Stories by Rory O'Connor
Filmmaker and journalist Rory O'Connor is the author of "Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio" (AlterNet Books, 2008). O'Connor also writes the Media Is A Plural blog.
The corporate overlords at CBS and NBC won't fire Imus unless they have to for financial reasons. So let's support the sponsors who have pulled out, and lean on the ones who haven't ... yet.
Posted on Apr 11, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Filmmaker Ken Burns has come under intense criticism for not including any Hispanic Americans in his new 14-hour PBS documentary about World War II.
Posted on Apr 2, 2007, Source: AlterNet
A recent New York Times article about the Libby trial is another example of their weird world view. Leave it to the New York Times to pronounce something "corrupt" and then embrace it as "crucial."
Posted on Mar 28, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Scooter Libby faces up to 25 years in prison for obstructing the investigation into the leak of a CIA agent's identity, but he didn't do it alone ...
Posted on Mar 6, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Does everyone's favorite conservative sociopath warrant sympathy or antipathy?
Posted on Mar 6, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Purporting to analyze the media's cozy relationship to those in power, PBS's new documentary series misses the boat...
Posted on Feb 12, 2007, Source: AlterNet
The trial of Scooter Libby reveals that the big-time media is hopelessly, helplessly broken...
Posted on Feb 6, 2007, Source: AlterNet
CBS's chief foreign correspondent notified peers that the network won't broadcast her grisly Baghdad story "that is largely being ignored."
Posted on Jan 26, 2007, Source: MediaChannel.org
Scooter Libby is charged with lying to a grand jury during their investigation of the outing of Valerie Plame.
Posted on Jan 24, 2007, Source: AlterNet
What changes and trends can we expect on the U.S. media scene in the coming new year?
Posted on Dec 29, 2006, Source: AlterNet
CBS News Chief Sean McManus discusses the future's newsroom, citizen media, and the failure of pre-Iraq media.
Posted on Dec 20, 2006, Source: AlterNet
A new community of expert and amateur readers grades the news as it happens...
Posted on Nov 27, 2006, Source: AlterNet
A new book by an Emmy Award-winning journalist chronicles the exploits of the "triple-crossing" superspy who outwitted and outgunned our intelligence agencies, Ali Mohamed.
Posted on Nov 15, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Time's iconoclastic editor Rick Stengel charts a new course for an old weekly ...
Posted on Oct 11, 2006, Source: AlterNet
A formal declaration of war could be the first step to victory.
Posted on Sep 20, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Until there's a legitimate, independent investigation of the events of 9/11, we'll never move on.
Posted on Sep 14, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The author of a new book about the mistakes that led to 9/11 accuses the National Geographic Channel of diluting a documentary about the book in order to protect the government.
Posted on Aug 23, 2006, Source: AlterNet
A new book explores the 'stupidity, hubris and dereliction of duty' behind the pre-9/11 intelligence failure.
Posted on Aug 7, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Community-built websites -- 'wikis' -- are growing in ways unimaginable to their inventor.
Posted on Aug 2, 2006, Source: AlterNet
But what if it doesn't like what it reads?
Posted on Jul 19, 2006, Source: AlterNet
A bipartisan group of spinmeisters and insiders aims to 'bypass the filter' and deepen the debate. Sure thing.
Posted on Jul 12, 2006, Source: AlterNet
'Real' journalism is about letting presidents and captains of industry lie. Get with the program.
Posted on Jun 22, 2006, Source: AlterNet
A new study shows that one in five companies has disciplined employees for disobeying blogging policy.
Posted on Jun 16, 2006, Source: AlterNet
With all the negative attention focused on Judith Miller, the credibility of another reporter is questioned.
Posted on Jun 5, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The Times' then managing editor, Bill Keller, was never told about a potential story predicting 9/11 attacks.
Posted on May 25, 2006, Source: AlterNet
In 2001, an anonymous White House source leaked top-secret NSA intelligence to reporter Judith Miller that Al Qaida was planning a major attack on the United States. But the story never made it into the paper.
Posted on May 18, 2006, Source: AlterNet
We asked; you responded. Here are 20 of your questions for MSNBC news exec Rick Kaplan.
Posted on May 11, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Maybe, but it depends on what happens in the intensifying perjury and obstruction of justice case against Scooter Libby this week.
Posted on May 8, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Fox's top dog responds to your questions about the network's coverage. In sum: They do a heckuva job.
Posted on Apr 21, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Questions for the man at the helm of Fox's coverage -- from O'Connor and AlterNet readers.
Posted on Apr 17, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Reporters from across the spectrum gathered to answer the question: 'Is the Media Telling the True Story?'
Posted on Apr 7, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Why would pro-war right-wingers attack journalist Jill Carroll after 82 days as a hostage in Iraq?
Posted on Apr 3, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Your critique of CNN's war coverage indicates that you, reader, are on the 'fringe.'
Posted on Mar 27, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The backstory to Rory O'Connor's interview with CNN president Jonathan Klein.
Posted on Mar 27, 2006, Source: AlterNet
We asked, you responded. Here are your questions for CNN.
Posted on Mar 15, 2006, Source: AlterNet
20 Questions for CNN's president covering the war, Abu Ghraib and the 'obsequious press.'
Posted on Mar 13, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Ken Bode, PBS's exacting ombudsman, says his job is journalism, not politics -- but he sure acts a lot like a liberal.
Posted on Mar 10, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Banning cartoons in France? Rumsfeld propagandizing our own citizens? World media gone mad.
Posted on Feb 4, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Media infighting over the Bush spying scandal.
Posted on Jan 26, 2006, Source: AlterNet
A new doc on Peru chronicles how fear of terrorism was exploited to undermine democracy. Sound familiar?
Posted on Jan 13, 2006, Source: AlterNet
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