Believe it or not, there are standards in journalism. Visiting the places below may open your eyes to what you're not getting from your media— and maybe get you to do something about it. -Leigh
Journalism
American Politics Journal
Self-billed as the longest-running political commentary periodical on the Internet, American Politics Journal has chalked up 15 years and counting. Go »
Annenberg Public Policy Center
Research, lectures, conferences, and roundtable discussions highlighting important questions about the intersection of media, communication, and public policy. Their focus is on the areas of political communication, information and society, media and the developing child, health communication, and adolescent risk. Go »
Axis of Logic
Extensively researched daily reports of news, actions and commentary from around the world. Go »
Butterflies and Wheels
Fighting the subjugation of rational assessment in the media, the political realm and public discourse. Check your self-righteous indignation at the door. Go »
Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
National coalition of health care professionals, educators, advocacy groups and concerned parents who counter the harmful effects of marketing to children. Go »
Center for Public Integrity
Nonprofit, nonpartisan organization serving the public interest by conducting investigative research and reporting on public policy issues in the United States and around the world. Go »
Crossfire: Jon Stewart
If you missed the fake news show host that the mainstream media turns to for integrity spanking the Crossfire duo, then see it here on the nodltd.com servers. [35Mb] Blisteringly funny and oh so sadly dead on. You're welcome. Go »
CounterPunch
Bi-weekly muckraking newsletter by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair bent on telling us things we didn't know. Go »
Free Press
Non-profit organization working to involve the public in media policymaking. Go »
Journalism.Org
Research organization run by journalists whose goal is to use research rather than merely criticism to clarify and raise the standards of American journalism. Go »
Institute for Public Accuracy
Promotes the inclusion of perspectives that widen the bounds of media discussion and enhance democratic debate. Go »
Media Matters for America
Not-for-profit progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media. Go »
Media Channel
Impressive media supersite offering extensive journalism resources and timely reporting on the political, cultural and social impact of the media. Go »
The Memory Hole
Preserving and spreading material that is in danger of being lost, is hard to find, or is not widely known with emphasis on material that exposes things that we're not supposed to know (or that we're supposed to forget). Go »
News Hounds
Eight middle-aged citizens who believe a viable democracy depends upon viable media: They watch Fox so we don't have to. Go »
Poynter Online
Excellent journalism resource from the Poynter Institute school for journalists. Go »
Project Censored
Media research group focusing on the role of independent journalism in a democratic society and offering "The News That Didn't Make the News" and the reasons why.Go »
Reporters Without Borders
Internation organization fighting censorship; protecting, defending and supporting journalists, and; defending press freedom world wide. Go »
Spinsanity
Nonpartisan watchdog dedicated to unspinning misleading claims from politicians, pundits and the press. Go »
Take Back The Media
Dedicated to actively reclaiming broadcast media from the clutches of corporations and the politicians they fund. Go »
Technorati
Monitors more than three million blogs in real time so you can discover the conversations happening now— now. Go »
TV News Lies
"No Distractions. No Deception. No Diversions. No Delusion. Read the stories that TV news networks forget to report." Go »
What Really Happened
Exposing deceptions by governments and media used to trick the public into wars and out of their money. Go »
