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I Want Media. Industry news and commentary. Often thought-provoking and always up-to-the-minute, if not ahead of the curve.
Media Bistro
A bit too business-oriented for our purposes, but their interviews, in their content area, can be surprisingly sharp and challenging.
Editor & Publisher's ABOUT page describes the magazine as "the authoritative journal covering all aspects of the North American newspaper industry, including business, newsroom, advertising, circulation, marketing, technology, online and syndicates." There's also some bracingly smart, pointed media criticism hiding in its pages.
The NYC-based media gossip blog Gawker, your "source for daily Manhattan media news and gossip...reporting live from the center of the universe." Gossip and snark-monkey commentary on the media-biz scene. Every media maven's guilty pleasure.
Romenesko's Media News is a must-read, the pulse of the media industry and a clearinghouse for buzz, lightning-rod debate, and the scandal du jour, handled with substance and style. Register (fast, free) and sign up for daily mailings.
Media Critics:
Eric Alterman, critically acclaimed author of What Liberal Media?, writes a passionately argued, solidly researched column of the same name for the left-wing Nation magazine. His "Altercation" column, for MSNBC.com, contains some media criticism, but often veers into flat-out political fulmination---fun stuff, but not part of our brief.
American Journalism Review. Mainstream media crit from within the journalism establishment.
Ken Auletta, media critic for The New Yorker, has an extensive archive of his writings on his website, which is fortunate, since the magazine's own online offerings are spotty, at best.
Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., critiques press coverage of the economy on "Beat the Press," a media-criticism blog for the liberal magazine The American Prospect.
Columbia Journalism Review. With furrowed brow, the media establishment (specifically, j-profs) engages in that rarest of acts: self-examination.
"The Daily Briefing," a round-up of mediacrit and media-biz items brought you to by the Project for Excellence in Journalism (see below).
The Daily Howler. Short, sharp shocks.
"Eat the Press" is The Huffington Post's answer to Gawker. Always snarky, sometimes smart, sometimes breathtakingly vacuous. Your mileage may vary.
ePluribus Media. Liberal/progressive group blog devoted the media, politics, and the cultural politics of the media.
FAIR associate, AlterNet contributor, and book author Norman Solomon's "Media Beat" column is essential reading.
"The Kicker," Columbia Journalism Review's mediacrit blog.
Washington Post writer Howard Kurtz's "Media Notes" column is quintessential inside-the-beltway, old-school media punditry. Some of his fellow pundits, such as Eric Alterman, sniff out a conservative bias. You be the judge.
The New York Observer covers the news business and takes a whack at media criticism, now and then. Check out the paper's mediacrit/media news blog, "Media Mob."
News Corpse. "News Corpse is dedicated to shining a light on the decaying body of the mainstream media. [...] The once-mighty 4th Estate has been consumed by a governmental-corporate complex whose interests are best served by a compliant media that obeys its masters. The only remaining hope for unbiased and diverse news is the independent media." Unapologetically in your face, this is the sort of media criticism Ken Auletta would write if he played lead guitar in a Norwegian Death Metal band.
Subscribe to WNYC radio's weekly newsletter for its superb program of media criticism, "OnThe Media," hosted by the always acute Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield. Missed the show's weekly broadcast? Catch it via the show's online archives.
"The Public Editor" is the ombudsman for The New York Times, critiquing the paper from inside the Belly of the Beast (to use a moth-eaten term from '60s radicalism).
PressThink, NYU professor and media pundit Jay Rosen's blog of press criticism.
Try to check out Jack Shafer's "Press Box" column, daily, at Slate.com. Savagely funny and brutally honest, Shafer is a libertarian pit bull, and it's a joy to watch him tear into the sacred cows of the Fourth Estate.
Sadly, the Village Voice just folded its long-running "Press Clips" column. Still, its archives are well worth a browse, especially Cynthia Cotts's thoughtful, evenhanded analyses of the press gang. Her knee jerks left, naturally, but what would else would youexpect from the Voice?
Check out the "Media Culture" section of AlterNet, an unabashedly lefty online wire service that aggregates content from indie publications. Easily 75% of AlterNet's offerings are crunchy-granola, save-the-harp-seals fare, calculated to gall anyone to the right of Janeane Garofolo. Even so, there's some sharp-witted media criticism in the "Media Matters" section, hiding among the kill-your-TV rants and the Buy Nothing Day exhortations.
Media Bias Police:
Accuracy In Media (AIM) is arguably the oldest and best-known of the conservative mediacrit sites that monitor what they believe to be liberal bias in the newsmedia. The site's ABOUT page now describes the organization, well-known for its conservative slant, as "a non-profit, grassroots citizens watchdog of the news media that critiques botched and bungled news stories and sets the record straight on important issues that have received slanted coverage." Accuracy in Advertising? You be the judge.
