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Risky Journalism: ABC's John Stossel bucks a fearful establishment
Source: Reason Online
Author: Jacob Sullum
Country: United States
E-mail: JSullum@reason.com

Sullum interviews ABC wunderkind John Stossel about his slow evolution from anti-business consumer reporter to pro-market, regulation-skeptical libertarian broadcasting star.

Distorted media coverage of youth and crime
Source: NCPA
Country: United States

The Justice Policy Institute finds that media coverage of crime understates the proportion of minorities who are victims, overstates youth participation in crime, and exaggerates the rate of crime. (05/29/01)

The 'myth' of media bias
Source: Enter Stage Right
Country: United States

"Journalists have to admit that their bias leads to slanted reporting. ... It is also time for people to stop demanding the mythical unbiased reporting that has never existed. An objective reporter is not one that takes no stand in covering a story, but one who in search of the truth reports what the truth really is." (1997)

TV as Ministry of Truth
Source: Civil Liberties
Author: J.D. Tuccille
Country: United States

The controversy over anti-drug messages on TV shows could only happen in a government-controlled medium. (2000)

Media wars: green scientist tactics
Source: Doctors for Disaster Preparedness Newsletter
Country: United States
E-mail: ddp@free-market.net

The folks at the Sound Science Initiative and the Union of Concerned Scientists (both very friendly to environmental scare tactics and statist solutions) offered a media training session for their members, in which they learned not to express doubts, always repeat the same global warming mantra, and be colorful.

New York Times hit over gun coverage
Source: APB News
Country: United States

Professor John Lott takes the newspaper of record to task for cooking the books on rampage shootings. The Times' editors respond. (2000)

Gun rights in the crosshairs
Source: FMN
Author: J.D. Tuccille
Country: United States

"Of all matters of public policy, the issue of private ownership of guns is one where many journalists don't even pretend to be objective. Mention firearms, the Second Amendment or, heaven forbid, the NRA, and flecks of rabid foam seem to seep from the newsprint." (1998)

Drudge not: the case for the i-hack
Source: andrewsullivan.com
Author: Andrew Sullivan
Country: United States
E-mail: andrew@andrewsullivan.com

"Anyone committed to open journalism -- a fallible, haphazard endeavor to find out more things and let more people know about them -- should be copying [Matt] Drudge, not scorning him."

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