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Schechter: The Media Shift From Them To Us
Commentary, May, 15 2006
Danny Schechter
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LONDON, MAY 8: The brilliant novelist and media- maker Afshin Rattansi opens his provocative London novel, "The Dream of the Decade," with this quote from the Italian dissident Antonio Gramsci: "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the o...
Herman: Milosevic's Death in the Propaganda System
Znet Article, May, 14 2006
Edward Herman
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[Published in Z Magazine (May, 2006), in a slightly abridged version and without footnotes.] The March 11 death of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in his prison cell in The Hague was greeted by Western political circles and media al...
Chomsky: Subordinate and Non-Subordinate States
Znet Article, May, 08 2006
Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky, whom the New York Times has called “arguably the most important intellectual alive,†was voted the leading living public intellectual in The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll conducted by the British magazine P...
Schechter: News Dissector To Press: Investigate Credit Squeeze
Znet Article, April, 28 2006
Danny Schechter
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When I started out, my film was going to be about other people’s economic woes. Pretty soon I realized I was part of this story of how the credit industry targets poor and middle-class Americans. Not only was I a target, too, but all of us...
Schechter: Fight "Fake News" AND Phony Newscasts
Commentary, April, 25 2006
Danny Schechter
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New York, April 11, 2006: By all means, lets support the campaign against "Fake News" on TV. That's a reference to the undisclosed use by local news outlets of PR company produced ads dressed up to look like news. A study by the Center for Media a...
Chomsky: On Hegemony And Disarmament
Znet Article, April, 09 2006
Noam Chomsky
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IN a world full of ruthless economics, fanaticism, dogmatism, aggressive sectarianism and, most of all, terrorism and violence, our survival depends, in the words of Vaclav Havel, the former President of Czechoslovakia, on the "degree to which we ...
Schechter: The Fear Is In The Room: Inside Our Unbrave Media World
Commentary, April, 08 2006
Danny Schechter
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NEW YORK-There is a scene in the movie Good Night and Good Luck about an outbreak of insecurity that nearly ended the late CBS News legend's broadcast challenge to red-hunting Senator Joe McCarthy before it aired.
Herman: Uncle Chutzpah and His Willing Executioners on the Dire Iran Threat: With Twelve Principles of War Propaganda in Ongoing Service
Znet Article, March, 15 2006
Edward Herman
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Back at the time of a major Bush-1 "drug war" in 1989, Hodding Carter pointed out that with increasing attention to the newly declared "crisis" by the administration and media, the public's estimate of the importance of the drug problem rose spect...
Schechter: Tony Soprano And Iraq
Znet Article, March, 13 2006
Danny Schechter
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"Violence is as American as Cherry Pie."…H.Rap Brown As the Sopranos return to the airwaves for a new season, the likeable Lorraine Bracco who plays show shrink Dr, Melfi was on the Colbert report suggesting that the HBO drama has one soc...
Chomsky: The Long View
Znet Article, March, 08 2006
Noam Chomsky
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Staunton: First of all, I wanted to clear something up. I understand that some remarks you made about Bertie Ahern and "shoe shining" may have been reported inaccurately.Chomsky: The Press Association story on December 26th said that on his way to...
Schechter: AbramoffÕs White Man's Burden
Commentary, February, 26 2006
Danny Schechter
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Chomsky: Korea and International Affairs
Znet Article, February, 22 2006
Noam Chomsky
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SUN WOO LEE: How is your health? NOAM CHOMSKY: I am fine, as you can see. SUN WOO LEE: Is there any recent issue of interest related to Korea which you have been following? NOAM CHOMSKY: Korea is playing a very significant role in world affa...
Schechter: Media Incitement Inflames The Middle East
Commentary, February, 08 2006
Danny Schechter
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Mediachannel.org
Schechter: After Hamas' Win: Fundamentalist Wars There And Here
Commentary, February, 04 2006
Danny Schechter
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New York, January 30: A battle between fundamentalism and the freedom of a secular society is being waged in many parts of the world-including inside the United States. In other countries, our media is quick to identify religious forces as anti-de...
Chomsky: Irish Times Interview
Znet Article, January, 24 2006
Noam Chomsky
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Q First of all, I wanted to clear something up. I understand that some remarks you made about Bertie Ahern and “shoe shining †may have been reported inaccurately. A The Press Association story on December 26th said that on his wa...
Chomsky: On the Iraq Election
Znet Article, December, 27 2005
Noam Chomsky
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Andy Clark: Let's start off by talking about the elections in Iraq. Let's hear how President Bush was billing them just a few days ahead of the vote. President Bush: "By helping Iraqis build a strong democracy, we're adding to our own security an...
Schechter: News About News
Znet Article, December, 27 2005
Danny Schechter
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Perhaps it's just me-but news seems to be coming our way faster and with a greater fury than ever before. A tsunami of "Breaking News" bulletins courses through the veins and ganglia of what passes for an information system. A corporate news syste...
Chomsky: On Fake News and Other Societal Woes
Znet Article, December, 22 2005
Noam Chomsky
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Interviewer: This is Irene from No One's Listening, but in honor of your appearance on the show today we're entitling it Noam's listening. Chomsky: Oh, well, that's nice. Interviewer: So our show today is about video news releases. Chomsky: Vi...
Schechter: Media Scandals Across the Arab Western Divide
Znet Article, December, 12 2005
Danny Schechter
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Shock and awe has given way to a shocking media scandal of the week in Iraq. The latest revelations of pay for play journalism, admitted now to some degree by the Pentagon, is that US government funds are going to pay...
Chomsky: Q/A on the Iraq War
Znet Article, November, 29 2005
Noam Chomsky
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Q/A on the Iraq War
