American Hellenic Media Project

Our webhosting organization removed the American Hellenic Media Project's (AHMP) website in 2005 for unknown reasons. Although AHMP has been inactive since 2001, there has been continued interest in the project's work and the website's content. The website has therefore been reconstructed, not only for educational and archival purposes but because much of the content continues to be relevant to current events, media integrity and human rights issues.

The recent shift by U.S. policymakers and key interest groups away from a markedly pro-Turkey posture--due in large part to Turkey's ineffectiveness in the Iraq War, popular opposition in Turkey to Israeli policies, and fallout from Turkey's rejection from EU admission--appears to have substantially reduced related disinformation and media bias. However, America's war footing and unilateralism, its isolationist posture, and its increased ideological polarization internally have raised greater threats to reliable and objective media coverage. This website is being reconstructed in the hope that AHMP's work, spanning the course of nearly a decade, can shed light on the process of systematic media misnformation, and especially on the power that citizens have to combat it.

-- P.D. Spyropoulos, August 22, 2007

The American Hellenic Media Project is a grass-roots, non-profit think tank whose purposes are:

to confront discrimination and bias in the media;

to encourage independent, ethical and responsible journalism;

to confront misograecism in the media, and to address the negative posture of our nation's press and media towards issues of concern to the Hellenic, Armenian and Orthodox Christian communities;

to address false historical revisionism and genocide denial in the media and the academic community regarding Armenian, Hellenic, Eastern Christian, Balkan and other histories;

to harness the Internet and other new communications technologies for the purpose of encouraging a freer flow of information and fostering greater civic participation in the formation and discourse of news and ideas;

to inform the media establishment, the entertainment industry and the academic community about issues of concern to Hellenic and other Americans, and to engage these institutions in an open dialogue concerning these issues; and

to advocate for an open, contemporary, and progressive press and media environment that encourages democratic and humanitarian values, international peace and stability, non-aggression, the protection of minority and individual human rights, the adherence to international law, the non-violent resolution of disputes, and the belief in the inalienable dignity of every individual regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or beliefs.

What prominent scholars, journalists, authors and political analysts are saying about AHMP

Check out our published letters, opinion-editorials and commentaries

Greeks as "ethnic hysterics": racist stereotyping in the service of political agendas

Addressing the New York Times' reluctance to recognize the genocide of the Greek population of Turkey:
four articles from the New York Times contemporary to the Asia Minor Holocaust of 1922

Editorializing Intolerance - The New York Times' book review headline, "Loving The Unlovable Greeks", and image of Greeks fighting

The American Hellenic Media Project and its volunteers wish to extend our sincerest condolences to those victimized by the recent acts of terror on American soil and to all victims of terrorist, state-sponsored and other organized violence throughout the world.

A Crisis Unresolved: Changing Course in Our China Policy (Army Times, Marine Times, South Bend Tribune - published April / May 2001)

Vietnam, Cyprus and Wartime Atrocities - Senator Kerrey's search for atonement (New York Newsday, The Oklahoma Gazette, The Colorado Springs Independent, The Western Queens Gazette - published May 2001)

Media Alert: AHMP Calls For Andy Rooney's Dismissal For Racist Remarks Against Greeks and Immigrants (posted June 2001)

The Problem with Balkan Revisionism; Washington Post and Daily Telegraph advance revisionist views regarding ancient Macedonia and Albanian irredentism (posted April 2001)

Understanding The Cyprus Tragedy - article exposes history, and delves into heart, of Cyprus problem

A glimpse into the modern machinery of genocide denial
Microsoft pressured by Turkish government to deny Armenian Genocide
Congress successfully pressured by Turkish government to deny Armenian Genocide

Phantom Terror: Is Greece Among The World's Top Terrorist States?

Website index

About the American Hellenic Media Project (AHMP)

Hall of Shame: examples of media disinformation, false historical revisionism, and anti-Hellenic bias

Media Alert!

Published items

Articles, essays and op-eds

Recent submissions to the media

Announcements

Submissions classified by media source (not updated)

Submissions classified by topic (not updated)

Add your e-mail address to our distribution list, should there be any future e-mailings, with the subject heading "Add e-mail to AHMP distribution list", to ahmp@ahmp.org.
Suggest us to a friend or colleague, or forward their name and e-mail address for inclusion in our distribution list.

It is important that each one of us take the initiative to let the media know that we are listening. Individual letters, letter-writing campaigns, telephone calls to editors, and other responses to inaccurate, biased or otherwise inappropriate media items are greatly encouraged.

You can e-mail the American Hellenic Media Project at:

ahmp@ahmp.org

Please note that AHMP is no longer active

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