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Chomsky: Imperial Presidency
Zmag Article, February, 01 2005
Noam Chomsky
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I t goes without saying that what happens in the U.S. has an enormous impact on the rest of the world—and conversely: what happens in the rest of the world cannot fail to have an impact on the U.S., in several wa...
Schechter: Covering Elections There, Miscovering Them Here
Znet Article, January, 11 2005
Danny Schechter
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NEW YORK, January 10, 2005 -- Elections are breaking out all over. The Palestinians voted yesterday in a irregularity-plagued day of balloting. In the Ukraine, they needed two elections to get it right. And at month's end Iraqis will go to the pol...
Schechter: Media Crisis 2004: Summing Up and Moving Forward
Commentary, January, 08 2005
Danny Schechter
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NEW YORK, December 17, 2004 -- It is that time of the year again, the time for closing out the news year, a time of summing up, and looking ahead. A year ago, at this time, I wrote:
Schechter: Helicopter Journalism
Znet Article, January, 06 2005
Danny Schechter
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NEW YORK, January 5, 2005 -- The lead story from Aceh in today's Washington Post is vivid: The subhead offers its vantage point "Above Indonesia. "LAMNO, Indonesia, Jan. 4 -- From the skies above Aceh's devastated western coastline, no sign of civ...
Herman: “They Kill Reporters, Don't They?”
Zmag Article, January, 01 2005
Edward Herman
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I t has long been a problem for the U.S. imperial establishment that using their ever-improving arsenal of death, in projecting power from Vietnam to Iraq, kills large numbers of target state civilians, in violation of...
Chomsky: The Non-Election of 2004
Zmag Article, January, 01 2005
Noam Chomsky
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T he elections of November 2004 have received a great deal of discussion, with exultation in some quarters, despair in others, and general lamentation about a “divided nation.” They are likely to have polic...
Schechter: The Fight for Docu-Democracy
Commentary, December, 23 2004
Danny Schechter
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NEW YORK -- 2004 has been called the Year of Documentaries.
Klein: Evidence, Mr. Ambassador?
Znet Article, December, 05 2004
Naomi Klein
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David T Johnson, Acting ambassador, US Embassy, London Dear Mr Johnson, On November 26, your press counsellor sent a letter to the Guardian taking strong exception to a sentence in my column of the same day. The sentence read: "In Iraq, US force...
Klein: Kerry and the Gift of Impunity
Znet Article, December, 01 2004
Naomi Klein
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Iconic images inspire love and hate, and so it is with the photograph of James Blake Miller, the 20-year-old Marine from Appalachia who has been christened "the face of Falluja" by prowar pundits and "The Marlboro Man" by pretty much everyone else...
Schechter: When Wolves Attack: A Pre-Mortem on Election Coverage
Commentary, October, 29 2004
Danny Schechter
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NEW YORK, October 25, 2004 -- In it's final days, Campaign 2004 has become even nastier. At the core of this devolution of our politics process sits the campaign media -- a mob of reporters too overworked to stray from the campaigns' master script...
Chomsky: Myth of the Liberal Media
Blog Post, October, 28 2004
Noam Chomsky
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The media delight in being portrayed as "adversarial," sometimes even going overboard in their efforts to subvert power. There are some remarkable examples, e.g., the Freedom House study of how the liberal crusading press lost the Vietnam war by ...
Schechter: Is Our Media Covering Its Errors Or Covering Them Up?
Znet Article, August, 16 2004
Danny Schechter
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NEW YORK, AUGUST 16: As more mainstream media outlets admit their failures in covering the Iraq War, a question must be asked: are we seeing a real coming to grips with the media role that helped "sell the war" to the American public? Or could the...
Schechter: Iraq Scandals
Znet Article, July, 19 2004
Danny Schechter
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Iraq Scandals
Schechter: Making the Myth, Forgetting the Man
Commentary, June, 08 2004
Danny Schechter
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NEW YORK, June 7, 2004 -- In the bad old days of the Cold War, we would learn that a Russian leader died when their TV screens went dark and martial music was all that we heard. Afterwards, their channels filled with non-stop accolades and tribute...
Herman: Beyond Doublespeak: Iraq & Israel
Zmag Article, June, 01 2004
Edward Herman
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B ush, Sharon, and the media are steadily breaking new ground in the use of language to put aggression, pacification, ethnic clean- sing, and the disregard for law and elementary decency in a good ...
Herman: The Cruise Missile Left (part 5):
Commentary, May, 18 2004
Edward Herman
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Establishment politicians, media, and intellectuals use the word genocide with great abandon, but with a hugely politicized selectivity. It is an invidious word, like terrorism, so that attaching it to an enemy and target is helpful in demonizing,...
Herman: The Cruise Missile Left (part 5):
Znet Article, May, 17 2004
Edward Herman
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Establishment politicians, media, and intellectuals use the word genocide with great abandon, but with a hugely politicized selectivity. It is an invidious word, like terrorism, so that attaching it to an enemy and target is helpful in demonizing,...
Schechter: Media stood silent when torture first came to light
Znet Article, May, 10 2004
Danny Schechter
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NEW YORK, May 10, 2004 -- With Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's announcement of an "independent review" board to examine the "abuse" of Iraqi prisoners, we now have three self-described "independent" panels at work. All are stuffed with insi...
Goodman: Behind the Scenes at
Znet Article, April, 25 2004
Amy Goodman
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Behind the Scenes at
Schechter: Misreporting 911:
Znet Article, April, 15 2004
Danny Schechter
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NEW YORK April 12: Janet Jackson went from being a cartoon on TV to playing one this past weekend. The singer who outraged one America with her "costume malfunction" during a Superbowl half-time show giving new meaning to the phrase "boob tube,"...
