Region: Europe

See also The Balkans, Russia

CounterSpin: Spencer Ackerman on CIA torture documents, Ed Herman on Lockerbie (8/28/09)

CounterSpin: Helena Cobban on Russia/Georgia conflict, Iyanna Jones on black radio's 'Disappearing Voices' (8/15/08)

Extra!: 'Sexed Up' After All: Scant U.S. interest in proof of Blair's Iraq hype (Update April 2008) By Steve Rendall

CounterSpin: David Enders on Iraq, Harut Sassounian on LAT and Armenian genocide (5/4/07)

Action Alert: CBS's Nuclear Revival: 60 Minutes' critic-free boosterism (4/18/07)

Extra!: U.S. media to French youth:: Fight for Your Right to Be Fired (May/June 2006) By Peter Hart

Economy CounterSpin: Daniel Price on video news releases, Jeff Faux on globalization (4/7/06)

Media Advisory: U.S. Media to French Youth:: Fight for your right to be fired (4/4/06)

Action Alert: The Consequences of Covering Up: Washington Post withholds info on secret prisons at government request (11/4/05)

Economy Extra!: Europe Says No—to Pundits’ Advice: “Painful reforms” find few takers (September/October 2005) By Seth Ackerman

Media Advisory: Lessons from London: Bombings show right was right all along, pundits say (7/11/05)

Action Alert: Police Violence in Genoa-- Par for the Course? Media complacency helps normalize assaults on demonstrators (7/26/01)

Press Release: U.S. Media Downplay Fascist Ties of Austria's Haider: Haider's pro-Nazi "gaffes" are no aberration (2/4/00)

Extra!: Minority Rule in Northern Ireland: Press and politicians let rejectionists set debate (September/October 1999) By Laura Flanders

Extra!: Something Stinks: Francophobia at the New York Times (March/April 1999) By John L. Hess

Extra!: Visible and Invisible Caregivers: Why Princess Diana was (November/December 1997) By Laura Flanders

Extra!: Diana Mania (Update October 1997)

Extra!: Elections in Europe: The media vote for austerity (September/October 1997) By Seth Ackerman

Economy Extra!: Let Them Eat Baguettes: U.S. Press Teaches Austerity to French Strikers (March/April 1996) By Janine Jackson

Extra!: The Anti-Semitic Roots of Eastern European Nationalism (May/June 1990) By Margaret Quigley



Links:

The MediaWise Trust, fighting inaccurate, intrusive and sensational coverage in the UK.

Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, promoting British democratic media reform.

BBC Europe

Red Pepper, a U.K. left magazine on environmental, military and other issues.

European newspapers at Newslink.

Institute for War and Peace Reporting, supporting independent media in the Balkans, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty,news and analysis about Eastern Europe.

Transitions Online Magazine, politics and culture in Eastern Europe, with links to regional media.

world-newspapers.com, European newspapers online and news sites in English.