Category Archives: Media Reform

Ebola Wins “Lie Of The Year”

Posted on December 18, 2014 by Trish Nelson

This story underscores what Blog for Iowa attempts to point out about the media as often as we possibly can.  It was mostly Republicans who were making the exaggerated claims about Ebola,  but they were affirmed and supported by the … Continue reading →

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How The Corporate Media Kills Progressive Candidates

Posted on December 5, 2014 by Trish Nelson

I’ve been involved in the media reform movement since 2004.   One thing I have been writing about lately is how the national corporate media make up narratives and frames to control how we think about candidates and issues.  For example, … Continue reading →

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Still Time To Comment On Net Neutrality

Posted on December 2, 2014 by Trish Nelson

“There have been more comments on this issue than any other issue in the history of the FCC.”  –Tim Karr, FreePress.net.  Click on the link  to comment.

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What If You Had An Election And Nobody Came To Cover it?

Posted on November 24, 2014 by Trish Nelson

In Iowa, you get Joni Ernst. This article points to Colorado as a microcosm of what is happening to newspapers nationally (including Iowa), and the impact of the loss of journalism on elections.   Colorado lost 50% of reporters covering … Continue reading →

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The Normalization Of GOP Crazy

Posted on October 15, 2014 by Trish Nelson

  washingtonpost.com/ “…When Iowa Senate candidate Joni Ernst flirted with the “Agenda 21″ conspiracy theory — a favorite of Glenn Beck, in which the U.S. government and the United Nations are supposedly conspiring to force rural people in Iowa and … Continue reading →

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How The Money & Media Complex Is Sabotaging Our Elections

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Trish Nelson
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FCC Takes On Broadcasters

Posted on March 27, 2014 by Trish Nelson

Good news on the media reform front if it happens. freepress.net/blog The Federal Communications Commission is on the verge of rolling back consolidation in TV broadcasting for the first time in three decades. On March 31, the agency is expected … Continue reading →

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The History And Purpose Of Fox News Starting With Nixon

Posted on March 21, 2014 by Trish Nelson

disinfo.com/roger-ailes-secret-nixon-era-blueprint-for-fox-news/ If you suspected that Fox News was nothing more than a decades-in-the-making Republican plot to pipe propaganda to unsuspecting rubes…you were right down to a tee. Gawker dug up this amazing find: According to a remarkable document buried deep … Continue reading →

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Michael Copps’ Message To Journalists

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Trish Nelson

Columbia Journalism Review Dear Journalists: You may wonder why a long-time regulator like me is writing to you. The answer is that for more than a decade I occupied a front-row seat watching government policy undermine your profession and our … Continue reading →

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McChesney: We Need Public Funding For Journalism

Posted on March 13, 2014 by Trish Nelson

Media activist Robert McChesney, co-founder of Free Press and co-author with John Nichols of Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America, gave a lecture Monday on the University of Iowa campus.  McChesney has most recently authored … Continue reading →

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