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Solomon: Npr And The Fallow Triumph Of Public Radio
Znet Article, April, 19 2002
Norman Solomon
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A triumphant story about National Public Radio appeared in late March on the front page of Current, the main newspaper of the public-broadcasting industry. "NPR Lands Most Listeners Ever," the headline announced, over a summary of the latest Arbit...
Solomon: American Journalism: A Class Act
Commentary, April, 18 2002
Norman Solomon
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Like most people, American journalists are apt to look at the very rich with awe. Names like Bill Gates, George Soros and Warren Buffett have the ring of modern-day royalty -- high above the rest of us, and maybe even vaguely immortal.
Fair: U.S. Papers Hail Venezuelan Coup as Pro-Democracy Move
Znet Article, April, 18 2002
Fair
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When elements of the Venezuelan military forced president Hugo Chavez from office last week, the editorial boards of several major U.S. newspapers followed the U.S. government's lead and greeted the news with enthusiasm. In an April 13 editorial, ...
Said: What Israel Has Done
Znet Article, April, 18 2002
Edward Said
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Despite Israel's effort to restrict coverage of its extraordinarily destructive invasion of the West Bank's Palestinian towns and refugee camps, information and images have nevertheless seeped through. The Internet has provided hundreds of verbal ...
Steel: Take me to the Promised Land (the long way)
Znet Article, April, 18 2002
Mark Steel
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At a time when many people complain that politicians are obsessed with spin, it's so refreshing to hear Israeli spokesmen, who refuse to make the slightest concession to PR whatsoever. Asked for their attitude towards the shooting of a baby by an ...
Marcus: A Holiday Of Highs And Lows
Znet Article, April, 18 2002
Yoel Marcus
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Israel's 54th Independence Day has caught us with our national mood at rock bottom. The Promised Land has become the Land of the Security Check - a land in which citizens are afraid to walk the streets. For the first time in many years, the shadow...
Turnipseed: Latin America's Dilemma: Otto Reich's Propaganda is Reminiscent of the Third Reich
Znet Article, April, 18 2002
Tom Turnipseed
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The Bush administration is engaging in damage control for their questionable involvement in the failed 2 day coup against the democratically elected government of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Alarmingly, the ominous Otto Reich is emerging a...
Edwards: Ignorance Is Strength
Znet Article, April, 18 2002
David Edwards
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In his book, The More You Watch, The Less You Know, Mediachannel's Danny Schechter reports a study by the University of Massachusetts, which found that people who relied most on television news coverage knew least about the Gulf War and its origin...
Schechter: What's A Journalist To Do When The Political Gets Personal?
Commentary, April, 17 2002
Danny Schechter
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When you write about the world, or report on what's happening "over there," the issues can seem far away enough to permit disengagement. The distance encourages detachment and objectification.
Schurr: Israel Detains And Beats Civillians And International Observers
Znet Article, April, 17 2002
Kristin Schurr
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I've been sitting with a 15 year old girl, a volunteer for the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees, under a grapefruit tree here in Nablus. Earlier today about 25 internationals and 6 Palestinian UPMRC workers, including 3 medics, a doc...
Leibowitz: Some Israelis Refuse to Serve as the Only Honorable Option
Znet Article, April, 17 2002
Shamai Leibowitz
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Israel's rule over 3 million Palestinian Arabs in the territories has forced it into a position of committing a number of moral outrages. To maintain our rule, we have in the past months committed war crimes, killing and maiming thousands of civil...
Ess: Report from Gaza
Znet Article, April, 17 2002
Kristen Ess
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The Israelis have a political term that isn't applied as much as it should be to the current conflict. 'Tahalikh Medini," means "settling state affairs." Wipe away all of the humanitarian masking on this topic and you are left with Israeli pragmat...
Flanders: Progressives Of The World Unite!
Znet Article, April, 17 2002
Laura Flanders
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As Red Crescent medics began retrieving dead bodies from the devastated Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin, as many as 100,000 pro-Israel demonstrators massed at the Capitol in D.C. The demonstration brought together conservative Jews and radical r...
Giacaman: A Population At Risk
Znet Article, April, 17 2002
Rita Giacaman
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April 16, 2002 Following is a quick review of the consequences of the continuing Israeli onslaught on the state of health of Palestinians. This onslaught began on the evening of March 29th, 2002, and continues until today, with serious ramificati...
Podur: Re-colonization Is Still On Schedule
Commentary, April, 16 2002
Justin Podur
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What does the recent coup in Venezuela mean for those struggling for social justice in Latin America? Are there lessons to be learned?
Grosso: The Zapatista Women
Znet Article, April, 16 2002
Paula Grosso
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It was four o’clock in the morning preceding a July day in 2000. The dark and quiet enveloped me as I walked through the still streets of San Cristóbal de Las Casas in the southeastern state of Chiapas, Mexico. I was heading toward the ma...
Reeves: Amid The Ruins Of Jenin, The Grisly Evidence Of A War Crime
Znet Article, April, 16 2002
Phil Reeves
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Amid The Ruins Of Jenin, The Grisly Evidence Of A War Crime
Hutchinson: Feds Promote Prison Racial Disparities
Znet Article, April, 16 2002
Earl ofari Hutchinson
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For decades federal prisons were repositories for a relatively small number of mostly white, white-collar embezzlers, tax cheats, racketeers, and swindlers. But that drastically changed in 1994 when then President Clinton shoved through Congress t...
Hass: Profound Contempt
Znet Article, April, 16 2002
Amira Hass
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Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat is a super-ruler, in the eyes of the Israelis. He has been imprisoned in his office for over two weeks. All the buildings of his government, including prisons and security apparatus, are destroyed, vand...
Qaq: What's Happening to Palestinian Society
Znet Article, April, 16 2002
Zakaria al Qaq
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The effects of the past 19 months of intifada and the last three weeks of war on Palestinian society have been dramatic and have made an indelible mark whose impact will be felt for many years to come. Palestinian society has lost its hope and its...
