!
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA: http://ncccusa.org/
News and Updates: http://www.opendoorsusa.org/news.asp#MEXICO Open Doors with Brother Andrew. The growth of persecution worldwide is a signal for Christians to be on the alert.
NFPRHA: http://www.nfprha.org/ National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA). . . . Our members include private non-profit clinics; state, county and local health departments; Planned Parenthood Federation of America affiliates; family planning councils and hospital-based clinics, along with international family planning agencies.
National Rifle Association - MyNRA: http://www.nra.org/
No Gods: http://www.stargazer.org/nogods.html "Atheism
accepts the natural world as all there is. To live without god
beliefs is intellectually stimulating. To find one's own purpose
and be responsible for one's own life is exciting. To be free
from the imagined surveillance of good and evil spirits is
liberating. To seek a peaceful world through work and friendship
and civic action is life-affirming." --Marie
Alena Castle Many links, including the
following: . . .
. . . The Emptiness of Theology by Richard Dawkins: http://www.stargazer.org/emptiness.txt Published in Free Inquiry, Spring 1998.
A dismally unctuous editorial in the British newspaper the Independent recently asked for a reconciliation between science and "theology." It remarked that "People want to know as much as possible about their origins." I certainly hope they do, but what on earth makes one think that theology has anything useful to say on the subject? . . .
It is science and science alone that has given us this knowledge and given it, moreover., in fascinating, over-whelming, mutually confirming detail. On every one of these questions theology has held a view that has been conclusively proved wrong. . . .
What has theology ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has theology ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? I have listened to theologians, read them, debated against them. I have never heard any of them ever say anything of the smallest use, anything that was not either platitudinously obvious or downright false. . . .
If all the achievements of theologians were wiped out tomorrow, would anyone notice the smallest difference? Even the bad achievements of scientists, the bombs, and sonar-guided whaling vessels work! The achievements of theologians don't do anything, don't affect anything, don't mean anything. What makes anyone think that "theology" is a subject at all? . . .
. . . The Improbability of God by Richard Dawkins The following article is from Free Inquiry magazine, Vol. 18, No. 3.
Much of what people do is done in the name of God. Irishmen blow each other up in his name. Arabs blow themselves up in his name. Imams and ayatollahs oppress women in his name. Celibate popes and priests mess up people's sex lives in his name. Jewish shohets cut live animals' throats in his name. The achievements of religion in past history -- bloody crusades, torturing inquisitions, mass-murdering conquistadors, culture-destroying missionaries, legally enforced resistance to each new piece of scientific truth until the last possible moment -- are even more impressive. And what has it all been in aid of? I believe it is becoming increasingly clear that the answer is absolutely nothing at all. There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist and quite good reason for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke of cosmic proportions if it weren't so tragic.
Why do people believe in God? For most people the answer is still some version of the ancient Argument from Design. . . .
The Argument from Design, then, has been destroyed as a reason for believing in a God. Are there any other arguments? Some people believe in God because of what appears to them to be an inner revelation. Such revelations are not always edifying but they undoubtedly feel real to the individual concerned. Many inhabitants of lunatic asylums have an unshakable inner faith that they are Napoleon or, indeed, God himself. There is no doubting the power of such convictions for those that have them, but this is no reason for the rest of us to believe them. Indeed, since such beliefs are mutually contradictory, we can't believe them all. . . .
Open Directory - Society Issues Church-State Relations: http://dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Church-State_Relations/
People United for Religious Freedom: http://www.escape.ca/~dkost/index.htm This site is dedicated to combating television evangelists.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America: http://www.plannedparenthood.org/
Political Advocacy Groups Alphabetic List of all Groups: http://www.csuchico.edu/~kcfount/alpha.html Hundreds of groups! ACLU, Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights, Cato, Friends of Tobacco, SPLC, . . .
Privacy International: http://www.privacyinternational.org/ Privacy International (PI) is a human rights group formed in 1990 as a watchdog on surveillance by governments and corporations. PI is based in London, England, and has an office in Washington, D.C. PI has conducted campaigns throughout the world on issues ranging from wiretapping and national security activities, to ID cards, video surveillance, data matching, police information systems, and medical privacy.
Project Censored: http://www.projectcensored.org/default.html
Quackwatch Home Page: http://www.quackwatch.com/ Your Guide to Health Fraud, Quackery, and Intelligent Decisions. Operated by Stephen Barrett, M.D. Excellent!
