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Cronan: Recent Violence in Lebanon: Selective Media Amnesia
Blog Post, May, 20 2008
John Cronan
Cronan's ZSpace page
The AP recently reported of the worst violence in Lebeanon since their civil war. But is this really the case?
Chomsky: CNN’s Michael Ware on Iraq
Blog Post, May, 17 2008
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
I doubt that Ware has anything like the direct experience in Iraq of Nir Rosen, Patrick Cockburn, and the few other journalist who actually know the country well. But put that aside.
Solomon: War Made Easy
Video, May, 07 2008
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
When The New York Times published its explosive "Pentagon Pundits" story on April 20, the result was a wave of criticism directed at the Defense Department for manipulating TV news coverage of the Iraq war. Critics also faulted the networks for fa...
Peterson: "O wretched countrymen!"
Blog Post, May, 07 2008
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
When I first read that long (7,500-word) report in the April 20 New York Times about how the "Bush administration has used its control over access and information in an effort to transform"
Berlet: Right-Wing Witch Hunts, Then and Now
Zmag Article, May, 01 2008
Chip Berlet
Berlet's ZSpace page
Debbie Almontaser and Hallie Flanagan were both targeted by public witch hunts for their educational and cultural activities. Both were smeared by small-minded xenophobic right-wingers. Both stood up to their accusers. Both belong in the Bill of R...
Barker: The Democracy Manipulators
Znet Article, April, 25 2008
Michael Barker
Barker's ZSpace page
Based in Colombia the New Journalism Foundation – known locally as the Fundación para un Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI) – was set up in late 2004 as a nonprofit organization for training professional journalists.
Spannos: Reviewing Pentagon Propaganda & The New York Times
Blog Post, April, 22 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
The Sunday edition of the New York Times ran a very candid cover story about a carefully orchestrated Pentagon propaganda campaign masquerading as objective journalism in the form of military analysts appearing on Fox News, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, and...
Young: Our Good Intentions in Iraq: More Imperialist Assumptions in Liberal Criticism of the Invasion/Occupation
Blog Post, April, 17 2008
Kevin Young
Young's ZSpace page
The implicit or explicit attribution of good intentions to political leaders has been common to most critical commentary on the Iraq occupation. Just as in corporatist and Fascist societies of the past, this assumption helps reinforce the illusion...
Young: Orientalism in Full Force: Edward Said, Liberals, and Iraq
Blog Post, April, 09 2008
Kevin Young
Young's ZSpace page
A critique of certain Orientalist and paternalist tendencies in liberal "criticism" of the war in Iraq, most notably that criticism's disdain for Iraqi opinion.
Albert: Greek Political Forum Interview 1/9
Video, April, 07 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
This is the introduction and the first in a series of questions and answers...
Herman: Safari Journalism
Zmag Article, April, 02 2008
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
At the center of Schindler’s analysis is his detailed showing that Izetbegovic was an Islamic fundamentalist, who at no time favored a multi-ethnic tolerant state, but always kept this hidden from the gullible and bamboozled Western pundits.
Chomsky: Interventions Interview
Znet Article, March, 19 2008
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Discussion about his book, media, international relations, etc.
Bennis: Winter Soldier: Has Corporate Media Forgotten Iraq?
Video, March, 18 2008
Phyllis Bennis
Bennis's ZSpace page
On loss of interest in the Iraq war...
Cromwell: Israeli Deaths Matter More
Znet Article, March, 11 2008
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
The horrific shooting of eight young people at a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem last Thursday was followed by saturation media coverage. International statesmen lined up with condemnations of the attack and condolences for the victims and their fami...
Spannos: ZNet Interview for "The Protest"
Blog Post, March, 09 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
An intreview about ZNet for Northwestern University's campus magazine “The Protest.”
Emersberger: The Failure of Human Rights Watch in Venezuela and Haiti
Znet Article, March, 05 2008
Joe Emersberger
Emersberger's ZSpace page
The way Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Haiti and Venezuela in its 2008 World Report reveals an underlying assumption that the US and its allies have the right to overthrow democratic governments.[1]
Friel: The New York Times and Gaza
Znet Article, March, 03 2008
Howard Friel
Friel's ZSpace page
During the first two months of 2008, Israeli security forces killed 146 Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, 42 of which did not participate in fighting. During the same period, Palestinians killed one member of the Israeli security forces an...
Herman: Neither Popular Government Nor Popular Information
Zmag Article, March, 01 2008
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
One of my favorite quotations, from James Madison in 1822, is that “a popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both” (this was used as the title of Nichols ...
Chomsky: "Good News," Iraq and Beyond
Znet Article, February, 15 2008
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Not long ago, it was taken for granted that the Iraq war would be the central issue in the presidential campaign, as it was in the mid-term election of 2006. But it has virtually disappeared, eliciting some puzzlement. There should be none.
Dominick: Cherry Picking Coverage of Iraq Tragedy
Blog Post, February, 02 2008
Brian Dominick
Dominick's ZSpace page
On yesterday's car bombing, CNN defers to US sources when convenient while the AP interprets the tragedy as evidence of US success.