Media Matters (no relation to the AlterNet site section) describes itself as "a progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media." Founded by ex-neocon David "Blinded by the Right" Brock, the site monitors what it believes to be right-wing media bias---with a vengeance. Whether you agree with their angle of attack or not, you'll surely find some eye-opening stats and underplayed stories here.
Facts and Figures: Media Researchers:
By contrast, The Center for Media and Public Affairs eschews media criticism for media research, based on what it claims is a scrupulously scientific approach. CMPA describes itself as "a nonpartisan research and educational organization" that "conducts scientific studies of the news and entertainment media. [...] The Center's goal is to provide an empirical basis for ongoing debates over media fairness and impact through well-documented, timely, and readable studies of media content. [...] Our scientific approach sets us apart from self appointed media 'watchdog' groups, while our timeliness and outreach distinguishes us from traditional academic researchers." Others question this claim, noting that the lion's share of the Center's funding comes from conservative sources.
Launched in 1976, Project Censored is a media research group based at Sonoma State University that "compiles an annual list of 25 news stories of social significance that have been overlooked, underreported, or self-censored by the country's major national news media." Chastening reading. And inspiring: Any inspired investigative reporter has her work cut out for her.
The Project for Excellence in Journalism, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. From their mission statement: The PEJ is "a research organization that specializes in using empirical methods to evaluate and study the performance of the press. It is non partisan, non ideological and non political. Our goal is to help both the journalists who produce the news and the citizens who consume it develop a better understanding of what the press is delivering. The Project has put special emphasis on content analysis in the belief that quantifying what is occurring in the press, rather than merely offering criticism and analysis, is a better approach to understanding."
Regret the Error "reports on corrections, retractions, clarifications, and trends regarding accuracy and honesty in the media."
The Tyndall Report. Tracks nightly network news coverage, tallying the minutes the major networks devote to news topics. AJR writes, "As media critics bemoan journalism's deteriorating resources, substance and quality, admirers credit Tyndall's data-rich newsletter with informing the dialogue. Numbers, they say, don't lie. Tyndall, once the go-to guy for stats and figures, also is increasingly sought for analysis of industry trends and developments."
(NOTE: If you spot a media criticism site, blog, or listserv that is not listed here and that is devoted to reality-based media critiques (as opposed to faith-based critiques, "faith" being defined as any belief system that is founded not on how things are but on an ideological vision of How Things Ought to Be), bring it to MediaCrit's attention and we will consider adding it to these links if it's smart and substantive.)
I Want Media. Industry news and commentary. Often thought-provoking and always up-to-the-minute, if not ahead of the curve.
Media Bistro
A bit too business-oriented for our purposes, but their interviews, in their content area, can be surprisingly sharp and challenging.
Editor & Publisher's ABOUT page describes the magazine as "the authoritative journal covering all aspects of the North American newspaper industry, including business, newsroom, advertising, circulation, marketing, technology, online and syndicates." There's also some bracingly smart, pointed media criticism hiding in its pages.
The NYC-based media gossip blog Gawker, your "source for daily Manhattan media news and gossip...reporting live from the center of the universe." Gossip and snark-monkey commentary on the media-biz scene. Every media maven's guilty pleasure.
Romenesko's Media News is a must-read, the pulse of the media industry and a clearinghouse for buzz, lightning-rod debate, and the scandal du jour, handled with substance and style. Register (fast, free) and sign up for daily mailings.
Media Critics:
Eric Alterman, critically acclaimed author of What Liberal Media?, writes a passionately argued, solidly researched column of the same name for the left-wing Nation magazine. His "Altercation" column, for MSNBC.com, contains some media criticism, but often veers into flat-out political fulmination---fun stuff, but not part of our brief.
American Journalism Review. Mainstream media crit from within the journalism establishment.
Ken Auletta, media critic for The New Yorker, has an extensive archive of his writings on his website, which is fortunate, since the magazine's own online offerings are spotty, at best.
Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., critiques press coverage of the economy on "Beat the Press," a media-criticism blog for the liberal magazine The American Prospect.
Columbia Journalism Review. With furrowed brow, the media establishment (specifically, j-profs) engages in that rarest of acts: self-examination.
"The Daily Briefing," a round-up of mediacrit and media-biz items brought you to by the Project for Excellence in Journalism (see below).
The Daily Howler. Short, sharp shocks.
"Eat the Press" is The Huffington Post's answer to Gawker. Always snarky, sometimes smart, sometimes breathtakingly vacuous. Your mileage may vary.
ePluribus Media. Liberal/progressive group blog devoted the media, politics, and the cultural politics of the media.
FAIR associate, AlterNet contributor, and book author Norman Solomon's "Media Beat" column is essential reading.
"The Kicker," Columbia Journalism Review's mediacrit blog.
Washington Post writer Howard Kurtz's "Media Notes" column is quintessential inside-the-beltway, old-school media punditry. Some of his fellow pundits, such as Eric Alterman, sniff out a conservative bias. You be the judge.
