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Adbusters Culture Jammers Headquaters
From the folks at the mighty Adbusters comes this multimedia toolbox full of goodies to free your mind of corporate propaganda and media brainwashing. The most incisive criticism, hilarious satire and wicked advertising parodies you are ever likely to find! In the top 1% of all Web sites!
Alternet
Don Hazen spearheads one of the finest progressive Internet media sites, covering a diversity of cultural and political issues.
ZNet
Stunning collection of resources, essays, FAQs, interviews, and information updated daily on hot-spots, manufacturing consent, corporate abuse of power, activism, foreign policy, emerging social change institutions and political agendas and much more! You must check this site out!
NegativWorldWideWebLand
Legendary media pranksters, once sued by Island Records for parodying U2. Read about Negativland's final tour and current activities.
Corporate Watch: The Corporate Watchdog On The Web
Exposes Nike sweat-shops, dubious BP solar power claims, US-Mexico border disputes, bio-diversity think-tanks, and other mercantile corporate and global issues. Excellent institutional analysis and external links sections encompassing many current issues and capaigns.
Jim Romenesko's Media News
Jim Romenesko's award winning site has replaced the "water-cooler" in many media organizations. Journalists discuss other stories and offer scoops.
Media Channel
Danny Schechter's network of over 600 global media sources will give you a diversity of viewpoints beyond the Newspapers of Record. The Media Reader and streaming media archives are highly recommended. An authoritative and informative site.
Free Speech Internet Television
An audio/webcasting site network entirely created by members, aiming to provide free hosting for democratic, progressive projects. Stunning array of programs and member sites already available, from NATO air-strike exposes to the latest exploits of the Biotic Baking Brigade, a growing global pastry uprising. Check it out now!
Pacifica Radio
Influential U.S. based radio network notable for credible information on media politics, geopolitical upheavals, and liberal activist coverage. The archive and online services are excellent.
Brainfood
Try digesting some of these enlightening rants about the sad state of our media and natural environments, complete with suggestions on how we can begin to remedy the situation!
Multinational Monitor
Excellent resource for tracking multinational activity, especially in Third World regions where labour unions/trade organizations are under attack, health and safety regulations are ignored and environmental agendas are paramount. Substantial, credible information. Get informed now!
Essential Information!
Massive collection of links to worldwide multinational/corporate activist campaigns, legislation, news coverage, and discussion lists. Brutally reveals and de-constructs corporate welfare and corporate socialism policies. Get informed and get active!
The Ralph Nader Page
The home-page of America's leading consumer-rights activist and all-round anti-corporate good-guy.
Drudge Report
Matt Drudge broke l'affaire Lewinsky, even though the details were already known to the New York Times and other organizations. Either the scourge or savior of online media.
World Net Daily
"WorldNetDaily.com is a fiercely independent news service created to capitalize on new media technology and opportunities, to reinterpret the role of the free press as a guardian of liberty, an exponent of truth and an uncompromising disseminator of news."
NewsMax
Salon.com for conservatives and right-wing media pundits, spearheaded by Chris Ruddy.
Counterpunch
Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair cast their alchemical spell to disrupt the Washington Elite. Highly recommended.
alterNewswire
Disinformation Contributing Editor Russ Kick surfs the global dataflow to uncover some gems. Find out what's really happening.
The Baffler
"What we are absolutely sure about is that contemporary capitalism has marshalled the forces of culture, whatever they are, to ensconce itself in power and to insulate itself from criticism to an almost entirely unprecedented extent." People need to read this magazine.
Mother Jones
Raising hell for over 25 years, Mother Jones magazine is a very credible source for activist journalists, news industry analysis and hot-button issues. Highly recommended.
Global Media Moguls: And Then There Were Nine
Mind blowing 'family tree' assembled by The Nation (November 29, 1999) of the people who control most of the information you want to know.
Oneworld.net: Connect To A Better World
Whether exposing the actions of Taliban militia or revealing the impact of growing Third World debt, Oneworld.net does an admirable job of conveying news and current affairs from vast regions of the world that multi-national media networks regularly fail to report on. The many resources include search-engines, campaigns, and media dispatches. One of the best resources you are ever likely to find!
Mother Jones: Top 100 Corporate Criminals Of The 1990s
The legendary activist magazine Mother Jones (September 1999) has compiled an eye-opening list of the major corporate criminal companies of the 1990s who have successfully infiltrated many aspects of our daily lives. Revealing, impeccably researched by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman. Sobering analysis from a credible source. Make sure you check out the rest of this amazing Web site!
Corporate Predators
Site devoted to Corporate Predators (Monroe: Common Courage Press, 1999), a stunning book by authors Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman that reveals the dark-side of Mercantile Capitalism. Discover amazing facts like: "Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates' net wealth -- $51 billion -- is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40 percent of Americans (106 million people." An awakening dose of the corporate-dominated society blues!
McSpotlight
This site captures one of the most notorious campaigns against corporate control of mass media (the massive six-year McLibel trial debacle), charting a sobering journey through lies, spying, global PR moves, dubious legal tactics and much more. Check out the incredible 'Beyond McDonalds' section for an insight into multi-national links to arms trade, worker exploitation, censoring critics and other travesties. It's a small world, after all - until you have to clean it!