Rational Radio: http://www.rationalradio.com/ Our purpose is to document the growing institutionalization of health fraud and its effects on individuals and society.
We believe that the alternatoid medicine mania is not a new paradigm, as industry propagandists claim, but a national psychosis.
It is a manifestation of larger New Age millennial madness, a tidal wave of irrationalism and magical thinking flooding the country. Some day we (or our descendants) will be dumbfounded at the foolishness of these times. . . .
Use some healthy skepticism to fight the increasing support by the public and governments of alternative medicine, spirituality, faith healing, New Age thinking, herbalists, homeopathists, naturopaths, touch therapy, and other forms of wishful thinking, superstition, and fraud. The $50 million being spent each year by the US government on alternative medicine has yielded no benefit -- not even a report pointing out the obvious deficiencies of alternative medicine. Canada continues to subsidize the ridiculous and superstitious practice of touch therapy -- as if our health system could afford it!
See also Quackery.
Secular Web - infidels.org: http://www.infidels.org/
SPLCENTER.ORG: http://www.splcenter.org/ The Southern Poverty Law Center began as a small civil rights law firm in 1971. Now it is internationally known for its tolerance education program, its legal victories against white supremacist groups, its tracking of hate groups and its sponsorship of the Civil Rights Memorial. Located in Montgomery, Alabama -- the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement --
TOMPAINE.com - A Public Interest Journal: http://www.tompaine.com/
TomPaine.com is a public interest journal inspired by the great patriot Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense and The Rights of Man. Paine was a man of humble origins and modest education, but he became a writer of extraordinary skill and passion. He used his talent to advance the cause of liberty and democracy against distant and unaccountable rulers.
TomPaine.com seeks to enrich the national debate on controversial public issues by featuring the ideas, opinions, and analyses too often overlooked by the mainstream media.
Union of Concerned Scientists: http://www.ucsusa.org/index.html
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: http://www.nccbuscc.org/
World Federalist Association - 1-800-WFA-0123 - United World Federalists: http://wfa.org/
Worldwatch Institute Home Page: http://www.worldwatch.org/
Zero Population Growth: http://www.zpg.org/
ABC Home: http://abc.abcnews.go.com/
APBnews.com Crime, Justice, Safety: http://www.apbonline.com/
AP Breaking News - from Tampa Bay Online: http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/index.htm
BBC - BBCi - the UK's number one digital destination: http://www.bbc.co.uk/
BEST NEWS SITES WORLD NEWS, NATIONAL NEWS, LOCAL NEWS, and NEWS UPDATES: http://www.startingpage.com/html/news.html
Broadcast Live - Radio and Television from Around the World: http://www.broadcast-live.com/ Wide selection. But no Argentina.
BRS Media BRS Radio-Directory: http://www.web-radio.com/ Over 10,000 stations listed with over 5,000 broadcasting online!
Canadian Resource Page: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/3378/www/canada.html
cbc.ca: http://www.cbc.ca/onair/ CBC On-air. ___ cbc.ca: http://www.cbc.ca/newsworld/ CBCNewsworld. News 24/7.
CBS.com: http://www.cbs.com/
Central Europe Online: http://www.europeaninternet.com/centraleurope/
CNN.com: http://www.cnn.com/
CPAC - Canada's Political Channel - La chaïne politique du Canada: http://www.cpac.ca/
C-SPAN Televised Legislatures Around the World: http://www.c-span.org/international/links.asp
C-SPAN.org: http://www.c-span.org
CTVNEWS.com: http://www.ctvnews.com/index.html News 24/7.
East European and Slavic News Media on the Internet: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/eenews.html This has many links and countries, including Czech Republic.
Facts and Reference Best Source for Facts on the Net - Refdesk.com: http://www.refdesk.com/ Vast resources of all kinds!
Google Directory - News Media: http://directory.google.com/Top/News/Media/
JournalismNet: http://www.journalismnet.com/. Contains a wide variety of reference sources of all types, including many search engines, links to newspapers, newswire services, radio and TV stations, and special resources for journalists. Contains 6,000 pages.
Kidon Media-Link: http://www.kidon.com/media-link/index.shtml Home of Kidon Media-Link. Every country has its own integrated page. There are no separate pages for newspapers, magazines, television, radio, and news agencies. Huge number of links!
