On-line Articles and Reviews of
FEAR AND FAVOR IN THE NEWSROOM:

San Francisco Bay Guardian
Ron Curran
"An expose of corporate influence in the newsroom almost didn't get made because public TV feared offending sponsors."
www.sfbg.com/News/32/04/
Features/print.html

Seattle Times
"Modern-day media: not always a pretty picture"
by Kay McFadden television critic.
"Corporate bullying. Compromised ethics. Crushed careers. Are we talking right-wing conspiracy? White House to-do list? Nope. We're talking about your modern-day media operation, as glimpsed through the eyes of "Fear & Favor in the Newsroom..."
archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com

DISGRUNTLED
"Corporate Censorship of Media Guess Who Decides What's Fit To Print."
By Daniel S. Levine.
"Randy Baker and Beth Sanders appear to be victims of the very thing they have documented in..."

The Nation.
"Censorship That Dare Not Speak Its Name."
By Trudy Lieberman, The Nation, June 23, 1997
"This spring Fear and Favor in the Newsroom, a documentary about an insidious form of media..."

Indiewire.
"WNET To Air Controversial 'Newsroom' Documentary."
by Maud Kernsowski.
"Tomorrow night PBS's New York flagship station (WNET) will air a documentary which eighteen months ago only one public television station in the country would touch..."

Metro (San Jose)
"Press Corp."
By Michael Learmonth.
"This program was almost made impossible by lack of support from the following spineless, centrist, money-hungry organizations ..."
www.metroactive.com/papers/
metro/01.23.97/media-9704.html

Sensing censorship - CULTURE WATCH
by Jim Julian (11/5/97)
Expose corporate bias, risk limited exposure: That's the conundrum for a new television documentary.
www.metrotimes.com/news/stories/cul/
18/06/sensing.html

Top 10 Media Movies, MediaFile
by MiHi Ahn (3/24/99)
Top ten lists: MEDIAFile Advocacy Activism Classes Instructors Membership Services Alliance Resources and Links.
www.media-alliance.org/mediafile/17-5/movies.html

Barbwire
"Fear and Loathing in a Newsroom Near You"
"This is the story the corporate media won't report, which is why it is so important that 'Fear and Favor in the Newsroom' gets the airing it deserves" says Pulitzer Prize-winning former Wall Street Journal reporter Susan Faludi, author of the womens' rights bible, "Backlash."
www.nevadalabor.com/barbwire/barb98/barb2-15-98.html

Boston Phoenix
FEAR AND FAVOR IN THE NEWSROOM (1996).
Studs Terkel narrates this scathing indictment of the major print and broadcast media of our fair country, which fairly oozes with corruption, censorship, and corporate scandal.
www.phx.com/alt1/
archive/ movies/filmstrips/
FEAR_AND_FAVOR_IN_THE_NEWSROOM.html

Democracy Now!
Hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
Nov. 18, 1997.
Radio interview with journalists who appear in "Fear and Favor in the Newsroom" (Sydney Schanberg, Jon Alpert and Peter Graumann), filmmaker Randy Baker and audio-clips from the documentary. "The latest crisis between Iraq and the United States is once again a reminder that the first casualty in war is truth..."
www.webactive.com/webactive/
pacifica/demnow/dn971118.html

Center For Constitutional Rights
www.ccr-ny.org

Center for Economic Policy and Research
www.cepr.net

Food Not Bombs
www.foodnotbombs.net

The Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy
www.lcnp.org

Western States Legal Foundation
www.wslfweb.org

Chicago Media Watch
Publishes excellent quarterly. "Democracy requires open channels of communication. The purpose of Chicago Media Watch is to ensure that this region's media remain open and responsive to..."
www.chicagomediawatch.org/

Cultural Environment Movement
The Cultural Environment Movement is an international coalition of over 250 organizations and 6300 individuals united in working for gender equity and general diversity in mass media employment, ownership and representation. P.O. Box 31847 Philadelphia, PA 19104

FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
"FAIR is the national media watch group that offers well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship." Producers of weekly radio show CounterSpin.
130 W. 25th Street , New York, NY 10001
Tel: 212-633-6700 Fax: 212-727-7668
www.fair.org

Free Speech Internet Television
Host of our site. "Free Speech Internet Television system is the first audio/video hub on the web created and defined by its membership. Democratic media can and will change the cultural and political fabric of society for the better. That is our goal. We will accept no lesser outcome."
www.freespeech.org

Making Contact
A 29-minute public-affairs program fed on the NPR satellite. For further information, please call the National Radio Project at (510) 251-1332 or (650) 851-7256.
www.radioproject.org

Media Alliance
Media Alliance is a nonprofit organization which serves media professionals, nonprofit organizations and the general public in the San Francisco Bay Area. 814 Mission St., Suite 205 San Francisco, CA 94103 510-546-6216
www.media-alliance.org

PROJECT Censored
Publishes newsletter and annual report on the top 25 important stories that the mainstream media ignored. Project Censored, Sonoma State University Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Phone: 707 664 2500
E-Mail: project.censored@sonoma.edu
www.sonoma.edu/ProjectCensored/
default.html

WebActive
A weekly on-line publication designed to offer progressive activists an up-to-date resource on the World Wide Web to find other organizations and individuals with similar values and interests. Includes Pacifica Network News, RadioNation, Democracy NOW!, Hightower Radio, CounterSpin.
www.webactive.com

"We Interrupt This Message"
trains community-based organizations to generate positive press coverage and challenge unfair media images. 965 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94103, 415 537-9437, FAX 415 537-9439
interrupt@igc.org

Common Dreams
interrupt@igc.org

Counterpunch
www.counterpunch.org

Cursor.org
www.cursor.org

Democracy Now!
www.democracynow.org

Die Zeit
www.zeit.de

Die Tagezeitung
www.taz.de/pt/.nf/home

Flashpoints
www.flashpoints.net

Free Speech Radio News
www.fsrn.org

The Guardian
www.guardian.co.uk/guardian

In These Times
www.inthesetimes.com

Le Monde
www.lemonde.fr

Now, Bill Moyers program on PBS
www.pbs.org/now