Corporate/Media
Watch Dogs

Free Press is a national nonpartisan organization working to increase informed public participation in crucial media policy debates, and to generate policies that will produce a more competitive and public interest-oriented media system with a strong nonprofit and noncommercial sector.

FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. It works to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints.

The Community Broadcasters Association is a national organization representing the diversity and economic survival of all class A & low power television stations in the United States.

CorpWatch counters corporate-led globalization through education, network-building and activism. It looks to foster democratic control over corporations by building grassroots movements for human rights and dignity.

IFG looks to expose the multiple effects of economic globalization in order to stimulate debate, and seeks to reverse the globalization process by encouraging ideas and activities, which revitalize local economies and communities, and ensure long-term ecological stability.

MNet is a Canadian non-profit organization that has been pioneering the development of media literacy programs since its incorporation in 1996. Members of its team have backgrounds in education, journalism, mass communications, and cultural policy.

Project Censored is a media research group out of Sonoma State University which tracks the news published in independent journals and newsletters. From these, Project Censored compiles an annual list of 25 news stories of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported or self-censored by the country’s major national news media.

Commercial Alert’s mission is to keep the commercial culture within its proper sphere, and to prevent it from exploiting children and subverting the higher values of family, community, environmental integrity and democracy.

Accuracy In Media is a non-profit, grassroots citizens watchdog of the news media that critiques botched and bungled news stories and sets the record straight on important issues that have received slanted coverage.

PR Watch offers investigative reporting on the public relations industry by helping the public recognize manipulative and misleading PR practices by exposing the activities of little-know propaganda-for-hire firms that work to control political debates and public opinion.

Media Transparency is a watchdog organization that traces funding sources of many media and political organizations.

National Institute on Media and the Family was created to provide information about media products and their likely impact on children to parents and other adults so they can make informed choices.

Who’s Lying is a media-focused nonprofit organization that devotes itself to correcting statements and actions that do not responsibly reflect objective reality.

Freedom House is an advocate of the world's young democracies, which are coping with the debilitating legacy of statism, dictatorship, and political repression.

Human Rights Watch, which is an independent, nongovernmental organization, supported by contributions from private individuals and foundations worldwide, investigates and exposes human rights violations and holds abusers accountable.

Media Reform Information Center provides links and resources about media reform.

The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) is a tax exempt, nonprofit organization deploying an in-house team of public interest lawyers, policy experts, strategists, public educators, and grassroots activists to advance and protect the interests of consumers and taxpayers.

Contact Us:

Department of Communication and Creative Arts

Purdue University Calumet
Hammond, Indiana
46323-2094, USA

Telephone:
219-989-2880 or
219-989-2393
Fax: 219-989-2008

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gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers,
quietly building new structures."
-- John F. Kennedy

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You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one."
-- John Lennon