Media

Screen It

http://www.screenit.com/

This site reviews movies and music from a parent's perspective. It rates movies and music on such things as violence, cover art, number of scary scenes, sex and nudity, and "bad attitude." It also provides good summaries of movies.

Media Studies Center

http://www.freedomforum.org/whoweare/media.asp

This site promotes integrity within the media. It seeks to bring the media and public together and includes articles and information about the responsibility and influence of the media.

Index Online

http://www.indexoncensorship.org/index.html

This site covers issues relating to censorship. It has information on censorship and free speech in various countries, current hot topics, and an archive for previous issues. It is presented as a bi-monthly magazine.  

About Face

http://www.about-face.org/

This site seeks to expose how media images misrepresent women. It includes a gallery of some of the most exploitive ads featuring women contrasted with a gallery of ads that feature women portrayed positively. It includes a section on what you can do and statistical information.

Accuracy In Media

http://www.aim.org/

This site is for a watch dog group dedicated to setting the record straight about stories the media has "botched, bungled, or ignored" and exposing how political bias (both conservative and liberal) frequently distorts the truth in media reports. It features special reports of current news that has been misrepresented and an archive of old news stories.

Fair: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting

http://www.fair.org/index.html

This is another organization dedicated to exposing media bias and distortions. It explains some misleading facts and statistics in current stories and the relationship between the media and big corporations among other things.

Gay Media Resource List

http://www.northbound-train.com/gaymedia.html

This site lists radio and television programs of interest to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered community by state. It also contains a who's who list of people influential in the gay community.

White Trash: The Construction of an American Scapegoat

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA97/price/open.htm

This site explores how the media and popular culture have constructed the image of poor white Americans into white trash. It explores media representations of poor white Americans and the stereotypes associated with the lifestyle, religion, and jobs of poor white Americans. As a bonus it includes a complete bibliography.

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