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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.
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 ...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...


