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Making the Myth,
Forgetting the Man
MediaChannel.org
When word of the passing of Ronald Reagan reached American newsrooms on Saturday, they went into overdrive as hagiography displaced journalism. Like the ancient Egyptians, our modern day media priests went to work building an electronic temple to replace the man with the myth.

Plug Pulled on Rome Radio
Stations Covering Bush Protests
MediaChannel.org
The outage -- described as "strange maintenance work" by Enel, Italy's 60 percent state-owned utility -- forced Radio Città Aperta and Radio Onda Rossa off the air as they were preparing to broadcast extensive coverage of street protests against President Bush's visit.


 MEDIA FOR DEMOCRACY 2004 
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Bush Campaign Could
Get a Reagan Bounce
The Hill
President Bush's re-election campaign will likely get a bounce from weeklong national coverage of President Reagan and his impact on conservative politics and world affairs, according to several political observers.

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 WAR & PEACE MONITOR 
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US and the Arab Media—
A Reversal of Fortunes
The Daily Star
"Coverage of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse story by Arab satellite television stations showed how far the regional media have come in terms of their professionalism. It also revealed the weakness of the US public information effort during the scandal," writes Badran A. Badran a professor of communication and media sciences at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates.

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 OWNERSHIP MONITOR 
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Berlusconi's Remote Control
TIME Europe
It's hard to miss the fact that Silvio Berlusconi owns three of Italy's seven biggest channels and has indirect control over three more, but sometimes the effects of that can be harder to spot.

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JOIN THE CAMPAIGN
Tired of skewed election coverage? Time to make your mark on the media. Sign up with Media For Democracy, a citizens' campaign to fix 2004 election coverage.   more...

NEWS DISSECTOR BLOG
What's really disgusting is not Ronald Reagan per se, but the way he is being lionized. The media is the problem, not the predictable exploitation of the late president's legacy. more...

MEDIA INTELLIGENCER
Provocative commentary, investigative reports and analysis from the MediaChannel news desk.  more...

FIGHT HATE RADIO
Ask for a public apology from radio shock jocks who use our public airwaves to spread hatred and ignorance.  more...

STATE OF THE MEDIA
This annual Project for Excellence in Journalism report reveals that journalism is "in the middle of an epochal transformation, as momentous probably as the invention of the telegraph or television."

CITIZENS MEDIA WATCH
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