New Issue of FAIR's Magazine Extra! Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:08:54 -0500 (CDT) New Issue of Extra! Subscriptions to FAIR's bimonthly magazine Extra! are a big part of what keeps FAIR going?helping us provide free services like the action alerts on this list. Selected articles from the latest issue of Extra!--a special issue focusing on media coverage of poverty--are now available online: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=21&extra_issue_id=205. FAIR STUDY The Poor Will Always Be With Us Just Not on the TV news By Neil deMause & Steve Rendall A three-year study by FAIR reveals that ABC, CBS and NBC consider the plight of tens of millions of poor Americans to be less newsworthy than Michael Jackson's legal troubles. Fencing Off the Immigration Debate Why workers cross the border is off the agenda By Julie Hollar Newspapers' laments on the suffering of undocumented immigrants rang hollow as the media championed an immigration bill opposed by most grassroots immigrant rights groups, while all but ignoring the unfair U S. trade policies that drive emigration from countries such as Mexico. Rachel Carson, Mass Murderer? The creation of an anti-environmental myth By Aaron Swartz The late author of the book exposing the dangers of DDT becomes a convenient scapegoat for anti-environmentalists. 'I Like This Violence' Censoring the U.S. role in Gaza's civil war By Seth Ackerman News reporting on the violence in Gaza last June obscured the critical role of the U.S. in deliberately sabotaging the Hamas/Fatah unity government, and financing, training and arming militias. Articles only available in print: A Poverty of Coverage Why Aren't the poor on the media agenda? By Steve Rendall In a TV news business that puts a premium on affluent viewers, poverty is deemed to be of little interest to audiences--despite the fact that most Americans consider it to be a serious issue. Cheerleading for Inequality Rich getting richer is all for the better, pundits say By Dean Baker The enormous upward redistribution of wealth may sound like bad news to all but the richest 10 percent of Americans, but the media pass it off as good news for all. Swift-Boating 'America's Mayor'? Hometown paper rushes to defend Giuliani By Peter Hart Despite scattered media allusions to a video made by firefighters critical of Giuliani as an attempt to "Swift Boat" the former New York Mayor, the derision with which the media treated the firefighters' video was quite the opposite of their enthusiastic reaction to the false claims of the anti-Kerry Swift Boat campaign. City of Terror Painting Paraguay's 'casbah' as terror central By April Howard & Benjamin Dangl U.S. media misinformation paves the way for the U.S. military in the Paraguayan city of Ciudad del Este. Extra!, FAIR's bimonthly magazine of hard-hitting, well-documented media criticism, tackles the same types of issues as this online activist list, but in greater depth and detail. With every new issue, we make a few featured articles available online free of charge. But because Extra! subscriptions play a vital role in keeping FAIR going, the only way we can give you access to the full magazine is if you subscribe. Please subscribe today--you'll get a year's worth of first-rate media criticism delivered to your door, starting with this issue, and help sustain FAIR. $21 per year gets you six issues of Extra!, plus six issues of Extra! Update, the activist newsletter of FAIR--not available on any newsstand. 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