Lycos News Home: http://news.lycos.com/
MEGASOURCES Surfing for Information and Journalis: http://www.ryerson.ca/~journal/megasources.html
MIT Media Laboratory: http://www.media.mit.edu/
National Media Archive - Home Page: http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/national_media_archive/ A Computerized Database of Canadian National Television News. The Fraser Institute was founded in 1974 to redirect public attention to the role markets can play in providing for the economic and social well-being of Canadians.
. . . Canada's leading economic think tank, with 2,500 individual, corporate and foundation supporters in Canada, the United States and twelve other countries.
NBC.com: http://www.nbc.com/ ___ MSNBC Cover: http://www.msnbc.com/news/default.asp
NewsDirectory Newspapers and Media: http://www.newsdirectory.com/ . . . links to over: 3,600 newspapers; 4,800 magazines; hundreds of TV stations; colleges, visitor bureaus, govt. agencies, travel links, and comics. 14,500 links.
news Insider: http://newsinsider.cjb.net/press_room.html Daily source for under-reported news and analysis. Here at the News Insider our aim is to bring back to the headlines those news stories and leads that are either under-reported, or even totally absent, from the mainstream news media. We strive to be the precision lense through which small print news gets magnified on a daily basis.
NewsLink: http://newslink.org/menu.html Newspapers, magazines, radio, TV, including Czech Republic newspapers.
NPR News: http://www.pbs.org/npr/ ___ PBS Online: http://www.pbs.org/
Open Directory - News: http://dmoz.org/News/ Very extensive range of all media worldwide, in many languages.
Paperboy.com Online Newspaper Directory: http://www.thepaperboy.com/welcome.html Newspapers and radio.
PBS Online: http://www.pbs.org/ ___ NPR News: http://www.pbs.org/npr/
Reuters The World's Leading Provider of Financial Information and News: http://www.reuters.com/
RTÉ Online Website of Ireland's National Broadcasting Organisation RTÉ: http://www.rte.ie/ Radio, TV, audio.
Ryerson School of Journalism - Related Links: http://www.ryerson.ca/journal/links/sites.html
United States House of Representatives - 107th Congress: http://www.house.gov/
World-Wide Web Resources - Broadcasting and Media: http://www.uky.edu/Subject/broadcasting.html U. of Kentucky.
Yahoo! - News: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/
Newspapers and magazines
Abyz News Links - Home - Newspapers and News Sources: http://www.abyznewslinks.com/
World News from AFP: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/world/afp.html Agence France-Presse
American Atheists: http://www.atheists.org/ American Atheists is a nationwide movement defending civil rights for nonbelievers and the separation of state and church. It also addresses issues pertinent to First Amendment public policy. Since 1963 AMERICAN ATHEISTS has been the premier organization laboring for the civil liberties of Atheists, and the total, absolute separation of government and religion. It was born out of a court case begun in 1959 by the Murray family which challenged prayer recitation in the public schools. That case -- Murray v. Curlett -- was a landmark in American jurisprudence on behalf of our First Amendment rights.
Atheist magazines, newsletters, and sites: see Atheism page.
Bad Religion - Violence: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/4619/religion/bad/violence.html
Bayarea.com - The Bay Area's Home Page: http://www.bayarea.com/mld/bayarea/ MERCURY NEWS / CONTRA COSTA TIMES / SILICONVALLEY.COM
Buenos Aires Herald On Line: http://www.buenosairesherald.com/
Brutal News: http://www.brutalnews.com/by_editor.html
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: http://www.policyalternatives.ca/
Christian Science Monitor Daily Online Newspaper: http://www.csmonitor.com/
CityPlug Canada's Alternative Media Source: http://www.cityplug.com/index.php CityPlug is your source for alternative media in Canada. We search the Web for intriguing, controversial, and thought provoking content. . . . We are looking for submissions from quirky, intelligent and outspoken people! If you have something to say - an opinion, rant, review, story -- we'd like to see it!
CounterPunch: http://www.counterpunch.org/
disinformation: http://www.disinfo.com/ . . . Launched on September 13, 1996, Disinformation was designed to be the search service of choice for individuals looking for information on current affairs, politics, new science and the 'hidden information,' that seldom seems to slip through the cracks of the corporate-owned media conglomerates. Ironically, it was funded by one of the largest media companies in the world (TeleCommunications, Inc. (TCI), now part of AT&T), who paid for placement on Netscape's then ubiquitous search page.
