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http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Issues/Business/Media/Bias_and_Balance/ google list of sites on this topic

some media research sources also listed here http://journalism.utexas.edu/asne/reese.html
and here Media Watchers and Activists http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/media/mediawatch.html

News Bias Explored http://www.umich.edu/~newsbias/index.html from some U of M students, presents some information about how to indentify bias in news stories. Also has a good list of links http://www.umich.edu/~newsbias/links.html about other sites with info about identifying bias.

http://rhetorica.net/

The Rhetorica Network offers analysis and commentary about the rhetoric, propaganda, and spin of journalism and politics, including analysis of presidential speeches and election campaigns.
This site was developed by Andrew R. Cline, Assistant Professor, Missouri State University, Department of Media, Journalism and Film. He is listed here http://mjf.missouristate.edu/faculty.asp

accuracy in media http://www.aim.org/ as saying media is biased toward liberal

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as saying media is biased to conservative

Liberal sites

Institute for Public Accuracy http://www.accuracy.org/ This site appears to be from the liberal point of view.

http://www.fair.org/   FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism
of media bias and censorship since 1986
FAIR is listed here   http://www.house.gov/hinchey/famcaucus/resources.shtml   


http://www.fairpress.org/   According to this site:
Our goals are to:
   1. Ensure that both broadcast and print media present the news accurately and
fairly
   2. That they not present opinion or spin as fact, and
   3. That news of importance and relevance is neither omitted nor slanted toward
any political persuasion.


Media Matters
http://mediamatters.org/
Media matters is listed here   http://www.house.gov/hinchey/famcaucus/resources.shtml   
and cited here  http://www.gao.gov/decisions/appro/304829.htm


http://www.journalism.org/
especially tools for citizens   http://www.journalism.org/resources/j_tools


Conservative sites

http://www.mediaresearch.org/   media research center


http://www.newsmax.com/   analysis of various stories.

http://www.timeswatch.org/ 'exposing' the liberal agenda of the New York Times.

One critical study of a MRC report is listed here http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~nunberg/MRC.html

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last verified 12/14/07