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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: Fear & Favor 2001 -- The Second Annual Report By Janine Jackson and Peter Hart Fear & Favor is FAIR’s annual review of incidents that reflect the range of pressures on reporters to use something other than journalistic judgment in deciding what goes in the news and what gets left out. The year 2001 presented special challenges in this regard. The horrific September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the ensuing declaration by the Bush administration of an open-ended "war on terrorism," meant incredible pressure on the press corps to present U.S. actions and policy in the best light; incidents of outright censorship occurred, and even more self-censorship, as many outlets confused independent inquiry with a lack of patriotism. At the same time, there was no let-up in pressure from the more usual sources: media owners and advertisers. Corporate media owners increasingly see using their media outlets to promote their other businesses and the perspectives they favor as simply standard business practice; and advertisers, in a time of recession, appear to feel freer than ever to demand a favorable context for their ads, which are, after all, media’s main revenue source. Further consolidation in the industry, abetted and encouraged by a deregulatory FCC, only promises more to come. Surveys of journalists have noted such problems for years. A 2001 survey by the Project for Excellence in Journalism (Columbia Journalism Review, 11-12/01), for example, found that 53 percent of local news directors "reported advertisers try to tell them what to air and not to air and they say the problem is growing." Such pressures, PEJ's report indicates, are not unusual but constant. To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2044 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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