The New York Observer covers the news business and takes a whack at media criticism, now and then. Check out the paper's mediacrit/media news blog, "Media Mob."
News Corpse. "News Corpse is dedicated to shining a light on the decaying body of the mainstream media. [...] The once-mighty 4th Estate has been consumed by a governmental-corporate complex whose interests are best served by a compliant media that obeys its masters. The only remaining hope for unbiased and diverse news is the independent media." Unapologetically in your face, this is the sort of media criticism Ken Auletta would write if he played lead guitar in a Norwegian Death Metal band.
Subscribe to WNYC radio's weekly newsletter for its superb program of media criticism, "OnThe Media," hosted by the always acute Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield. Missed the show's weekly broadcast? Catch it via the show's online archives.
"The Public Editor" is the ombudsman for The New York Times, critiquing the paper from inside the Belly of the Beast (to use a moth-eaten term from '60s radicalism).
PressThink, NYU professor and media pundit Jay Rosen's blog of press criticism.
Try to check out Jack Shafer's "Press Box" column, daily, at Slate.com. Savagely funny and brutally honest, Shafer is a libertarian pit bull, and it's a joy to watch him tear into the sacred cows of the Fourth Estate.
Sadly, the Village Voice just folded its long-running "Press Clips" column. Still, its archives are well worth a browse, especially Cynthia Cotts's thoughtful, evenhanded analyses of the press gang. Her knee jerks left, naturally, but what would else would youexpect from the Voice?
Check out the "Media Culture" section of AlterNet, an unabashedly lefty online wire service that aggregates content from indie publications. Easily 75% of AlterNet's offerings are crunchy-granola, save-the-harp-seals fare, calculated to gall anyone to the right of Janeane Garofolo. Even so, there's some sharp-witted media criticism in the "Media Matters" section, hiding among the kill-your-TV rants and the Buy Nothing Day exhortations.
Media Bias Police:
Accuracy In Media (AIM) is arguably the oldest and best-known of the conservative mediacrit sites that monitor what they believe to be liberal bias in the newsmedia. The site's ABOUT page now describes the organization, well-known for its conservative slant, as "a non-profit, grassroots citizens watchdog of the news media that critiques botched and bungled news stories and sets the record straight on important issues that have received slanted coverage." Accuracy in Advertising? You be the judge.
Media Matters (no relation to the AlterNet site section) describes itself as "a progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media." Founded by ex-neocon David "Blinded by the Right" Brock, the site monitors what it believes to be right-wing media bias---with a vengeance. Whether you agree with their angle of attack or not, you'll surely find some eye-opening stats and underplayed stories here.
Facts and Figures: Media Researchers:
By contrast, The Center for Media and Public Affairs eschews media criticism for media research, based on what it claims is a scrupulously scientific approach. CMPA describes itself as "a nonpartisan research and educational organization" that "conducts scientific studies of the news and entertainment media. [...] The Center's goal is to provide an empirical basis for ongoing debates over media fairness and impact through well-documented, timely, and readable studies of media content. [...] Our scientific approach sets us apart from self appointed media 'watchdog' groups, while our timeliness and outreach distinguishes us from traditional academic researchers." Others question this claim, noting that the lion's share of the Center's funding comes from conservative sources.
Launched in 1976, Project Censored is a media research group based at Sonoma State University that "compiles an annual list of 25 news stories of social significance that have been overlooked, underreported, or self-censored by the country's major national news media." Chastening reading. And inspiring: Any inspired investigative reporter has her work cut out for her.
The Project for Excellence in Journalism, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. From their mission statement: The PEJ is "a research organization that specializes in using empirical methods to evaluate and study the performance of the press. It is non partisan, non ideological and non political. Our goal is to help both the journalists who produce the news and the citizens who consume it develop a better understanding of what the press is delivering. The Project has put special emphasis on content analysis in the belief that quantifying what is occurring in the press, rather than merely offering criticism and analysis, is a better approach to understanding."
Regret the Error "reports on corrections, retractions, clarifications, and trends regarding accuracy and honesty in the media."
The Tyndall Report. Tracks nightly network news coverage, tallying the minutes the major networks devote to news topics. AJR writes, "As media critics bemoan journalism's deteriorating resources, substance and quality, admirers credit Tyndall's data-rich newsletter with informing the dialogue. Numbers, they say, don't lie. Tyndall, once the go-to guy for stats and figures, also is increasingly sought for analysis of industry trends and developments."
(NOTE: If you spot a media criticism site, blog, or listserv that is not listed here and that is devoted to reality-based media critiques (as opposed to faith-based critiques, "faith" being defined as any belief system that is founded not on how things are but on an ideological vision of How Things Ought to Be), bring it to MediaCrit's attention and we will consider adding it to these links if it's smart and substantive.)
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