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ness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)

Dan Balz, the Washington Post's chief correspondent ( 5/20/12 ), complains that President Barack Obama hasn't solved America's fiscal problems: Obama has drawn criticism for failing to offer more forceful leadership. He established the Simpson-Bowles commission but declined opportunities at key moments to push and prod for its consideration and enactment. There's an odd syntax here that reflects some slippery thinking.

Accuracy In Media

Wherefore Art Thou, Wikipedia? It's the most popular reference tool on the Web, but is it worth the virtual paper it's printed on? A growing number of colleges are considering a ban on citing Wikipedia in research papers. More...

Virtually Advising: Free Academic Advice for College Students, Graduate Students and College Hopefuls

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Researching_with_Wikipedia

Researching with Wikipedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikipedia can be a great tool for learning and researching information. However, as with all reference works, not everything in Wikipedia is accurate, comprehensive, or unbiased. Many of the general rules of thumb for conducting research apply to Wikipedia, including: Always be wary of any one single source (in any medium — web, print, television or radio), or of multiple works that derive from a single source. Where articles have references to external sources (whether online or not) read the references and check whether they really do support what the article says. In most academic institutions, major references to Wikipedia, along with most encyclopedias, are unacceptable for a research paper.

De Anza College :: Library :: Locate Articles from Magazines, Journals & Newspapers

News, legal documents, and company information. The legal component includes federal and state case law. Company Profiles provide access to company-specific information. Newspaper Source Plus

http://deanza.edu/library/articledata.html

What is violence? Who gets to define it? Does it have a place in the pursuit of liberation? These age-old questions have returned to the fore during the Occupy movement. But this discussion never takes place on a level playing field; while some delegitimize violence, the language of legitimacy itself paves the way for the [...] By Peter Phillips In an all day conference, February 10, 2012, some 120 authors, professors, and journalists, from dozens of Caribbean, American and African countries, met with Fidel Castro.

Project Censored

KILL Your TELEVISION - Ron Kaufman's anti-TV pages - contains network ownership info and recent Nielsen Ratings. Different from above site with similar name. ADBUSTERS - For-Profit Anti-Union Anti-Consumerist Anti-Imperialist Canadian Con$ervative Conundrum. "The Cult of Kalle." Interesting tidbits from their glossy magazine. Union for Democratic Communication - International Academic Association Challenging Corporate and Government Media Domination.

Critical Media Studies Links

AEJMC

Welcome to AEJMC The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) is a nonprofit, educational association of journalism and mass communication educators, students and media professionals. The Association’s mission is to promote the highest possible standards for journalism and mass communication education, to cultivate the widest possible range of communication research, to encourage the implementation of a multi-cultural society in the classroom and curriculum, and to defend and maintain freedom of communication in an effort to achieve better professional practice and a better informed public.