The site drew immediate attention and (usually) applause from the very same news media that it was criticizing as being under the influence of both government and big business, but the honeymoon was short. Some three weeks after launch the CEO of TCI learned of Disinformation and immediately ordered it closed down. Needless to say, site founder Richard Metzger and a few loyal members of his team managed to keep the site going and it has evolved into the largest and most popular alternative news and underground culture destination on the Web. . . .
DRUDGE REPORT 2002®: http://www.drudgereport.com/
EmergencyNet News; Daily News Summary: http://www.emergency.com/ennday.htm
globeandmail.com - Canada's best source for news continuously updated from The Globe and Mail: http://www.globeandmail.com/
Guardian Unlimited: http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Guardian Unlimited Observer: http://www.observer.co.uk/
Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/
International Herald Tribune: http://www.iht.com/frontpage.html
Irish Newspapers - Irish Independent Online: http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/
Nation: http://www.thenation.com/
National Post Online: http://www.nationalpost.com/
New Republic Online: http://www.thenewrepublic.com/ POPE PIUS XII, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, AND THE HOLOCAUST. What Would Jesus Have Done? Post date 01.16.02 | Issue date 01.21.02. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's cover story from the Jan. 21, 2002, issue of The New Republic, is not online.
NewsDirectory Newspapers and Media: http://www.newsdirectory.com/ . . . link to over: 3,600 newspapers; 4,800 magazines; hundreds of TV stations; colleges, visitor bureaus, govt. agencies, travel links, and comics. 14,500 links.
NewspaperLinks.com: http://www.newspaperlinks.com/home.cfm
New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/
New York Times on the Web: http://www.nytimes.com/?1016
Ottawa - canada.com network: http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ Ottawa Citizen and others.
Paperboy.com Online Newspaper Directory: http://www.thepaperboy.com/welcome.html
Reuters Breaking News from Around the Globe: http://www.reuters.com/additionalarticleshome.jhtml?type=topnews&page=firstpage&count=25
Slate Magazine - Table of Contents: http://slate.msn.com/
Smoking Gun: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/
Straight Dope Front Page: http://www.straightdope.com/index.html Fighting ignorance since 1973. (It's taking longer than we thought.) . . . Hello and welcome to the official Internet home of Cecil Adams, World's Smartest Human Being, and his famous syndicated column The Straight Dope.
Straight Goods - Canada's independent, reader supported on-line source of news: http://www.straightgoods.com/
The Times: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/ The Sunday Times.
The Times: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/ The Times.
United Press International Current News from the International Desk: http://www.upi.com/deskview.cfm?DeskCode=international
United Press International Current News from the National Desk: http://www.upi.com/deskview.cfm?DeskCode=regional
USATODAY.com News & Information Homepage: http://www.usatoday.com/
US and International Newspapers on line: http://www.mountain-breeze.com/new spapers/index.html
washingtonpost.com - News Front: http://www.washingtonpost.com/
WSJ.com - News: http://online.wsj.com/public/us Wall Street Journal.
www.telegraph.co.uk: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ telegraph.co.uk Telegraph Group Limited. This entity might be related to a newspaper called The Telegraph, but that is only my guess. This site exemplifies one example of poor site design in its odd use of words and its failure to provide its identity.
See also Links (Satire page).
See also WINDROWS (Wayne's Ironic News: Deconstructing Reportage Others Would Shun)
disinformation: http://www.disinfo.com/
Doug Anderson's Web Parody page: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Alley/7028/farce.htm. Includes a review of the HastaLaVista search engine.
Fade to Black Comedy Magazine: http://www.fadetoblack.com/. "Whether it's asking death-row inmates to rate TV or finding out whether toothpaste is Y2K-compliant, Fade to Black doesn't seem to miss an unconventional comedic beat." USA Today
FEEDMagazine: http://www.feedmag.com/index.html.
F O R T E A N T I M E S : http://www.forteantimes.com/
FORTOGDEN HomePage: http://www.fortogden.com/index.html Still clicking our way through the Vast Wasteland, including Steven Wright's famous lines.
