Just four days before the 2004 presidential election, a prestigious British medical journal published the results of a rigorous study by Dr. Les Roberts, a widely respected researcher. Roberts concluded that close to 100,000 people had died in the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Most were noncombatant civilians. Many were children.

But that news didn't make the front pages of the major newspapers. It wasn't on the network news. So most voters knew little or nothing about the brutal civilian impact of President George W. Bush's war when they went to the polls.... Read more

In late July, more than 600 people showed up in Monterey, California, to speak at a Federal Communications Commission hearing on ownership concentration in the news media. The participants were a diverse group -- young and old, activists and workers -- but they had a single, consistent message: The mainstream news media were doing a deplorable job of covering the day's most important stories.... Read more