Burning question: is the media a weapon of war?
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Media: The lingering fate of the hostage Kenneth Bigley has dominated recent news reports. Despite criticisms that the headlines are promoting the fundamentalistsâ agenda, last weekâs footage of Bigley
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ROME, Oct 29 (IPS) - When you hear "alternative media," it is  often alongside such words as "collective,"  "citizen-oriented," and "public." But what does  it have to do with journalism? And how influential are groups  like Indymedia, which recently had some of its computers seized?
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Could these events signal a new trend in journalism?
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Some in Iraq question how and why war is being waged.
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THE Nuremberg Trials suggested that the German people and media were to blame for not standing up to the Nazi Party. Will history make the same argument against the British and the UK media for not standing up to Tony Blair and New Labour?   Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction.
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By Jim DeBrosse Staff Writer  For parents losing the war against children who spend too much time in front of TVs, video games and computers, there are high- tech weapons available to fight back.
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As in war, there&#39;s plenty of fog and smoke on the political battlefield that makes it hard to see what&#39;s going on. But there is one place in particular that you can go and cut through the competing messages and find a least a kernel of truth.
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Iraqi sniper claims soldiers' lives Warning: Graphic content Islamic militants may not approve of the West's way of life, but they seem to have no qualms about using the information technology it perfected to spread propaganda.â¦
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Business & money: Media group told to avoid Murdoch newspaper war.
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Comment is free: Phil Harding: Alastair Campbell blames the media for political cynicism, but he had a part in fostering it
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Brazil is a largely pacifist country in South America. Our last war was fought against Paraguay in the 19th century, when we pretty much leveled the then enemy country, once the most developed in the region, today a haven for contrabandists and counterfeiters. There were also some internal conflicts througout brazilian history, a bloody conservative dictatorship in the 20th century - though not as bloody as in Argentina or Chile - and today we witness a daily struggle between police forces and drugs and arms dealers, robbers and the like in big cities. That said, most brazilians wouldn't ever imagine our country going to war nowadays. It's just... Not brazilian! The september 11 attacks on World Trade Center and the Pentagon were a shock for all of us, as it was for most people in the world. Everything stopped as we held our breath in front of our TV sets. Friends called each other asking "Did you see it? I can't believe!". Most people felt compassion for the dead, their families and all americans. On the other hand, many people did not.
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By Dolbeck, Andrew  The media business is big business. The industry's high potential profits draw investors while high levels of competition drive dealmaking and consolidation.
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ROME, Oct 22  (IPS) - Kidnappers' tape tactics in broadcasting  footage of victims has won them  international attention. But are  the media right to broadcast the tapes? Or are they  serving  criminal propaganda?
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In the shrinking world of 24-hour global  news, every kidnapping and atrocity can present a painful  ethical dilemma for the media -- does depicting these horrors  turn them into tools of the perpetrators?
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By ANNE RAVANA; OF THE NEWS STAFF  BANGOR - The U.S. military's ability to handpick members of the media to report on foreign interventions influences the media's characterization of the interventions and in turn, influences public opinion, a University of Maine professor said Monday.
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While troop numbers are surging, the media that cover them are leaking away, worn out by the danger and expense of covering a war that refuses to end.
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Press embargoes may have served a useful purpose at some point, but now they are mostly PR tools. So let the information flow. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg.