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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...
Solomon: Ted Koppel at NPR
Znet Article, January, 18 2006
Norman Solomon
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No doubt many people are glad that Ted Koppel will become a regular voice on National Public Radio. He recently ended 25 years with ABC's "Nightline" show amid profuse media accolades. But what kind of journalist goes out of his way to voice ferve...
Cromwell: Point of No Return?
Znet Article, January, 18 2006
David Cromwell
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Billions Will Die The Independent and the Independent on Sunday (IoS) pride themselves on their environmental coverage. No doubt their editors will indicate today's dramatic front page as a case in point. The paper depicts the Earth from space ov...
Edwards: Bambi Journalism
Znet Article, January, 09 2006
David Edwards
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Bambi Journalism
Street: The People Are Unfit to Rule: The Ideological Meaning of Maury Povich and Jerry Springer
Znet Article, January, 03 2006
Paul Street
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One morning last Fall I witnessed a mass-cultural war crime in the comfort of my own living room: The Maury Povich Show. It was an engrossing episode. A married couple was waiting for Povich’s paternity testers to come in with the verdi...
Edwards: The Insane Society
Znet Article, December, 14 2005
David Edwards
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In his classic book, The Sane Society, published in 1955, psychologist Erich Fromm proposed that, not just individuals, but entire societies "may be lacking in sanity". Fromm argued that one of the most deceptive features of social life involves "...
Podur: Aristide the Film
Znet Article, December, 13 2005
Justin Podur
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Review: Aristide and the Endless Revolution. 2005. Baraka Productions. 83 min. Movie site: www.aristidethefilm.com Available from www.firstrunfeatures.com Each fact is disputed. Haiti’s President, Jean Bertrand Aristide, was overthrown ...
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...
Solomon: Hidden in Plane Sight: U.S. Media Dodging Air War in Iraq
Znet Article, December, 07 2005
Norman Solomon
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The U.S. government is waging an air war in Iraq. “In recent months, the tempo of American bombing seems to have increased,†Seymour Hersh reported in the Dec. 5 edition of The New Yorker. “Most of the targets appear to be ...
Gberie: A Dirty War in West Africa
Znet Article, December, 07 2005
Lansana Gberie
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Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, “A Dirty War in West Africa†is about? What is it trying to communicate? Gberie: The book is about the very brutal, nihilistic conflict that ravaged the small West African state of Si...
Fisk: The Great War for Civilization
Znet Article, December, 07 2005
Robert Fisk
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Robert Fisk is one of the world's best known journalists. He has been based in the Middle East as the UK Independent's Middle East correspondent for nearly 30 years, during which he has reported on two U.S. wars in Iraq, two Afghan wars, the Israe...
Weisbrot: Venezuelan Elections
Znet Article, December, 03 2005
Mark Weisbrot
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The decision of four opposition parties in Venezuela to withdraw from elections this weekend raises important questions for the media. It is clear to anyone familiar with the situation that this is an attempt to discredit the election, by parties ...
Chomsky: Q/A on the Iraq War
Znet Article, November, 29 2005
Noam Chomsky
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Q/A on the Iraq War
Pilger: A News Revolution Has Begun
Znet Article, November, 25 2005
John Pilger
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The Indian writer Vandana Shiva has called for an "insurrection of subjugated knowledge". The insurrection is well under way. In trying to make sense of a dangerous world, millions of people are turning away from the traditional sources of news an...
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...
Zunes: Bush Again Resorts to Fear-Mongering to Justify Iraq Policy
Znet Article, November, 04 2005
Stephen Zunes
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President George W. Bush's October 6 address at the National Endowment for Democracy illustrated his administration's increasingly desperate effort to justify the increasingly unpopular U.S. war in Iraq. The speech focused upon the Bush administra...
Solomon: Media at a Huge Crossroads, 25 Years After Reagan's Triumph
Znet Article, October, 24 2005
Norman Solomon
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By a twist of political fate, the Oct. 28 deadline for special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to take action on the Plamegate matter is exactly 25 years after the only debate of the presidential race between Ronald Reagan and incumbent Jimmy Carter. H...
Pilger: The Silence of Writers
Znet Article, October, 16 2005
John Pilger
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In 1988, the English literary critic and novelist, D.J. Taylor wrote a seminal piece entitled 'When the Pen Sleeps'. He expanded this into a book 'A Vain Conceit', in which he wondered why the English novel so often denigrated into 'drawing room t...
Pilger: Suharto to Iraq
Znet Article, October, 15 2005
John Pilger
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"The propagandist’s purpose,†wrote Aldous Huxley, “is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.†The British, who invented modern war propaganda and inspired Joseph Goebbels, wer...
Street: Framing Katrina
Znet Article, September, 13 2005
Paul Street
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The Personal brilliant and prolific left sociologist C. Wright Mills once said that the core purpose of meaningful analytical work on social and political affairs was to make relevant connections between individual pain and structural inequality. ...
