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Zmag Article Berlet: Right-Wing Rollback: The Powell Memo

Zmag Article, October, 01 2009 Chip Berlet
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Influential 1971 memo that spurred conservative funding

Znet Article Goodman: Scanning the Horizon of Books and Libraries

Znet Article, October, 01 2009 Amy Goodman
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A battle is raging over the future of books in the digital age and the role that libraries will play. One case now before a U.S. federal court may, some say, grant a practical monopoly on recorded human knowledge to global Internet search giant Go...

Commentary Cromwell: "An Existential Threat": The Us, Israel And Iran

Commentary, September, 19 2009 David Cromwell
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On August 26, the Guardian newspaper published an article titled, 'US takes on Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Iran's nuclear programme in one massive gamble.'

Commentary Jensen: Can journalism schools be relevant in a world on the brink?

Commentary, September, 16 2009 Robert Jensen
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Journalism schools have much in common with the mainstream news media they traditionally serve. As the business model for conventional corporate journalism collapses and digital technologies reshape the media landscape, journalism schools struggle...

Znet Article Roy: A Letter To 'The Economist'

Znet Article, September, 10 2009 Arundhati Roy
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Dear Sir, This is with regard to the review of my book Listening to Grasshoppers that appeared in The Economist. If this letter is long, ironically it is because the factual errors in the review are so many. In an attempt to highlight my "flawed r...

Znet Article Goodman: Van Jones and the Boycott of Glenn Beck

Znet Article, September, 09 2009 Amy Goodman
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Glenn Beck was mad. He’s the right-wing talk radio host who has a television program on the Fox News Channel. Advertisers were fleeing his Fox program en masse after the civil rights group Color of Change mounted a campaign urging advertisers to...

Commentary Pilger: Lockerbie: Megrahi was framed

Commentary, September, 05 2009 John Pilger
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The hysteria over the release of the so-called Lockerbie bomber reveals much about the political and media class on both sides of the Atlantic, especially Britain. From Gordon Brown's "repulsion" to Barack Obama's "outrage", the theatre of lies an...

Commentary Solomon: The Afghanistan Gap: Press vs. Public

Commentary, August, 27 2009 Norman Solomon
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These days, a lot of media stories are comparing President Johnson's war in Vietnam and President Obama's war in Afghanistan. The comparisons are often valid, but a key parallel rarely gets mentioned -- the media's insistent support for the war ev...

Znet Article Winter: The Sport of Feminist-Bashing

Znet Article, August, 17 2009 James Winter
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It's been a busy summer of feminist-bashing at CanWest, Canada's largest newspaper publisher.

Commentary Engler: The dominant Canadian media's coverage of the coup in Honduras has been atrocious.

Commentary, August, 16 2009 Yves Engler
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Even a close observer of the Canadian press would know almost nothing about the ongoing demonstrations, blockades and work stoppages calling for the return of elected President Manuel Zelaya. Since Zelaya was overthrown by the military on June 28 ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Anti-Venezuela Spokespeople Misrepresent Reality of Press Freedom in Venezuela

Znet Article, August, 12 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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Denis MacShane attacks the British left for defending Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez against an onslaught from the media, "New Cold Warriors," and right-wing demagogues throughout the world. His rhetorical trick is to tar the left with a new med...

Znet Article Mcchesney2: Interviewing McChesney

Znet Article, August, 10 2009 Bob2 Mcchesney2
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Why do you think it is important for progressives to understand the media and participate in media democracy struggles?

Commentary Edwards: Siding With The Generals - The Independent On Honduras

Commentary, August, 06 2009 David Edwards
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Iran's June 12 presidential elections have been widely criticised, both domestically and abroad, as lacking credibility. During the popular protests that followed, some 30 people were killed by government forces with hundreds more arrested. These ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Right Wing Media

Znet Article, July, 30 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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The controversy over the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and President Obama's remark that the police "acted stupidly" has taken up a lot of newspaper and broadcast space in the past week, and brought some attention to the proble...

Znet Article Schechter: Michael, Walter, and Nelson in en Era of Iconomania

Znet Article, July, 27 2009 Danny Schechter
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New York New York: What a time for Iconomania, none of it critical, none of it questioning, none offering deeper perspective or leading to very revealing coverage.

Commentary Pilger: Murdoch: A Cultural Chernobyl

Commentary, July, 25 2009 John Pilger
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I met Eddie Spearritt in the Philharmonic pub, overlooking Liverpool. It was a few years after 96 Liverpool football fans had been crushed to death at Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield, on 15 April 1989. Eddie's son, Adam, aged 14, died in his arms....

Znet Article Street: Walter Cronkite

Znet Article, July, 23 2009 Paul Street
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Walter Cronkite died one week ago at the age of 92. He was the nation’s leading news anchor in the 1960s and 1970s. Like millions of other Americans who grew up in those decades, my earliest political memories carry the sound and image of “Unc...

Znet Article Edwards: Big Beasts, Big Bloodbath

Znet Article, July, 23 2009 David Edwards
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The “big beasts” of the pre-digital media age are in big trouble, the Guardian tells us. In the last year, they have faced, not only structural challenges but the worst recession for a generation:

Znet Article Dimaggio: A Distorted “Debate”

Znet Article, July, 21 2009 Anthony Dimaggio
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We may look back at the last few weeks as a historic time in American politics. Free market rhetoric used to denigrate government-sponsored health care is finally being seriously challenged. But is media debate on health care truly open? Comment...

Znet Article Cook: Twitterers paid to spread Israeli propaganda

Znet Article, July, 21 2009 Jonathan Cook
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Nazareth. The passionate support for Israel expressed on talkback sections of websites, internet chat forums, blogs, Twitters and Facebook may not be all that it seems.

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