Frumious Bandersnatch Satirical Newspaper & Parodies: http://bandersnatch.com/
furiosity.com wielding righteous indignation like the hammer of judgment, baby -- a site for satire, editorials, humor, movie: http://furiosity.com/ And now, a nice, slickly yawping e-zine haven of farcical and satirical attitude with a great name: Furiosity.com. The dorky potpourri of rants, raves, reviews, messages, letters, and links comes from "a select group of self-professed intellectual elites from Canada." Irreverence is everywhere - if sometimes imitative - as in the "Dale Earnhardt Still Dead" piece posted four days after the NASCAR racer's deadly crash in February, or the "Free Crap For You, Free Cash For Me" promotions. Some items have an Onion-like tongue-in-cheek quality, such as "California Power Crisis Finally Explained, Texas to Blame" and "Cheney Hauled to the Hospital Again, Bush Temporarily Left in Charge". If no current story grabs your fancy, some "Older Features" listed at the bottom of the home page may. (To wit: "Scientists Bet $500M On Whether Humans Can Linger Uselessly Until 150 Years Old.") Cheek here may offend some conservatives and give some liberals pause. Blame Canada. Or youth. Or both.
HotAIR: http://www.improbable.com/ The Annals of Improbable Research.
JOURNAL OF IRREPRODUCIBLE RESULTS: http://www.jir.com/. "I recommend a regular dose of the Journal of Irreproducible Results, the funniest magazine I know." - Toronto Globe And Mail. "The Journal of Irreproducible Results is our favorite magazine." - New Scientist.
Ken Umbach's Award-Winning Home Page: http://members.unlimited.net/~kumbach/ , including:
. . . California's Velcro Crop under Challenge: http://members.unlimited.net/~kumbach/velcro.html
Ladies Against Women Global Headquarters: http://www.well.com/user/gail/ladies/
Muckraker: http://radio.cbc.ca/programs/muckraker/
NEWS SATIRICAL DAILY NEWSPAPERS AND PARODY: http://www.startingpage.com/html/news_satirical_newspapers_parody.html
Onion: http://www.theonion.com/ America's Finest News Source
pickover.com Clifford Pickover home page.
Religious satire. http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/atheism/humour_index.htm From the site Wasteland Of Wonders Atheism and Atheist Dept.: http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/atheism/index.html (Added 27 Dec 00.)
Royal Prune University: http://www.rpu.com/.
SatireWire: http://www.satirewire.com/index.shtml. New satire for the new economy. SatireWire is intended for use by those age 18 and older.
Science Humor Webring: http://nav.webring.yahoo.com/hub?ring=sciencehumor&page=1&list
Urban Legends Reference Pages Tales of the Wooden Spoon: http://128.242.205.65/spoons/spoons.htm
News search engines and News headlines
See also Search, for search-utilities in general. Some of the following sites provide not only search services, but headlines and links.
Google News: http://news.google.com/ News headlines and links, automatically compiled and updated, from 4,000 sources. Excellent!
Moreover Business Intelligence & Dynamic Content: http://w.moreover.com/
News Index Delivered - News Monitoring and Clipping service: http://www.newsindex.com/ News source, search engine, and gateway to news sites. Search The Current News Now! (Over 50,000 current articles)
NewsSeer news and current events; latest breaking news: http://newsseer.com/ Headlines and links. This site adapts to user preference, partly by user rating, and partly by other monitoring (of reading time, e.g.). Excellent!
World Wide Web Research Tools: http://www.virtualsalt.com/search.htm
See also WINDROWS (Wayne's Ironic News: Deconstructing Reportage Others Would Shun)
ACCURACY IN MEDIA - For Fairness, Balance and Accuracy in News Reporting: http://www.aim.org/
American Spectator Home: http://www.gilder.com/amspec/index.html
BOURQUE NEWSWATCH - TOMORROW'S NEWS NOW: http://www.bourque.org/
Canada News Review: http://www.canadanewsreview.com/
DRUDGE REPORT 2002®: http://www.drudgereport.com/ Great reports and many links.
eye: http://www.eye.net/ Events, links, etc. Based in Toronto.
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting The National Media Watch Group: http://www.fair.org/
FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. We work to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. As an anti-censorship organization, we expose neglected news stories and defend working journalists when they are muzzled. As a progressive group, FAIR believes that structural reform is ultimately needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting and promote strong non-profit sources of information.
