Media Advocacy Organizations

About-Face. A San-Francisco group that combats negative and distorted images of women. www.about-face.org

Accuracy in Media. Conservative/right media criticism. www.aim.org

Adbusters/Media Foundation. Liberal/left Canadian group that takes aim at advertising and consumer culture.  www.adbusters.org

Alliance for Community Media. Working to broaden access to electronic media.  www.alliancecm.org

Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers. Resources and advocacy related to independent video and film.  www.aivf.org

Center for Democracy and Technology.  Works for public policies that advance civil liberties and democratic values in communications technologies.  www.cdt.org

Center for Media and Public Affairs. Conservative/right studies of news and entertainment media. www.cmpa.com

Commercial Alert. Helps people defend themselves against harmful, immoral, or intrusive advertising and marketing and the excesses of commercialism. www.essential.org/alert

Committee to Protect Journalists.  Monitors restrictions on press freedoms worldwide.  www.cpj.org

Community Media Workshop. Helps Chicago community groups get access to media. www.newstips.org

Council on American Islamic Relations. Includes “media watch” project. www.cair.com/

Electronic Civil Disobedience. Advocates using the Internet for direct action. www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html

Electronic Frontier Foundation. Works to protect free speech on the Internet. www.eff.org

Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting. Liberal/left media watch group. www.fair.org.

Institute for Public Accuracy. Liberal/left alternatives to mainstream and conservative pundits and “experts.” www.accuracy.org

Media Access Project. Fights for the public’s First Amendment right to hear and be heard on the electronic media of today and tomorrow. www.mediaaccess.org

Media Action Network for Asian Americans. Works for accurate, balanced, and sensitive Asian American images. www.janet.org/~manaa

Media Matters for America. Liberal/left media criticism. www.mediamatters.org

Media Research Center. Conservative/right group that aims to “neutralize the left-wing media.” www.mediaresearch.org

Media Scope. Advocates for constructive media depictions of health and social issues. www.mediascope.org

Minnesota News Council. Promotes media fairness through public accountability. www.mtn.org/newscncl

Morality in Media. Conservative “interfaith” group that combats obscenity in media. www.moralityinmedia.org

National Institute on Media and the Family. Resources about the impact of the media on children and families. www.medianadthefamily.org

Parents Television Council. Conservative group advocating more family-friendly programming. www.parentstv.org

Progressive Media Project. To give voice to those in diverse communities who have been shut out of the mainstream media. www.progressive.org/mediaproj.htm

Radio 4 All. Directory of sites related to the microbroadcasting movement www.radio4all.org

The Representation Project. Works to create a world free of limiting stereotypes and social injustices. www.therepresentationproject.org

Rocky Mountain Media Watch. Citizen action to challenge big media. www.bigmedia.org