Junk Busters
Excellent web resource for fighting the encroaching anti-privacy that has grown with recent mega-mergers. This site covers tele-marketing scripts, junk e-mail, cookies, direct marketing issues, targeted web advertising and much more. Contains probably more information than you could ever find on privacy issues.
ARCchart
ARCchart is a strategic analysis tool covering over 8000 companies in the the Telecommunications, IT, Internet, Media and Entertainment Industries. Very useful for institutional and media cross-ownership analysis: ARCchart collates pending/current equity investments and investors (with percentage ownership).
Media Circus
An Australian based network of media activists and researchers who unravel the corporate lies that dominate the Ur-Oz media landscape.
Media Online: A Few Firms Thrive While Many Fail
This two-part NPR report (July 2-3, 2001), by Rick Karr, examines how corporations are threatening the Internet's media diversity: "A new study by the research firm Jupiter Media Metrix shows that internet users spend most of their online time with just four companies: AOL/Time, Microsoft, Yahoo, and embattled music-sharing service Napster. The survey also shows that the number of companies that control 60 percent of online time has shrunk from 110 in 1999 to just 14 today." Two RealAudio clips also available.
The Smoking Gun
News uncovered by two Village Voice investigative reporters from public documents.
Lobster
An excellent research source edited by the indomnitable Robin Ramsay on parapolitics, intelligence agencies and state research.
Inside.com
Once amongst the most incisive media industry monitoring sites, Inside.com was purchased by Stephen Brill and mutated into a subscription-driven site. A sign of things to come?
Brill's Content
Stephen Brills is a highly controversial figure who illustrates the promise and peril of monitoring the media. Could this become just another media industry?
For Disney's Eisner, the Business Is Content, Not Conduits
This New York Times article (July 2, 2001), by Seth Schiesel, examines Disney CEO Michael Eisner's tactics in the face of "digital convergence" moves by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and AOL/Time-Warner.
A Front-Page Graphic in Salon
This Flak Magazine article (July 16, 2001), by Julia Lipman, critically examines Salon's assimilation of softcore porn imagery for front-page graphics.
Slashdot in the Balance?
This MSNBC article (July 2, 2001), by Rafat Ali, examines how the fortunes of parent company VA Linux affect the popular Slashdot community.
Revolutionary Idea: Foreign Ownership
This LA Times article (July 4, 2001), by Brian Lowry, examines US restrictions on foreign ownership and changing regulatory guidelines. "In a nutshell, foreign companies are prohibited from owning U.S. TV and radio stations--a rule that appears utterly dated in a global media landscape where various other guidelines have been eliminated, gutted or ignored."
Why The Internet Is 'Dangerous'.
Excellent editorial on the dangers on free information exchange on the Internet (to the Establishment, that is). Highly recommended reading!
Media Linguicide & Class Wars
Intelligent rant against corporate America's puppeteering of U.S. political reportage.
GBN=Wired? The Fall Of Wired U.K.
The seminal newspaper column by cyberculture analyst Douglas Rushkoff that exploded the Myth of Wired magazine. Learn the real meaning of the California Ideology.
Convenience As Coercion: The MovieFone Syndrome
Learn all about 'network externalities' and the disturbing invasion of corporate mass media products into previously free services.
Douglas Rushkoff: RTMark
Vintage Douglas Rushkoff column that questions the corporate-bashing agenda of culture-jammers RTMark, especially relating to sponsorship of other activist campaigns. Who exposes the exposers?
The California Ideology
A complex but seminal ideological piece examining how one particular perspective on the Internet came to dominate all others, including issues relating to corporate control of the mass media.
The Information War: Military-Entertainment Complex
Australian author, journalist, and academic McKenzie Wark maps out the post-World War II evolution of the intertwined military/arms trade, technology R&D and entertainment industries. Highly recommended reading!
The Media Borg Wants You
This Salon article (June 26, 2001) introduces the Media Borg series: Salon's " new series on the corporate consolidation of the information industries."
Media Borg: Assimilating the Web
This Salon article (June 26, 2001), by Scott Rosenberg, examines a frightening scenario: would a trade war between Microsoft and AOL/Time-Warner wreck the Web?
Media Borg: One Big Happy Channel?
This Salon article (June 28, 2001), by Eric Boehlert, details the fallout of the Telecommunications Act (1996) on radio: the rise of oligopolistic companies like Clear Channel and Infinity.
Media Borg: The Incredible Vanishing Book Review
This Salon article (July 19, 2001), by Kevin Berger, examines how newspaper budget cuts and readership apathy have impacted on the art of book reviewing.
Disinformation Dossier on Noam Chomsky
Check out the Disinformation dossier on Noam Chomsky.
Disinformation Dossier on Zapatista Rebels
Check out the Disinformation dossier on Zapatista Rebels.
Disinformation Dossier on Howard Bloom
Check out the Disinformation dossier on Howard Bloom.
Disinformation Dossier on Jello Biafra
Check out the Disinformation dossier on Jello Biafra.
Disinformation Dossier on Douglas Rushkoff
Check out the Disinformation dossier on Douglas Rushkoff.
Disinformation Dossier on George Gerbner and the Cultural Environment Movement
Check out the Disinformation dossier on George Gerbner and the Cultural Environment Movement
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