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Suggett: Fighting Corruption of Persecuting Political Prisoners in Venezuela?
Znet Article, April, 15 2010
James Suggett
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As Venezuela heads toward its fifteenth internationally monitored election in ten years, the international media assault against the democratically-elected Chavez government is intensifying. On April 3rd, New York Times correspondent Simon Romero ...
Dimaggio: Tiger Woods, the Decline of News, & the Future of the Left
Znet Article, April, 14 2010
Anthony Dimaggio
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Tiger Woods’ new Nike commercial marks his return to the Masters and his renewed dominance of the television spotlight following a groundswell of attention late last year. Whatever one thinks of Tiger Woods, saturation coverage of this fallen ido...
Schechter: On The Seventh Anniversary of the War On Iraq: Spotty Coverage, A Few Protests, and A Desire to "Move On" To Make It All Disappear
Commentary, March, 21 2010
Danny Schechter
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American media loves anniversaries of major events. They become ideal "news pegs" to do follow-up stories. You would think that they would have pulled out the stops for the seventh anniversary of the US war on Iraq, a war that was described by the...
Weisbrot: International Campaign Around Venezuela's Elections Has Begun
Znet Article, March, 19 2010
Mark Weisbrot
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Venezuela has an election for its National Assembly in September, and the campaign has begun in earnest. I am referring to the international campaign. This is carried out largely through the international media, although some will spill over into ...
Friel: Andrew Revkin’s Climate Centrism
Znet Article, March, 17 2010
Howard Friel
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In his 2001 book, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World, Bjorn Lomborg argued that the real state of the world’s environment was better than what the major environmental organizations and scientists have reported. T...
Pilger: Welcome to the world's first Murdochracy
Commentary, March, 12 2010
John Pilger
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Adelaide is Australia's festival city. Its arts festival is currently in swing. Polite debate, aesthetics and high-octane wine are putting the world to rights. With one exception. Adelaide is where Rupert Murdoch began his empire. The voracious tr...
Friel: Lomborg’s Public Diplomacy, Part 1/5
Znet Article, March, 12 2010
Howard Friel
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Given his public diplomacy skills, if Bjorn Lomborg had worked for the Bush-Cheney White House, the world might still be thinking that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. This is because there has never been any evidence to supp...
Emersberger: The Canadian Princes of Bel Air
Znet Article, March, 11 2010
Joe Emersberger
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Allegations against Aristide and his supporters have never been in short supply – especially those spread by the Canadian funded "human rights group" – RNDDH. However, a funny thing happened when these cases above were, very belatedly, tested in c...
Dimaggio: Manufactured Dissent
Znet Article, March, 09 2010
Anthony Dimaggio
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Global warming has graduated to the status of one of the great enduring political issues of our time. Unfortunately, public discourse has taken a dramatic step backward in light of corporate media’s attacks against the scientific community. Scie...
Abu Jamal: Corporate Supremacy -- Still!
Commentary, March, 07 2010
Mumia Abu Jamal
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The recent Supreme Court decision on corporate personhood, The Citizen's United case, has evoked considerable comment, and even some indignation: "Corporations have the right to spend unlimited amounts of money on politicians?!" - "outrageous!"
Cook: Ethan Bronner and conflicts of interest
Znet Article, February, 26 2010
Jonathan Cook
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A recent assignment of mine covering Israel’s presumed links to the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh provoked some more thoughts about the New York Times reporter Ethan Bronner. He is the Jerusalem bureau chief who has been at the ...
Shapiro: 5 Years for the Bil’in Struggle - The Myth of Toppling the Fence
Blog Post, February, 23 2010
Tali Shapiro
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How could it be that we were able to reach the fence in such numbers, discover the electricity is off and that the army isn’t at its post, take as long as we did in pulling it down, discover the gate isn’t locked, dance and wave flags on the army ...
Street: Colonial War Media: Reflections on a Recent Issue of the New York Times
Znet Article, February, 20 2010
Paul Street
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Yes, the colonials are coming at “our” brave young troops with live ammunition. What next? I wonder if Chivers and his editors ever heard the following bit from the admittedly arch-cynical comedian George Carlin’s 2005 “Life is Worth Losing” show:...
Jensen: NY Times: No conflict of interest - with the conventional wisdom
Commentary, February, 13 2010
Robert Jensen
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The New York Times' public editor wrestled this week with conflict-of-interest charges sparked by the revelation that Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner's son had joined the Israeli army. The executive editor of the paper responded with a sensib...
Jensen: Great television/bad journalism: Media failures in Haiti coverage
Commentary, January, 26 2010
Robert Jensen
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CNN's star anchor Anderson Cooper narrates a chaotic street scene in Port-au-Prince. A boy is struck in the head by a rock thrown by a looter from a roof. Cooper helps him to the side of the road, and then realizes the boy is disoriented and unabl...
Kozloff: Latin/Middle Eastern Media: A Thorn in the Side of the U.S. Military in Haiti
Znet Article, January, 22 2010
Nikolas Kozloff
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Watch the U.S. media and its coverage of the crisis in Haiti, and you get the impression that Washington is a benevolent power doing its utmost to help with emergency relief in the Caribbean island nation. But tune into al-Jazeera English or South...
Edwards: Nuclear Deceit - The Times And Iran
Znet Article, January, 15 2010
David Edwards
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On December 14, The Times announced that it had obtained documents about Iran’s nuclear program that revealed “a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator. This is the component of a nuclear weapon that triggers the explosionâ€. (Leading art...
Cromwell: Were Afghan Children Executed By Us-Led Forces? And Why Aren't The Media Interested?
Commentary, January, 14 2010
David Cromwell
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Ignoring or downplaying Western crimes is a standard feature of the corporate Western media. On rare occasions when a broadcaster or newspaper breaks ranks and reports 'our' crimes honestly, it is instructive to observe the response from the rest ...
Chomsky: "Direct participation in creativity"
Znet Article, January, 09 2010
Noam Chomsky
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In the middle of September, Noam Chomsky was one of the guests of honor for La Jornada’s twenty-fifth anniversary
Emersberger: Review of Newspeak in the 21rst Century
Znet Article, January, 01 2010
Joe Emersberger
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Medialens is a UK based website founded by David Edwards and David Cromwell that critiques media that progressives are inclined to respect such as the Guardian, the Independent and the BBC...
