Media Matters for America
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http://mediamatters.org/
Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.

The New Hampshire Gazette
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http://www.nhgazette.com
Almost 250 years old, The New Hampshire Gazette is published and edited by a collateral descendant of the founder. It's progressive reporting includes Editorial, Local & National News, Political Cartoons and an active Media Watch section.

Truth Out
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http://www.truthout.org
TO began in the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election hoping that to reach a few people, have some small impact on the dialog, and maybe just maybe try to restore a little integrity. Today TO is visited more than 4 million times per month by readers seeking the straight story and wanting to be involved in building a better tomorrow.

GNN.tv -- Guerilla News Network
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http://www.gnn.tv
Guerrilla News Network is an independent news organization with headquarters in New York City and production facilities in Berkeley, California. Our mission is to expose people to important global issues through cross-platform guerrilla programming.

Critical Acclaim
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http://www.criticalacclaim.com
A topsites list featuring popular politically progressive pages and sites in categories such as blogs, resources, thinkers, texts & media, history and much more.

Weapoons of Misdirection
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http://www.dvrepublic.org/radio/foreign_relations/main.cfm
Webby award winner in the Politics category. Just check it out.

Truth Out
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http://www.truthout.org
Independint current events and issues reporting covering politics, environment, labour, health, women's issues. Op-eds and media analysis as well.

Adbusters
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http://www.adbusters.org
Brilliantly turns mass culture apparatus, particularly media and advertisting, into tools for dissent, while reflexively commenting on their subversive nature.

Critical Graphics
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http://www.criticalgraphics.com
Progressive, political, spirited: outspoken graphical desiagns on stickers, t-shirts, buttons, mugs and more.

CONTEMPL8 T-SHIRTS
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http://contempl8.net/CONTEMPL8%20T-SHIRTS.htm
A small number of clever, powerful designs including George Bush holding a "Will Kill for Oil" placard.

The NewStandard
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http://newstandardnews.net/
A fledgling participatory economics collective, The NewStandard?s specialty is hard news coverage unreported or rarely reported in the corporate media.

CounterPunch
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http://www.counterpunch.org
"Ours is muckraking with a radical attitude and nothing makes us happier than when CounterPunch readers write in to say how useful they've found our newsletter in their battles against the war machine, big business and the rapers of nature. ~ CounterPunch"

Third World Traveler
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http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com
Provides magazine articles and book excerpts that offer an alternative view to the corporate media about the state of democracy in America, and about the impact of corporate power and the policies of the US government on a variety of issues.

Media Matters
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http://www.aap.org/advocacy/mediamatters.htm
Media Matters is a national public education campaign of the American Academy of Pediatrics. It was launched in 1997 to help pediatricians, parents, and children become more aware of the influence that media have on child and adolescent health.

Independent Media Center (Indymedia)
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http://www.indymedia.org
Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth. Indymedia sites around the world also provide event calendars and other local resources.

Medialens
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http://www.medialens.org/
Because much modern suffering is rooted in the unlimited greed of corporate profit-maximising - in the subordination of people and planet to profit - it seems to [Medialens] to be a genuine tragedy that society has for so long been forced to rely on the corporate media for 'accurate' information.

Amnesty International
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http://www.amnesty.org/
Amnesty International is a worldwide voluntary human rights movement that campaigns for the release of prisoners of conscience, fair trials for political prisoners, and an end to torture and the death penalty, 'disappearances' and political killings all over the world.

First Casualty, Again
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http://media.guardian.co.uk/iraqandthemedia/story/0,12823,1225464,00.html
If the first casualty of war is the truth, then the second casualty should be the media, which failed to report it, followed closely on its heels by the governments which failed to tell it.

Editor and Publisher
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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/
A press watchdog whose lineage dates back to 1884, E&P covers all aspects of the North American newspaper industry, including business, newsroom, advertising, circulation, marketing, technology, online and syndicates.

AlterNet
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http://www.alternet.org
This is an important resource. AlterNet.org is a project of the Independent Media Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism. First launched in 1998, AlterNet's online magazine provides a mix of news, opinion and investigative journalism on a wide array of subjects..

Media Channel
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http://www.mediachannel.org
MediaChannel is a media issues supersite, featuring criticism, breaking news, and investigative reporting from hundreds of organizations worldwide. As the media watch the world, we watch the media.

FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting)
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http://www.fair.org
FAIR, a leftist media watchdog, brings attention to biased and faulty reporting in mainstream media and organises action (typically in the form of write-in campaigns) to force media outlets to acknowledge and correct their errors, omissions and biases.



http://www.mediawatch.com/
"Challenges racism, sexism and violence in the media through education and action." Particularly focussed on abusive stereotypes and other biased images commonly found in the media.


http://www.fair.org/
A progressive media watch group which writes and distributes critiques of journalists and news publishers/broadcasters. Also establishes direct action campaigns on specific topics of interest.