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Solomon: Corporate Media and Advocacy Journalism
Commentary, June, 02 2006
Norman Solomon
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We see this kind of news story now and again. Sometimes we try to imagine the people behind the numbers, the human realities underneath the surface abstractions. But overall, the responses testify to journalism's failings -- and our own.
Solomon: Media Memorial Day
Znet Article, May, 29 2006
Norman Solomon
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People who are concerned about the state of the U.S. news media in2006 might pause to consider those who have lost their lives in the midst of journalistic neglect, avoidance and bias. We remember that while TV and radio news reports tell th...
Solomon: When War Crimes Are Impossible
Zmag Article, May, 01 2006
Norman Solomon
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I s President Bush guilty of war crimes? To even ask the question is to go far beyond the boundaries of mainstream U.S. media. A few weeks ago when a class of seniors at Parsippany High School in N...
Solomon: When ÒDiplomacyÓ Means War
Commentary, April, 23 2006
Norman Solomon
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One of the nation's leading pollsters, Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center, wrote a few weeks ago that among Americans "there is little potential support for the use of force against Iran." This month the White House has continued to emph...
Solomon: When “Diplomacy†Means War
Commentary, April, 23 2006
Norman Solomon
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One of the nation's leading pollsters, Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center, wrote a few weeks ago that among Americans "there is little potential support for the use of force against Iran." This month the White House has continued to emph...
Solomon: How Long Will MoveOn.org Fail to Oppose Bombing Iran?
Znet Article, April, 18 2006
Norman Solomon
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MoveOn.org sent out an email with the subject line “Don’t Nuke Iran†to three million people on April 12. ...
Solomon: The Lobby and the Bulldozer: Mearsheimer, Walt and Corrie
Znet Article, April, 15 2006
Norman Solomon
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Weeks after a British magazine published a long article by two American professors titled “The Israel Lobby,†the outrage continued to howl through mainstream U.S. media. A Los Angeles Times op-ed article by Council on Foreig...
Solomon: When War Crimes Are Impossible
Znet Article, April, 04 2006
Norman Solomon
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Is President Bush guilty of war crimes? To even ask the question is to go far beyond the boundaries of mainstream U.S. media. A few weeks ago, when a class of seniors at Parsippany High School in New Jersey prepared for a mock trial to assess...
Solomon: Why Are We Here?
Commentary, March, 29 2006
Norman Solomon
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Why Are We Here?
Solomon: Blaming the Media for Bad War News
Znet Article, March, 25 2006
Norman Solomon
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Top officials in the Bush administration have often complained that news coverage of Iraq focuses on negative events too much and fails to devote enough attention to positive developments. Yet the White House has rarely picked direct fights w...
Solomon: Blaming the Media for Bad War News
Znet Article, March, 25 2006
Norman Solomon
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Top officials in the Bush administration have often complained that news coverage of Iraq focuses on negative events too much and fails to devote enough attention to positive developments. Yet the White House has rarely picked direct fights w...
Solomon: War-Loving Pundits
Znet Article, March, 19 2006
Norman Solomon
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The third anniversary of the Iraq invasion was bound to attract a lot of media coverage, but scant recognition went to the pundits who helped to make it all possible. Continuing with long service to the Bush administration's agenda-setting for w...
Solomon: Ted Koppel Joins NPR News
Zmag Article, March, 01 2006
Norman Solomon
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T ed Koppel will become a regular voice on National Public Radio. He recently ended 25 years with ABC’s show, “Nightline,” amid profuse media accolades. NPR has announced that Kop...
Solomon: Other Shoe Dropping on Classified Leaks and Journalists
Commentary, February, 17 2006
Norman Solomon
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Ever since the disclosure of Valerie Plame's identity as an undercover CIA operative in July 2003, prominent Democrats have denounced that leak -- often with some kind of rhetoric about the sanctity of classified information. But reverence for kee...
Solomon: Domestic Lying: The Question That Journalists Don't Ask Bush
Commentary, February, 07 2006
Norman Solomon
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With great fanfare, Oprah Winfrey asked James Frey a question that mainstream journalists refuse to ask George W. Bush: "Why would you lie?"
Solomon: Smothering the King Legacy With Kind Words
Znet Article, February, 03 2006
Norman Solomon
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Hours after Coretta Scott King died, President Bush led off the State of the Union address by praising her as “a beloved, graceful, courageous woman who called America to its founding ideals and carried on a noble dream.†For goo...
Solomon: Spinning Us to Death
Znet Article, February, 03 2006
Norman Solomon
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In the months preceding the invasion of Iraq, Norman Solomon invited actor Sean Penn along with him on a trip to Baghdad. A syndicated columnist and Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, Solomon went to Iraq three times during t...
Solomon: Domestic Lying
Znet Article, January, 29 2006
Norman Solomon
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With great fanfare, Oprah Winfrey asked James Frey a question that mainstream journalists refuse to ask George W. Bush: "Why would you lie?" Many pundits and news outlets chortled at the unmasking of Frey as a liar. The reverberations spanned fro...
Solomon: Ted Koppel at NPR
Znet Article, January, 18 2006
Norman Solomon
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No doubt many people are glad that Ted Koppel will become a regular voice on National Public Radio. He recently ended 25 years with ABC's "Nightline" show amid profuse media accolades. But what kind of journalist goes out of his way to voice ferve...
Solomon: Media's War Images Delude Instead of Inform
Commentary, January, 15 2006
Norman Solomon
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The picture was perfect. It provided a moving portrait, an image that journalists called "iconic." It was true to the moment. Yet the photograph was deceiving in a way that media images often are -- showing us what's more apparent than real.
