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Chomsky: Master Mind
Znet Article, November, 15 2005
Noam Chomsky
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Three weeks ago, Prof. Noam Chomsky was voted the most important public intellectual in the world today. About 20,000 people took part in the poll, which was conducted jointly by a British monthly called Prospect and the Washington-based Foreign P...
Chomsky: Chomsky Answers Guardian
Znet Article, November, 13 2005
Noam Chomsky
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This is an open letter to a few of the people with whom I had discussed the Guardian interview of 31 October, on the basis of the electronic version, which is all that I had seen. Someone has just sent me a copy of the printed version, and I now ...
Schechter: How To Confront The Media
Commentary, November, 10 2005
Danny Schechter
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The idea of confronting the media is a popular one. Dissatisfaction with the devolution of TV News is widespread. Disgust with big media is everywhere even if it sometimes expresses itself with a mistaken belief that the problem is a non-existent ...
Schechter: Beyond An Encyclopedia: What's Next For Wikimania?
Commentary, October, 12 2005
Danny Schechter
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FRANKFURT, GERMANY AUGUST 9 -- In l995, Ward Cunningham, a pioneering Portland, Oregon-based software engineer, had an epiphany and found a name for it. He had used the web to build a productive community of fellow techies who came up with new ide...
Schechter: Time To Also March On The Media?
Commentary, September, 24 2005
Danny Schechter
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That time has come again.
Schechter: Where News About The News Is In The News
Znet Article, August, 28 2005
Danny Schechter
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LONDON, AUGUST 29: A trip to London can be a tonic to media critics like myself who at times despair that the last thing the media in this country discusses is itself. In contrast, the media in London sometimes treats media issues as a font page s...
Goodman: Lockdown
Znet Article, August, 27 2005
Amy Goodman
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Imagine living, eating, sleeping, relieving ...
Solomon: Rove/Blumenthal
Znet Article, July, 18 2005
Norman Solomon
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Sidney Blumenthal, a former assistant and senior advisor to President Clinton, takes on Norman Solomon of the Institute for Public Accuracy and author of "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death" on Iraq, the Democrats,...
Schechter: Searching For Truth In The Karl Rove Story
Znet Article, July, 18 2005
Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page
New York, July 18: How do we suss out truth from the coverage of the Karl Rove leakgate scandal in a time of deliberate obfuscation and hair-splitting , with endless ways on all sides to avoid and obscure reality? Martin Luther King Jr. used to ...
Schechter: CNN At 25: "the World's Most Trusted Network"
Commentary, June, 13 2005
Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page
CNN went on the air twenty five years ago this June 1 from the basement of what had been the a Jewish country club in Atlanta, The UN flag was flying overhead as Ted Turner proclaimed his cable revolution with the announcement that the channel tha...
Herman: Daniel Okrent's Revealing Closeout as Public Editor of the New York Times
Znet Article, May, 24 2005
Edward Herman
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In his final column as Public Editor of the New York Times, Daniel Okrent discusses "13 Things I Meant to Write About but Never Did" (May 22, 2005). His list is interesting for what it tells about Okrent's biases, and indirectly those of his boss...
Schechter: Watch Out World: Al-jazeera Is Going Global
Commentary, May, 18 2005
Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page
Doha, Qatar: If Doha Is the capital of the state of Qatar (pronounced Cut-ter) known for its 900 trillion standard cubic feet of proven gas reserves (and more than 15.2 BILLION barrels of oil) Al-Jazeera is known here as" the Capitol of Doha," In ...
Schechter: Meet Me In St Louis 2005
Znet Article, May, 11 2005
Danny Schechter
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NEW YORK, May 8: What would the makers of the MGM classic "Meet Me in St Louis" think of the conclave planned next weekend in St 'Louie' in that Red State many call 'Missoura.' The 1944 movie featured songs by Judy Garland depicting a slice of 190...
Herman: The New York Times Supports Thought Control: The Massad Case
Commentary, April, 16 2005
Edward Herman
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The New York Times has never been a very courageous newspaper in times of political hysteria and threats to civil liberties. When Bertrand Russell was denied the right to fill his appointment at CCNY in 1940, following an ugly campaign by a rightw...
Schechter: Miscovering Anti-war Protest (again)
Commentary, March, 26 2005
Danny Schechter
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Schechter: The Passion Of Giuliana Sgrena
Commentary, March, 16 2005
Danny Schechter
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Italian Journalist Giuliana Sgrena became an icon in Iraq, a role model of a caring journalist of conscience kidnapped by parties unknown. He plight mobilized the people of Italy with virtually the whole county demanding her release.
Schechter: Where Was The Press When This Was Going On?
Commentary, February, 23 2005
Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page
Perhaps now that "the Gates" have festooned themselves across New York's Central Park, we can bid adieu to the use of that term to connote political scandal. After Watergate, begat Contragate, we have had a cloned procession of almost obligatorily...
Herman: The Election In Iraq:
Znet Article, February, 13 2005
Edward Herman
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The Earlier Demonstration Elections In our 1984 book Demonstration Elections: U.S.-Staged Elections In The Dominican Republic, Vietnam, and El Salvador, Frank Brodhead and I stressed that such elections were mainly designed to placate (and misle...
Schechter: Exclusive: The State Of The Media Address
Commentary, February, 09 2005
Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page
(Disclosure: Mediachanel.org obtained this document from usually unimpeachable sources. We cannot verify it. One document expert we consulted opined that its font style and syntax bears an uncanny resemblance to work written on the G 4 Mac Powerbo...
Herman: Studies in Hypocrisy From the F-Word to the New York Times
Zmag Article, February, 01 2005
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
T he hypocrisy that runs deep in this culture is amusingly illustrated by the fact that while the F-word has become standard operating language, especially under conditions of emotion or stress, and for the political r...