FAIR MEDIA ADVISORY Pentagon Propaganda Plan (OSI) Is Undemocratic, Possibly Illegal: http://www.fair.org/activism/osi-propaganda.html Feb 19, 2002.
The New York Times reported today that the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Influence is “developing plans to provide news items, possibly even false ones, to foreign media organizations” in an effort “to influence public sentiment and policy makers in both friendly and unfriendly countries.”
The OSI was created shortly after September 11 to publicize the U.S. government’s perspective in Islamic countries and to generate support for the U.S.’s “war on terror.” This latest announcement raises grave concerns that far from being an honest effort to explain U.S. policy, the OSI may be a profoundly undemocratic program devoted to spreading disinformation and misleading the public, both at home and abroad. At the same time, involving reporters in Pentagon disinformation puts the lives of working journalists at risk.
Despite the OSI’s multi-million-dollar budget and its mandate to propagandize throughout the Middle East, Asia and Western Europe, “even many senior Pentagon officials and Congressional military aides say they know almost nothing about its purpose and plans,” . . .
Gilder Publishing, LLC: http://www.spectator.org/
HonestReporting.com - Fighting Media Bias: http://www.honestreporting.com/ HonestReporting is a fast-action website dedicated to ensuring that Israel receives fair media coverage. We scrutinize the media for anti-Israel bias, and then mobilize subscribers to complain directly to the news agency concerned.
HonestReporting is sponsored by Media Watch International. Our e-mail list has over 25,000 members worldwide . . .
http: http://www.newsmakingnews.com/newsgrids9,01.htm Previously named NewsGrids?
Index on Censorship Latest News: http://www.indexonline.org/
Journalist's Toolbox Media Columnists: http://www.geocities.com/mike_reilley_2000/newswriting/columnists.html Online Resources for Reporters and Editors. Columnists links.
Liberal Media: http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/lm.htm The original intent of this page was to provide links pointing out the simple fact that the news media in the United States is very conservatively biased. . . .
Media Watchers and Activists: http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/media/mediawatch.html
NewsWatch A Consumer's Guide to the News: http://www.newswatch.org/ Media watchdog organization. The Quintessential News Site. Many excellent links.
NewsWatch Canada: http://newswatch.cprost.sfu.ca/ NewsWatch Canada undertakes independent research on the diversity and thoroughness of news coverage in Canada's media, with a focus on identifying blindspots and double-standards. For the first three years as PCC, we compiled the Top Ten list of under-reported stories (stories that were considered significant but under-reported by the national news media). It began as a collaborative project of the communication departments at Simon Fraser University and the University of Windsor and the Canadian Association of Journalists.
Normalizing Israeli Repression: http://www.zmag.org/zmag/articles/june94herman.htm Normalizing Israeli Repression by Edward S. Herman.
In her book Beyond Belief, Deborah Lipstadt showed how in the years of the holocaust the mass murder of Jews in Nazi death camps was treated in muted fashion in the mainstream U.S. media (including the New York Times and Washington Post); reports about these mass killings were treated episodically, on the back pages, and did not provide the basis for major investigative efforts or sustained and indignant editorializing demanding action. These were "unworthy" victims.
In one of the great ironies of modern history, the Jews have belatedly become worthy victims and their own victims have replaced them as unworthy. As in the case of the holocaust itself, the categorization -- which reflects power and powerlessness -- provides the intellectual and moral basis for horrendous actions.
Key elements in normalizing the mistreatment of unworthy victims are eye aversion, low-key reporting where complete silence is not possible, and the absence of indignation. It would not be easy to find any discussions in the U.S. mass media of Israel's legally mandated discrimination against non-Jews in land and home ownership and rental, and state confiscations and purchases for the exclusive use of Jews, although such discrimination violates Western values and would elicit outcries if done against Jews. In the occupied territories, officially authorized beatings, large scale administrative detentions, the destruction of thousands of homes and numerous orchards, and systematic torture, have been almost entirely ignored. (The only scheduled program on Israel on PBS's main station in Philadelphia this spring has been "Israel: A Nation Is Born, with Abba Eban," the host representing the only acceptable form of bias on this subject.)
