Website review: Media Hell - Home
carolspinelli discovered this in Activism
•6 reviews since Mar 16, 2007
activism, media, journalism
•mediahell.org
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carolspinelli discovered 16 months ago- "Media Hell is a web community project to identify common media fallacies, and to investigate their causes and effects... Main sections of Media Hell: * Media Fallacies: falsehoods and flawed logic in news reporting. This is the core section of the site. (Our media fallacies database is an ongoing project). * Media Horseshit: real-life examples of unintentional media fallacies. Includes responses to our claims by people inside and outside of the media. * Toxic Slime: intentional fallacies, ie propaganda, PR and the "darker" side of the mainstream reporting. Updated regularly with TV/press examples." Kind of UK-centered (because, duh, they're from the UK), but very good. Sample of what you can find there: "BBC and ITN are both guilty of recycling old "terror scare" footage to create headline stories out of minor reports. Two recent examples are the BBC1 coverage of the court proceedings for the alleged 21/7/05 terror plot, and ITN coverage of the alleged "Birmingham" terror plot. Gratuitous media scaremongering at its worst."
- patoloco rated 5 months ago
- I thumbed up an article from this site....yesterday? After fiddling around here, thought the home page deserved a thumbs up as well (instead....).
- Marcus-Lycus rated 6 months ago
- An offshoot of Anxiety Culture.
- Anarcharnate rated 13 months ago
- Biased, naturally, against mainstream media, but very useful in exposing some of the double standards which we have wrongly come to expect as natural in the reporting of news.
- davidfm rated 16 months ago
- thanks to carolspinelli.stumbleupon.com for this precious link: From the page: "Media Hell is a project to expose media fallacies. It's a lazy person's guide to diabolical reporting."
