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Znet Article Solomon: Media Empathy?

Znet Article, April, 18 2003 Norman Solomon
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The day after America's tax deadline, President Bush ...

Znet Article Solomon: A Lethal Way To Dispatch News

Znet Article, April, 10 2003 Norman Solomon
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In times of war, journalists can serve as vital witnesses for the people of the world. So it's especially sinister when governments take aim at reporters and photographers. A few weeks ago, when I was talking with a CNN cameraman, he recalled an ...

Znet Article Solomon: The Thick Fog Of War On American Tv

Znet Article, April, 03 2003 Norman Solomon
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Minutes after the dawn spread daylight across the Iraqi desert, "embedded" CNN correspondent Walter Rodgers was on the air with a live report. Another employee at the network, former U.S. Gen. Wesley Clark -- on the job in a TV studio back home --...

Znet Article Solomon: Media War: Obsessed With Tactics And Technology

Znet Article, March, 27 2003 Norman Solomon
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Two months ago, when I wandered through a...

Znet Article Solomon: Casualties Of War -- First Truth, Then Conscience

Znet Article, March, 20 2003 Norman Solomon
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The national media echo chamber is not receptive to conscience. On television, the voices are usually loud and facile. People often seem to be shouting. In contrast, the human conscience is close to a whisper. Easily unheard. Now, the biggest med...

Znet Article Solomon: The Conventional Media Wisdom Of Obedience

Znet Article, March, 13 2003 Norman Solomon
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As the possibility of a U.S. invasion turns into the reality of massive carnage, the war on Iraq cannot avoid confronting Americans with a tacit expectation that rarely gets media scrutiny. In a word: obedience. When a country -- particularly "a ...

Znet Article Solomon: American Media Dodging UN Surveillance Story

Znet Article, March, 07 2003 Norman Solomon
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Three days after a British newspaper revealed a memo about U.S. spying on U.N. Security Council delegations, I asked Daniel Ellsberg to assess the importance of the story. "This leak," he replied, "is more timely and potentially more important tha...

Znet Article Solomon: Globalization And It's Malcontents

Znet Article, February, 20 2003 Norman Solomon
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One of the big media buzzwords to emerge in recent years is "globalization." By now, we're likely to know what it means. That's unfortunate -- because at this point the word is so ambiguous that it doesn't really mean much of anything. News outle...

Znet Article Solomon: Playing The

Znet Article, February, 13 2003 Norman Solomon
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These days, it's a crucial ace up Uncle Sam's sleeve. "Terrorism" is George W. Bush's magic card. For 17 months now, the word has worked like a political charm for the Bush administration. Ever since the terrible crime against humanity known as ...

Znet Article Solomon: Colin Powell Is Flawless -- Inside A Media Bubble

Znet Article, February, 07 2003 Norman Solomon
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There's no doubt about it: Colin Powell is a great performer, as he showed yet again at the U.N. Security Council the other day. On television, he exudes confidence and authoritative judgment. But Powell owes much o...

Znet Article Solomon: Waiting For The Missiles In Baghdad

Znet Article, February, 03 2003 Norman Solomon
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BAGHDAD -- Picture yourself as an American reporter here in the Iraqi capital. You're based in one of the fraying rooms at the Al Rashid, the large hotel where most Western journalists stay. There's plenty to cover, but the obstacles are dauntin...

Znet Article Solomon: Target Iraq: What the News Media Don't Tell Us

Znet Article, February, 03 2003 Norman Solomon
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1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book is about? What is it trying to communicate? The book is primarily an assessment of key lies and omissions in the U.S. government's push toward war on Iraq. The subtitle -- "What the news media didn...

Zmag Article Solomon: Not All White House Reporters Are Pushovers

Zmag Article, February, 01 2003 Norman Solomon
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A t 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., reporters usually shuffle along to a snoozy beat. The latest in a long line of presidential spinners, Ari Fleischer, began a news conference on January 6 with a nice gre...

Znet Article Solomon: Not All White House Reporters Are Pushovers

Znet Article, January, 11 2003 Norman Solomon
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At 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., reporters usually shuffle along to a snoozy beat. But anyone who denigrates the mainstream media in general, or the White House press corps in particular, should acknowledge that exceptional journalists do strive to ask ...

Znet Article Solomon: Media Year 2002, R.I.P.

Znet Article, December, 28 2002 Norman Solomon
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It's impossible to adequately sum up any year, and 2002 is probably more difficult than most to grasp. Bursts of militaristic fervor bracketed the 12 months, which began in the terrible aftermath of 9/11 with the United States waging a fierce war ...

Znet Article Solomon: Decoding Some Top Buzzwords

Znet Article, December, 13 2002 Norman Solomon
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How words are used can be crucial to understanding and misunderstanding the world around us. The media lexicon is saturated with certain buzz phrases. They're popular -- but what do they mean? "The use of words is to express ideas," James Madiso...

Znet Article Solomon: Media Spin Can Seperate War From Death

Znet Article, December, 05 2002 Norman Solomon
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A dozen years after the Gulf War, public perceptions of it are now very helpful to the White House. That's part of a timeworn pattern. Illusions about previous wars make the next one seem acceptable. As George Orwell observed: "Who controls the pa...

Zmag Article Solomon: Long Day's Journey After Election Night

Zmag Article, December, 01 2002 Norman Solomon
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With Republicans gaining control of the Senate, few analysts doubt that 9-11 set the stage for George W. Bush to lead his party to victory. Midway through September 2001, in the national media vortex, a president ...

Commentary Solomon: Media Time Capsule: Looking Backward At 2002

Commentary, November, 30 2002 Norman Solomon
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Imagine that you're at the ceremonial opening of a time capsule, half a century after some forward-looking Americans sealed it during a multimedia festival just before Thanksgiving 2002.

Znet Article Solomon: Unilateral Power: By Any Other Name

Znet Article, November, 21 2002 Norman Solomon
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Ever since the U.N. Security Council adopted its resolution about Iraq on Nov. 8, American politicians and journalists have been hailing the unanimous vote as a huge victory for international cooperation instead of unilateral action. New York Ti...

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