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Solomon: HOLY SMOKE AND MIRRORS: THE RISE OF CENTRIST THEOCRATS
Commentary, August, 12 2000
Norman Solomon
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It's always dangerous when politicians claim to be doing God's will. So, as the novelty fades from Al Gore's selection of Joseph Lieberman, journalists should ask some probing questions about the ticket's conspicuous piety.
Solomon: THE CASE FOR CORPORATE-GIVEN NAMES
Commentary, July, 11 2000
Norman Solomon
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A public-interest group is urging sportswriters to resist a free-enterprise wave of the future. "Corporations are seizing the names of our beloved parks and stadiums, and replacing these with their own," Commercial Alert complains in a letter that...
Solomon: VIRTUAL COMMANDMENTS OF THE DOT-COM FAITH
Commentary, June, 19 2000
Norman Solomon
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Inside the temples of true believers, ardent faith has a way of prevailing. And so, in the Dot-Com year of 2000, vast numbers of followers seem eager to fulfill a sacred digital future.
Solomon: AD INDUSTRY: GIVING WOMEN SPECIAL TREATMENT
Commentary, June, 09 2000
Norman Solomon
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Last fall, when Jean Kilbourne's new book "Deadly Persuasion" was arriving on shelves, Publishers Weekly praised it as "a wake-up call about the damaging effects of advertising in our media-saturated culture." But six months later, the mass media'...
Solomon: U.S. NEWS MEDIA: A SECURITY ZONE FOR ISRAEL
Commentary, June, 03 2000
Norman Solomon
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One phrase -- "security zone" -- sums up an entire era of media spin about Israel's 22-year occupation of southern Lebanon.
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 untouchable—and 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...
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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 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 ...
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.