The more than one thousand killings of intifada protesters have been reported in very low key, on the back pages, as impersonal happenings like traffic death numbers. The coverage has been kept at a level--both quantitatively and qualitatively -- that would not arouse public opinion or interfere with the Israeli policy of subduing the uprising by unrelenting low level state terror. The violations of UN resolutions and international law on occupation policies have been almost entirely ignored, by the same media that were so alert to Sadaam Hussein's failures to respond to UN resolutions and misbehavior in an occupied country. . . .
It has been standard practice in the West to designate insurgents and victims of western power terrorists and western state oppressors defenders against terror. The murderous governments of El Salvador and Guatemala were granted U.S. aid in 1983 under an "Anti-Terror Assistance Act," and in 1988 the Pentagon listed the African National Congress (ANC) as one of the world's "more notorious terrorist groups." . . .
Another feature of the racist double standard of the West is the constant reference to Israeli "security" and the comprehensive disregard of Palestinian security. Just as U.S. "national security" was threatened by Arbenz and land reform in Guatemala in 1954 and by the Sandinistas in the 1980s, so Israeli security is always threatened by the Palestinians and Arabs, despite the disproportion in power favoring Israel. Bill Clinton has reassured Israel that he will not ask for any cuts in U.S. military appropriations because of its "security concerns." No security concerns for Palestinians have been recognized by Clinton, or by any other mainstream politician or pundit. The irony is that the Palestinians have real security problems, as they are subject to harsh military rule by a government that considers them inferior creatures and has a barely concealed interest in displacing them and seizing their property. Power also produces gullibility: the possibility that the alleged threat to Israeli security, like their unwillingness to deal with "terrorists," is a fraudulent cover for a 50-year long effort to crush the Palestinians and absorb their lands, is never suggested in western mainstream news and commentary. . . .
Because Israel is powerful and has virtually uncontested support in the U.S. mainstream media, numerous protective devices are brought to bear when the cover on the normalized terror is momentarily blown. When several dozen Arab worshipers in Hebron were massacred by a settler in February, it was not possible to hide the fact that although the settlers were heavily armed and Palestinians lacked arms, the Israeli army was still allowed to fire only at Palestinians. . . .
Myth Structures
Apologists for Israel regularly rely on a structure of myths that justify ongoing policy, which are rarely contested in the mainstream media. One is that the exit of Palestinians in 1948 was voluntary, based on appeals by Arab leaders, rather than on fear, threats and violence. As 374 Arab villages were destroyed with "ruthless efficiency" (Flapan), the property of the 700,000 or more refugees expropriated, and the dispossessed never compensated or allowed to return, the myth is important in making the Israeli cause just. . . .
Alleged Media Bias Against Israel
It is an uncontestable fact that Israel -- a U.S. ally that receives huge and steadfast U.S. economic, military and diplomatic support, with a potent lobby serving its interests, and which has the Democratic Party groveling to express its devotion -- gets staggeringly biased positive treatment in the U.S. media. The bias is so profound that news anchors and pundits openly display their fealty to Israel without the slightest qualm. Thus, Dan Rather, CBS New anchor, and Fouad Ajami, a CBS News consultant, attended an Israeli fund-raiser on June 3, 1992, where keynoter Henry Kissinger stated that "you can't really believe anything an Arab says," and Ajami asserted that democracy was unworkable in Arab countries and described a visit to a Bedouin village where he "insisted on only one thing: that I be spared the ceremony of eating with a Bedouin." Rather, introduced by the racist fanatic Martin Peretz as "my favorite newsman," made some extremely biased and ignorant remarks at the gathering on his own (see Sam Husseini, EXTRA!, Oct.-Nov. 1992); and although his participation in this partisan affair was contrary to CBS rules, he suffered no penalties at CBS or criticism outside of the alternative media. . . .
ISRAEL: http://www.zmag.org/meastwatch/israeleth3.htm
ISRAEL'S APPROVED ETHNIC
CLEANSING
PART 3, HOW THE U.S. MEDIA PROTECTS IT
Edward S. Herman
The U.S. mainstream media have followed closely their government's agenda of giving Israel carte blanche in dealing with their Palestinian subjects, both within Israel and in the occupied territories. This has involved a major intellectual and moral challenge, given the facts of serious racist discrimination, the long Israeli refusal to exit the occupied territories as demanded by an overwhelming international consensus, Israel's daily violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention requirements on treatment of people in occupied territories -- including a massive ethnic cleansing openly designed to benefit the "chosen people" -- and their clear intention to create a Palestinian system of dependent and poor bantustans in the occupied territories, organized strictly for the advantage of the ethnic cleansing state.
