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G8 media monitor online

manos | 15.03.2005 00:45 | G8 2005 | Indymedia | Repression | Cambridge

The Cambridge Action Network has set up a media monitoring project, to follow the coverage of the G8 protests.

Daily reports of news stories about the upcomming G8 protest in Scotland, will be posted on the following web-site:
 http://www.cambridgeaction.net/g8-lies

The contact details of the major news sources are also available. If you do not agree with their coverage, you think it is biased, or just plain flippant let them know!

manos
- Homepage: http://www.cambridgeaction.net/g8-lies

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15.03.2005 10:51

This is great. Below are some other media monitoring resources. There's also Google News which is a pretty good tracker (search for "G8 Gleneagles etc") - you can also elect to get the articles sent to you be email daily or when they are picked up by google news.

But what's needed is a way of also tracking the letters people have written. People have been writing into letters pages as well as writing complaints about certain media coverage. It would be good to also collect together these letters people have written.

We all know the uk press loves nothing better than to make up spurious sensationalist stories, or at best embelish with language that is incorrect (for example several stories talk of infiltrating secret anarchist training camps when the meetings have been advertised in public, some 'facts' are repeated again and again, like '50,000 people fought running battles with police' during the Evian G8 which are just plain wrong) - This is a serious matter since the media always contributes to the prevailing climate before large protests, and the prevailing climate informs not only a large number of the public but also the policing response.

Other Media Resources:

PGA G8 Press Archive:
 http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/resistg8/media/index.htm

Dissent! Media Matrix (links to articles + allows clasification by subject, author, paper etc):
 http://del.icio.us/dissent

IMC Scotland Other Press Section:
 http://www.scotland.indymedia.org/otherpress

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