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Online Resources
The following sites should be of great interest to anyone concerned about the state of our democracy. They offer news neglected by the corporate news divisions, as well as further information on the possibilities for thoroughgoing media reform.Alternet
A new online magazine, information source and community that combines quality journalism, public-interest content, interactivity, passionate advocacy and links to useful resources.
Bushwatch
Bush Watch is a daily political internet magazine based in Austin, Texas, a non-advocacy site paid for and edited by Politex, a non-affiliated U.S. citizen.
Center for Public Integrity
The Center for Public Integrity's mission is to provide the American public with the findings of its investigations and analyses of public service, government accountability, and ethics-related issues via books, reports and newsletters. The Center, founded by Charles Lewis in 1990, is a non-profit, non-partisan educational organization.
Center for Responsive Politics
The Center for Responsive Politics is a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy. The Center conducts computer-based research on campaign finance issues for the news media, academics, activists, and the public at large. The Center’s work is aimed at creating a more educated voter, an involved citizenry, and a more responsive government.
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. FAIR works to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. As an anti-censorship organization, FAIR exposes important news stories that are neglected and defend working journalists when they are muzzled.
The Media Channel
MediaChannel.org is a nonprofit, public interest Web site dedicated to global media issues. MediaChannel offers news, reports and commentary from our international network of media-issues organizations and publications, as well as original features from contributors and staff. Resources include thematic special reports, action toolkits, forums for discussion, an indexed directory of hundreds of affiliated groups and a search engine constituting the single largest online media-issues database.
TomPaine.common sense ("A Journal of Opinion")
TomPaine.com seeks to enrich the national debate on controversial public issues by featuring the ideas, opinions, and analyses too often overlooked by the mainstream media, promoting these in weekly advertisements on the op ed page of the New York Times and on the website, which offers in-depth coverage and provides links to underappreciated authors and organizations. TomPaine.com's HISTORY DEPARTMENT adds to current public discourse the timely and studied opinions of some of the nation's preeminent historians. In TAKE ON THE NEWS watchdogs the watchdogs, reporting the latest examples of the media's sins and successes.
Working for Change
A comprehensive Web site made up of resources for people with progressive values. Anyone with Internet access (members and non-members alike) can speak out on urgent issues, go shopping, make a donation, volunteer their time or listen to the radio.