Analysis
by Josh Silver
May 16 2008
Thursday night, the Senate cast a near-unanimous vote to reverse the Federal Communication Commission’s December 2007 decision to let media companies own both a major TV or radio station and a major daily newspaper in the same city.
by Various Authors
Apr 28 2008
Later this month, the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) will publicly determine the “authenticity” of laptops recovered from a rebel encampment in Ecuador after a March 1 raid on the camp by the Colombian military. Based on previous press coverage of the incursion and the documents, we are concerned that the media take extreme care in interpreting the Interpol findings.
by Leonard M. Baynes
Apr 4 2008
The 2008 election has made history with the racial and gender diversity of the Democratic Party’s presidential candidates: a white woman, Hillary Rodham Clinton; an African American man, Barack Obama; and a Latino man, Bill Richardson. From the beginning, the media have promoted a two-person contest between Clinton and Obama, virtually excluding all other candidates.
by Alejandro Reuss
Mar 27 2008
On February 25, Sen.
by Bret Gustafson
Mar 20 2008
If one reads the mainstream U.S. press to understand recent events in Bolivia, the following composite story emerges: Bolivia is a deeply divided and fractured country of profound cleavages, bitter fragmentation, and civil conflict. Most of this can be attributed to the country’s new president, Evo Morales, elected in late 2005. A member of the Aymara ethnic group and Bolivia’s first indigenous president, Morales is trying to give Indians a bigger role in government and a greater share of the economic pie.
by Aviva Chomsky
Mar 5 2008
Reflecting on Cuba’s Fidel Castro stepping down from power in February, U.S. newspapers relied on several worn-out themes and stereotypes that disparage Castro, gloss over U.S. aggression against Cuba, and idealize capitalism. News articles on Cuba often promote these themes and stereotypes through assumption, suggestion, and innuendo, blithely ignoring investigation, analysis, or evidence.
by Dan Beeton
Feb 27 2008
The Media Need More TLC in CAFTA Reporting
by Dan Beeton
by Justin Delacour
Feb 20 2008
After reluctantly agreeing to let Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez mediate between his administration and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, Colombian president Álvaro Uribe halted Chávez’s months-long effort in November, accusing him of violating protocol by directly contacting a Colombian military leader.
by Jesse Franzblau
Jan 25 2008
Readers of mainstream U.S. news coverage of Guatemala’s November 2007 presidential election, in which voters handed a comfortable victory to Álvaro Colom Caballeros over Otto Pérez Molina, received a distorted picture of the issues Guatemala faces today. Reports mostly misrepresented the country’s political dynamics and misled the public about the nature of the violence that led to the deaths of more than 50 candidates, activists, and their family members during the campaign season.
by Michael Cohen
Jan 10 2008
News coverage of the election of Senator Cristina Fernández de Kirchner as president of Argentina on October 28, 2007, was as lop-sided as the election itself. Fernández de Kirchner, popularly known as Cristina, won about 45% of the popular vote, with the second place candidate, Elisa Carrio, receiving only 22%, with other candidates receiving fewer votes. This is a winning margin according to Argentine law and does not require a runoff between the top two candidates.
