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Solomon: The Media Big Six
Zmag Article, June, 01 2000
Norman Solomon
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The push by federal regulators to break up Microsoft is big news. Until recently, the software giant seemed untouchableand few people demanded effective anti-trust efforts against monopoly power in the software industry. Th...
Solomon: OVERCOMING THE HAZARDS OF MEDIA
Commentary, May, 22 2000
Norman Solomon
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After the "Love Bug" virus struck millions of computer hard drives, many news outlets attributed the magnitude of the damage to overwhelming reliance on the same type of software. Suddenly, in the digital world, steep downsides of technical confor...
Solomon: THE POWER AND LIMITS OF PHOTOJOURNALISM
Commentary, May, 04 2000
Norman Solomon
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Despite all the emphasis on new media, photography has never lost the power to move us. Some recent photo essays in major American magazines, focusing on the poor and dispossessed, are efforts to break through abstraction and indifference. They te...
Solomon: FROM THE NEWS MEDIA TO ELIAN, WITH LOVE
Commentary, April, 15 2000
Norman Solomon
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Oh Elian, we love you! We're the News Media. And you're incredibly special. Many politicians, legal experts, psychologists, celebrities and pundits have wanted the world to know that they fervently desire what's best for you. We've been glad to pu...
Solomon: SELF-CENSORSHIP IS SHADOWING THE NEW MEDIA ERA
Commentary, April, 04 2000
Norman Solomon
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Months have passed since America Online and Time Warner announced plans to merge. Big news at the time, the formation of the world's largest media firm is already old hat. And so it goes: Like the rest of us, journalists quickly get used to the la...
Solomon: NPR FLOATS AN OMBUDSMAN, BUT PROBLEMS RUN DEEP
Commentary, March, 13 2000
Norman Solomon
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What if a big restaurant chain announced that it was hiring a chief inspector -- and filled the job with the person who'd been in charge of the company's kitchens? We might roll our eyes if the incoming inspector proclaimed from the outset that th...
Solomon: BILL BRADLEY, NEWS MEDIA AND "THE POLITICS OF AMBIGUITY"
Commentary, February, 17 2000
Norman Solomon
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Andrew Jackson won the White House in 1828 with a fresh approach to oratory. "Jackson was the first president to master the liberal rhetoric," wrote historian Howard Zinn, who called it "the new politics of ambiguity -- speaking for the lower and ...
Solomon: E Vandalism Intrudes on Right to be Heard
Commentary, February, 12 2000
Norman Solomon
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A specter is haunting cyberspace -- the specter of e-vandalism. Media alarms have been loud in recent days: Electronic commerce is under siege. A virtual crime wave threatens to wreak havoc on the World Wide Web. Any site is vulnerable, no matter...
Solomon: none
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Norman Solomon
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A few numbers tell a dramatic story about extreme changes in media fascination with the Internet. After the 1990s ended, I set out to gauge how news coverage of cyberspace shifted during the last half of the decade. The comprehe...
Solomon: AOL / Time Warner: Calling the Faithful to Their Knees
Commentary, January, 21 2000
Norman Solomon
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And so, early in the year 2000, it came to pass that visions of a seamless media web enraptured the keepers of pecuniary faith as never before. A grand new structure, AOL Time Warner, emerged while a few men proclaimed themselves trustees of a hol...
Solomon: A PRo-Democracy Movement
Commentary, December, 26 1999
Norman Solomon
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It's a pro-democracy movement. And it's global. The vibrant social forces that converged on Seattle -- and proceeded to deflate the WTO summit -- are complex, diverse and sometimes contradictory. Yet the threads of their demands form a distinct w...
Solomon: Free Trade's Happy Face Peels Off
Commentary, December, 03 1999
Norman Solomon
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SEATTLE -- After enjoying a free ride in American news media for many years, the World Trade Organization just hit a brick wall. The credit should go to a vast array of civic activists -- represented by tens of thousands of protesters from every c...
Solomon: Online Trading
Zmag Article, December, 01 1999
Norman Solomon
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Norman Solomon If youre watching much television these days, youve probably seen a lot of commercials for online investing. Many large brokerage firms are now urging people to play the stock market via the Internet. So, in routine ...
Solomon: Nearing Global Summit, WTO On High Media Ground
Commentary, November, 23 1999
Norman Solomon
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When thousands of protesters converge on Seattle at the end of this month to challenge the global summit of the World Trade Organization, they're unlikely to get a fair hearing from America's mass media.
Solomon: The Twain Most Americans Never Meet
Commentary, November, 19 1999
Norman Solomon
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With the start of 2000 less than two months away, I've been thinking about a beloved American writer who stuck his neck out the last time people went through a change of centuries.
Solomon: When Online Trading Offers a Reason to Believe
Commentary, November, 09 1999
Norman Solomon
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If you're watching much television these days, you've probably seen a lot of commercials for online investing. Many large brokerage firms are now urging people to play the stock market via the Internet. So, in routine fashion, TV spots dramatize c...
Solomon: Media Time Capsule
Commentary, October, 11 1999
Norman Solomon
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On the first day of January, many public ceremonies will feature time capsules -- sealed long ago, when "the year 2000" sounded incredibly futuristic. Those containers, intended for opening at the start of the new millennium, presumably hold evoca...
Solomon: The Enduring Spirit of a Dissident Senator
Commentary, October, 03 1999
Norman Solomon
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The black-and-white TV footage is grainy and faded, but it still jumps off the screen -- a portentous clash between a prominent reporter and a maverick politician.
Solomon: Big Media Applaud Big Media Merger
Commentary, September, 24 1999
Norman Solomon
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When the story about Viacom and CBS broke a few days ago, news accounts quickly depicted a match made in corporate heaven -- at more than $37 billion, the largest media merger in history. With the public kept outside the frame, it was a rosy picture.
Solomon: In the Nation's Capital, Media Fixations Prevail
Commentary, August, 21 1999
Norman Solomon
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Few phrases in American politics have more negative connotations than "inside the Beltway." In this rarified and unreal zone, we often assume, the activities of politicians and bureaucrats are disconnected from the main concerns of most Americans....


