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Commentary 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?"

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Commentary 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.

Znet Article Solomon: Axis of Fanatics -- Netanyahu and Ahmadinejad

Znet Article, January, 07 2006 Norman Solomon
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With Ariel Sharon out of the picture, Benjamin Netanyahu has a better chance to become prime minister of Israel.      He’s media savvy. He knows how to spin on American television. And he’s very dangerous.      Netanyahu spent a ...

Zmag Article Solomon: Donald & Saddam

Zmag Article, January, 01 2006 Norman Solomon
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S addam Hussein has gone on trial, but questions remain unasked by mainstream U.S. journalists about Donald Rumsfeld’s 1983 meeting with Hussein in Baghdad on behalf of the Reagan administrat...

Znet Article Solomon: Journalists Should Expose Secrets, Not Keep Them

Znet Article, December, 30 2005 Norman Solomon
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     Journalists should be in the business of providing timely information to the public. But some -- notably at the top rungs of the profession-- have become players in the power games of the nation’s capital.And more than a few seem glad...

Znet Article Solomon: NSA Spied on U.N. Diplomats in Push for Invasion of Iraq

Znet Article, December, 28 2005 Norman Solomon
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     Despite all the news accounts and punditry since the New York Times published its Dec. 16 bombshell about the National Security Agency’s domestic spying, the media coverage has made virtually no mention of the fact that the Bush admin...

Znet Article Solomon: A New Phase of Bright Spinning Lies About Iraq

Znet Article, December, 23 2005 Norman Solomon
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 Three days before Christmas, the Bush administration launched a new salvo of bright spinning lies about the Iraq war. “In an interview with reporters traveling with him on an Air Force cargo plane to Baghdad,” the Associated Press...

Znet Article Solomon: Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2005

Znet Article, December, 20 2005 Norman Solomon
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     More than a dozen years ago, I joined with Jeff Cohen (founder of the media watch group FAIR) to establish the P.U.-litzer Prizes. Ever since then, the annual awards have given recognition to the stinkiest media performances of the year.    ...

Znet Article Solomon: At the Gates of San Quentin

Znet Article, December, 13 2005 Norman Solomon
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No buzzards were gliding overhead, but several helicopters circled, under black sky tinged blue. On the shore of a stunning bay at a placid moment, the state prepared to kill. Outside the gates of San Quentin, people gathered to protest the impen...

Znet Article Solomon: The Bogus Blurring of Terrorism and Insurgency in Iraq

Znet Article, December, 12 2005 Norman Solomon
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With public support for the Iraq war at low ebb, the White House is more eager than ever to conflate Iraq’s insurgency with terrorism.But last week, just after President Bush gave yet another speech repeatedly depicting the U.S. war effo...

Znet Article Solomon: Hidden in Plane Sight: U.S. Media Dodging Air War in Iraq

Znet Article, December, 07 2005 Norman Solomon
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The U.S. government is waging an air war in Iraq. “In recent months, the tempo of American bombing seems to have increased,” Seymour Hersh reported in the Dec. 5 edition of The New Yorker. “Most of the targets appear to be ...

Znet Article Solomon: Colin Powell: Still Craven After All These Years

Znet Article, November, 30 2005 Norman Solomon
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Newspapers across the United States and beyond told readers Wednesday about sensational new statements by a former top assistant to Colin Powell when he was secretary of state. After interviewing Lawrence Wilkerson, the Associated Press reported h...

Znet Article Solomon: Woodward Scandal

Znet Article, November, 27 2005 Norman Solomon
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Bob Woodward probably hoped that the long holiday weekend would break the momentum of an uproar that suddenly confronted him midway through November. But three days after Thanksgiving, on NBC's "Meet the Press," a question about the famed Washingt...

Znet Article Solomon: Thanksgiving and more Taking

Znet Article, November, 24 2005 Norman Solomon
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When Thanksgiving arrives, the media coverage is mostly predictable. Feature stories tell of turkeys and food drives for the needy. We hear about why some people, famous and unknown, say they feel thankful. And, of course, holiday advertising camp...

Znet Article Solomon: Getting Out of Iraq

Znet Article, November, 22 2005 Norman Solomon
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Thanksgiving week began with the New York Times noting that “all of Washington is consumed with debate over the direction of the war in Iraq.” The debate -- long overdue -- is a serious blow to the war makers in Washington, but the...

Znet Article Solomon: Axis of Hardliners, From Tehran to Washington

Znet Article, November, 06 2005 Norman Solomon
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The huge gap between Tehran and Washington has widened in recent months. Top officials of Iran and the United States are not even within shouting distance. The styles of rhetoric differ, but the messages in both directions are filled with hostilit...

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