Vanilla Ceiling: Magazines Still Shades of White
By Lizzy Ratner, The New York Observer
It is difficult to quantify just how non-diverse the magazine industry is, but the results of a survey of some leading New York magazines looked like the far end of assorted paint-color chips: ivory, bone, mist.
All News Channels Abroad Look to Their Future in English
New York Times, Doreen Cavajal
All-news channels are launching around the world -- but in English. "Today news channels are part of the global battle in the world," said Ulysse Gosset who is helping to lead a project to create an all-news French channel this year.
Al Jazeera: From Network, to a Bush Target, to Courts
A British civil servant and a former researcher appeared in court on Tuesday in the latest skirmish of an unfolding legal battle over claims that President Bush proposed bombing Al Jazeera's television headquarters.
By Alan Cowell, NY Times
Media War On Islam People who depend mainly on Western media as their sole source of information continue on blissfully ignorant of just how biased and unjust their free societies are.
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