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	PR Watch - Center for Media & Democracy URL: http://www.prwatch.org/ ODP description: Asserts that citizens today find themselves confronted by a bewildering array of hired propagandists paid to convince the public that junk food is nutritious, pollution is harmless, and what's good for big business and big government is good for everyone. Page title: Center for Media and Democracy - Publishers of PR Watch
	Take Back the Media URL: http://www.takebackthemedia.com/ ODP description: Includes a media ownership chart, how to get involved, and news. Page title: Take Back The Media
	Fear & Favor 2000 URL: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2013 ODP description: FAIR's first annual report on how the powerful shape the news. Page description: Introduction Surveys of working journalists have found that they experience pressure from powerful interests, outside and inside the news business, to push some stories and ignore others, and to shape or slant news co
	Free the Media URL: http://freethemedia.org/ ODP description: Includes a calendar of events, how to get involved, a forum, and a list of resources. Page title: Free The Media Free.The.Media! Free The Media
	Media Tycoon URL: http://www.chez.com/folder1/frameset.htm ODP description: RealVideo copy of an ABC pilot show made by Australia's John Safran that criticises the media and news reporting. Satirically styled, it includes 'tips' on how to get on the nightly news, how to get a music video on Rage and how to get a movie onto the video shelves. Page title: Martin's Space
	The Television Project URL: http://www.tvp.org/ ODP description: Helps parents understand how television affects their families and community and proposes alternatives that foster positive emotional, cognitive, and spiritual development within families and communities. Page title: Television Project Page description: The Television Project is an educational organization. We help parents understand how television affects their families and community. We propose alternatives that foster positive emotional, cognitive, and spiritual development within families and communities.
	Treasure State Review URL: http://www.nathanielblumberg.com/tsr.htm ODP description: Montana periodical devoted to journalism and justice that is published and edited by Nathaniel Blumberg of WoodFIREAshes Press. Page title: Treasure State Review -- A Montana Periodical Devoted to Journalism and Justice Page description: Treasure State Review is a Montana periodical devoted to journalism and justice that is published and edited in Big Fork, Montana by Nathaniel Blumberg of WoodFIREAshes Press.
	Noam Chomsky Archive URL: http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/ ODP description: Chomsky is one of America's most prominent political dissidents. A renowned professor of linguistics at MIT, he has authored over 30 political books, which repeatedly highlight the vital role of the mainstream media in implictly setting the parameters for debate, and "Manufacturing Consent" for actrocious policies. The searchable archive contains volumes of papers, and several complete books. Page title: ZNet's Chomsky Archive
	The Fox-BGH Cover-up Lawsuit URL: http://www.foxbghsuit.com/ ODP description: In a lawsuit, the journalists say they were ultimately fired at FOX-owned WTVT Channel 13 in Tampa for refusing orders to broadcast false and slanted stories about BGH (or rBST). The dairy hormone is banned in all of Europe and other countries because of human health concerns. Page title: foxBGHsuit Page description: Steve Wilson & Jane Akre vs Fox Television Stations attempts to coverup Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH) story.
	Is It News, Ad Or Infomercial? URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/bottom-line-decisions/is-it-news-ad-or-infomercial/ ODP description: Article by Doreen Carvajal discussing the ethics of TV infomercials and other media sources. Page title: Ethics cases online » Is it news, ad or infomercial? Page description: As newspapers and broadcast stations scramble for new sources of advertising dollars, are old ethical standards getting lost in the shuffle?