This brutal, racist and illegal ethnic cleansing program has taken place in an era when the United States and its allies have proclaimed a new moral order in which defenceless people will be protected by the Great Powers, as allegedly happened in Kosovo. The challenge of rationalizing the Israeli ethnic cleansing in this ideological context has been severe, but it has been met by the U.S. media with remarkable success. Identifying completely with the Israelis, the media have transformed them into the primary victims and treated the populace really victimized as "unpeople" whose pain does not count and who do not require "security" like the victimizers. And by a comprehensive system of biased word usage, framing, eye aversion, and rewriting of history, they have demonstrated once again that in its service to the state the Free Press can teach a lesson to any state-run propaganda system. . . .
8. Conclusions: The Media's Supportive Role in Ethnic Cleansing; Where Will It End In Making a "Safe" Israel?
Robert Fisk notes that "Oddly, you can now learn more from the Israeli press than the American media. The brutality of Israeli soldiers is fully covered in Ha'aretz, which also reports on the large number of U.S. negotiators who are Jewish. Four years ago, a former Israeli soldier described in an Israeli newspaper how his men had looted a village in southern Lebanon; when the piece was reprinted in the New York Times, the looting episode was censored out of the text" (Independent, Dec. 13, 2000).
The U.S. mainstream media's coverage of Middle East issues shows a genuine propaganda system in action. As I have shown, the media have done a truly outstanding job of supporting state policy by making Israel's ethnic cleansing palatable, finding the victims the source of the violence, and thus facilitating virtually any level of wholesale violence Israel deems necessary to protect itself against "terrorism." As its ethnic cleansing policies inevitably produce secondary reactions to the primary (Israeli) violence, the media therefore contribute to an escalating process with no decent end in sight. . . .
Project Censored: http://www.projectcensored.org/
PR Watch Archives: http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/index.html Excellent.
2001 Media
'Dishonors Awards' Winners - Crosswalk.com News Channel: http://news.crosswalk.com/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID74088%7CCHID194343%7CCIID1116202,00.html By
the Media Research Center Information
Services
www.CNSNews.com - (Editor's Note: The following are the winners
of the 2001 'Dishonors Awards,' presented by the Media
Research Center, the parent organization of
CNSNews.com.)
The Gilligan Award (For
Flakiest Comment of the Year) Winner - CBS News anchor Dan Rather on The O'Reilly Factor, May 15, 2001
Bill O'Reilly: "I want to ask you flat out, do you think President Clinton's an
honest man?"
Dan Rather: "Yes, I think he's an honest man."
O'Reilly: "Do you, really?"
Rather: "I do."
O'Reilly: "Even though
he lied to Jim Lehrer's face about the Lewinsky case?"
Rather: "Who among us
has not lied about something?" . . .
Dan Rather: http://danrather.newstrove.com/ All the current news about Dan Rather
Slipup.com Newspaper Corrections Connection: http://www.slipup.com/
Smarter Times: http://www.smartertimes.com/ This is a very picky critic of the New York Times.
Suck Daily: http://www.suck.com/
United States of America - Watchdog: http://www.politicalresources.net/usa5_6.htm
Women Against Fundamentalisms: http://www.gn.apc.org/waf/journal6p53.htm
ZNet: http://www.zmag.org/ Very extensive range of topics and resources.
See also WINDROWS (Wayne's Ironic News: Deconstructing Reportage Others Would Shun)
Darwin Awards: http://www.darwinawards.com/ Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it in really stupid ways. See also . . .
. . . Official Darwin Awards: http://excite.co.za/entertainment/humor/political_humor/jokes_and_satire/. Named in honor of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it.
Lycos News Odd News: http://news.lycos.com/news/headlines.asp?section=OddNews
NewsBop.com - Odd news, strange news and downright bizarre news from around the world: http://newsbop.triqi.com/
NEWS of the WEIRD: http://www.newsoftheweird.com/
Yahoo! News - Oddly Enough - Reuters: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index&cid=573&/
Slashdot News for nerds, stuff that matters: http://slashdot.org/
Tech News - CNET.com: http://www.news.com/
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