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Solomon: Axis of Fanatics -- Netanyahu and Ahmadinejad
Znet Article, January, 07 2006
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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 ...
Solomon: Donald & Saddam
Zmag Article, January, 01 2006
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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...
Solomon: Journalists Should Expose Secrets, Not Keep Them
Znet Article, December, 30 2005
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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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Solomon: Getting Out of Iraq
Znet Article, November, 22 2005
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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...
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...
Solomon: Acquitting Itself
Znet Article, November, 01 2005
Norman Solomon
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A lot of media outlets are now scrutinizing some of the lies told by the Bush administration before the invasion of Iraq. Yet the same news organizations are bypassing their own key roles in the marketing of those lies. A case in point is the New ...
Solomon: Iraq Is Not Vietnam. But...
Znet Article, October, 26 2005
Norman Solomon
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Many politicians and pundits have told us that "Iraq is not Vietnam." Certainly, any competent geographer would agree. Substantively, the histories of Iraq and Vietnam are very different. And the dynamics of U.S. military intervention in the two...
Solomon: What's Happening out of Camera Range?
Znet Article, October, 25 2005
Norman Solomon
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By now, millions of TV viewers have seen the video numerous times on television: Two police officers are beating a man on the pavement. It's big news -- because a camera was there. Robert Davis, a 64-year-old retired teacher, suffered injuries d...
Solomon: Media at a Huge Crossroads, 25 Years After Reagan's Triumph
Znet Article, October, 24 2005
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By a twist of political fate, the Oct. 28 deadline for special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to take action on the Plamegate matter is exactly 25 years after the only debate of the presidential race between Ronald Reagan and incumbent Jimmy Carter. H...
Solomon: Judith Miller, the Fourth Estate and the Warfare State
Znet Article, October, 20 2005
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More than any other New York Times reporter, Judith Miller took the lead with stories claiming that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Now, a few years later, she's facing heightened scrutiny in the aftermath of a pair of articles that appeared...
Solomon: Lamenting the Habitual
Commentary, October, 14 2005
Norman Solomon
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Dan Rather caused some ripples the other day when he lamented the state of U.S. news media. The former CBS anchor said "there is a climate of fear running through newsrooms stronger than he has ever seen in his more than four-decade career," accor...


