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Oja jay: Media Reform and Media Revolution
Zmag Article, July, 01 2005
Dru Oja jay
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T he dominant evaluation of this year’s National Conference on Media Reform is that it was an overwhelming success. On the contrary—relative to where the movement could and should be—the conference’s ...
Solomon: Nuclear Fundamentalism & Iran
Zmag Article, June, 01 2005
Norman Solomon
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Y ears from now, when historians look back at agenda-building for a missile attack on Iran, they should examine closely a story that took up the U.S.’s most coveted space for media spin—the upper right corn...
Hayes: Amplifying Women’s Voices
Zmag Article, May, 01 2005
Loie Hayes
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S hould we try to infiltrate mainstream media or put our considerable energies into creating our own communication channels? An energized group of 200 women writers, radio producers, and critics debated this and other ...
Sanders: Contempt for the Truth
Zmag Article, April, 01 2005
Ken Sanders
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A s has been much ballyhooed in recent months, the Bush administration likes to keep “journalists” on retainer. The Department of Education hired conservative commentator and columnist Armstrong Williams to...
Barsamian: New Media Monopoly
Zmag Article, March, 01 2005
David Barsamian
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B en Bagdikian is the winner of almost every top prize in U.S. journalism, including the Pulitzer. He is the former dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He is one of the ...
Herman: Studies in Hypocrisy From the F-Word to the New York Times
Zmag Article, February, 01 2005
Edward Herman
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T he hypocrisy that runs deep in this culture is amusingly illustrated by the fact that while the F-word has become standard operating language, especially under conditions of emotion or stress, and for the political r...
Chomsky: Imperial Presidency
Zmag Article, February, 01 2005
Noam Chomsky
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I t goes without saying that what happens in the U.S. has an enormous impact on the rest of the world—and conversely: what happens in the rest of the world cannot fail to have an impact on the U.S., in several wa...
Solomon: The PU-litzer Prizes for 2004
Zmag Article, January, 01 2005
Norman Solomon
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T he PU-litzer Prizes were established a dozen years ago to provide special recognition for truly smelly media performances. Jeff Cohen, founder of the media watch group FAIR, and I sifted through a large volume of ent...
Herman: “They Kill Reporters, Don't They?”
Zmag Article, January, 01 2005
Edward Herman
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I t has long been a problem for the U.S. imperial establishment that using their ever-improving arsenal of death, in projecting power from Vietnam to Iraq, kills large numbers of target state civilians, in violation of...
Chomsky: The Non-Election of 2004
Zmag Article, January, 01 2005
Noam Chomsky
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T he elections of November 2004 have received a great deal of discussion, with exultation in some quarters, despair in others, and general lamentation about a “divided nation.” They are likely to have polic...
Podur: The Rise and Fall of “Counterspin”
Zmag Article, August, 01 2004
Justin Podur
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O n Wednesday May 12, 2004, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Newsworld station broadcast the very last episode of “Counterspin,” an innovative TV debate show that, accordin...
Solomon: This War and Racism
Zmag Article, June, 01 2004
Norman Solomon
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A mong the millions of words that have appeared since late April about abuse and torture at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, one has been notably missing: racism. Overall, ...
Herman: Beyond Doublespeak: Iraq & Israel
Zmag Article, June, 01 2004
Edward Herman
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B ush, Sharon, and the media are steadily breaking new ground in the use of language to put aggression, pacification, ethnic clean- sing, and the disregard for law and elementary decency in a good ...
Solomon: George Will’s Ethics: None of Our Business? and PU-Litzer Prizes for 2003
Zmag Article, February, 01 2004
Norman Solomon
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L ate December 2003 brought to light a pair of self-inflicted wounds to well known columnist George Will’s ethical pretensions. He broke an elementary rule of journalism—and then, w...
Farsetta: Wisconsin Media Conference
Zmag Article, January, 01 2004
Diane Farsetta
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M edia scholars, reporters, and activists converged in Madison, Wisconsin from November 7 to 9. The big draw was the National Conference on Media Reform, organized by Free Press (www.mediareform.ne...
Barsamian: The Business of Books
Zmag Article, September, 01 2003
David Barsamian
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A ndre Schiffrin was managing director at Pantheon for 30 years. He’s now director of The New Press. He contributes a regular column on publishing to the Chronicle o...
Schechter: Blogging the War Away
Zmag Article, August, 01 2003
Danny Schechter
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Blogging the War Away
Solomon: The Media, Gulf War II, & The FCC
Zmag Article, June, 01 2003
Norman Solomon
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A new poll tells us that—by a two-to-one margin—Americans “use clearly positive words in their descriptions of the president.” The Pew Research Center, releasing a nationwide survey on May...
Mamoun: Wielding Weapons of Mass Persuasion
Zmag Article, June, 01 2003
Linda Mamoun
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R ecall the excitement on March 19, 2003 when U.S. and British forces launched, during prime-time television hours, their long-awaited sequel, Gulf War, Part II. After months of war promotion,...
Chomsky: Iraq is a Trial Run New “norm” in international relations
Zmag Article, May, 01 2003
Noam Chomsky
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Iraq is a Trial Run New “norm” in international relations
