The Demise of the Newsmakers

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind. 

Jim Morrison 

The break-up of News International gathers speed, with two of the three major party leaders in support of curtailing Murdoch's power.

http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2011/07/17/miliband-and-clegg-manoeuvre-to-break-up-murd

The Negative Impact of Journalism

American Propaganda from WWI

A side of journalism we don't often think about: the role of the media  and propaganda campaigns in indoctrinating populations and even inciting hatred and violence against minorities. This article examines the issue of whether the actions of the media can ever be considered to be war crimes, with particular focus on a Kenyan case.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/05/kenyan-trial-asks-can-journalism-be-a-war-crime/238692/

US Media and the Curveball Disclosures

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27583.htm

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is

to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion,

but allow very lively debate within that spectrum."

Noam Chomsky

Discusses the failure of the US media to publish the revelations that the main source of intelligence linking Saddam to WMDs was in fact lying, and that his story was discounted by both British and German intelligence well before the invasion.