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Street: Equanimity, Power, Gaza, and The New York Times
Znet Article, January, 10 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
A picture, the saying goes, is worth a thousand words. On the front page of last Tuesday’s New York Times, you can see United State House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi sitting with a giant grin between a smiling President-Elect and the...
Podur: Turn off the Canadian Media, Please
Znet Article, January, 08 2009
Justin Podur
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If national media help make a nation, then we all need to stop reading and listening to conventional Canadian media if we want to make a decent Canada.
Gordon: Israel's New War Ethic
Znet Article, January, 06 2009
Neve Gordon
Gordon's ZSpace page
Watching Israeli public television (Channel 1) these days can be an unsettling experience, and lately I've abstained from the practice. But after being stuck for seventy-two hours with our two young children inside a Beer-Sheva apartment, the spou...
Landau: Roger (Cohen) and Me
Commentary, December, 29 2008
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
As the prosperous, ethical and super-duper powerful United States erodes, The New York Times Magazine editors decided to feature, on its December 2 cover, the demise of Cuba's socialist society.
Monbiot: A Beardful of Bunkum
Commentary, December, 28 2008
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
David Bellamy's at it again, with even dafter claims about climate change.
Baker: Washington Post: The Problem is YOU, Not "We"
Znet Article, December, 24 2008
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
Imagine a major national newspaper that never saw an $8 trillion dollar housing bubble. Suppose its most often cited expert on the housing market was the chief economist of the National Association of Realtors, who also authored the 2006 bestselle...
Jamail: As Usual, the NYT Ignores Iraqi Opinion; Anecdotes trump polls on withdrawal
Znet Article, December, 19 2008
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
The New York Times failed spectacularly in its coverage of Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction, helping lead the country into war and only much later publishing a half-hearted mea culpa...
Young: Testing the Propaganda Model
Znet Article, December, 19 2008
Kevin Young
Young's ZSpace page
A comparison of US press coverage of Venezuela and Colombia over the past decade, focusing on two sets of parallel political actions taken by the Venezuelan and Colombian governments.
Engelhardt: The Axe, the Book, and the Ad
Znet Article, December, 18 2008
Tom Engelhardt
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On Reading in an Age of Depression
Street: "Re-Missioning" and Advance Betrayal: Notes on Iraq, "Expectation Management," and the Imperial Transition
Znet Article, December, 08 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Recently The New York Times reported an alleged evolution in President-Elect Obama’s position on the invasion of Iraq. Having run for the president partly on a vow to “end the war†in Iraq, Obama, Times reporter Thom Shanker wrote, “is ma...
Cromwell: 'Living Our Values' - Guardian News & Media And The Climate
Znet Article, November, 28 2008
David Cromwell
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Last week, Guardian News & Media (GNM) published 'Living Our Values', an independently audited account of the company's annual performance on sustainability issues. GNM, which encompasses the Guardian, the Observer and guardian.co.uk, claims to ha...
Street: The "Violin Model"
Znet Article, November, 25 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
I have four interrelated questions for the editors of The New York Times.
Street: "Brand Obama," "Brand Usa," And "The Audacity Of Marketing": Some Candid Reflections at Advertising Age
Znet Article, November, 18 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Twenty-three years ago the clever anti-television writer Neil Postman dissected the authoritarian nightmare that is modern political advertising in the United States. The television commercial, Postman noted, is the antithesis of rational popular ...
Edwards: Obama - Wiping The Slate Clean
Znet Article, November, 15 2008
David Edwards
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In 1997, the British media filled with talk of “historic†change. Blair's victory that year “bursts open the door to a British transformation,†the Independent declared...
Pilger: Journalism and the War on Terror
Audio, November, 08 2008
John Pilger
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John Pilger is an acclaimed Australian journalist and documentary maker. On Oct. 28 he discussed journalism and the War on Terror in front of an audience at the University of Texas with journalism professor Robert Jensen acting as interviewer.
Lendman: Studs Terkel: The Passing of An Icon
Znet Article, November, 01 2008
Stephen Lendman
Lendman's ZSpace page
Despite his advanced age, the news came as a shock. An era had passed. On October 31, author, activist, actor, broadcaster, and mensch for all seasons Louis "Studs" Terkel died peacefully at his Chicago North Side home at age 96. Already weakened ...
Sinclair: The Daily Show: Speaking truth to power or setting the boundaries of acceptable debate?
Znet Article, October, 31 2008
Ian Sinclair
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The Daily Show: Speaking truth to power or setting the boundaries of acceptable debate?
Herman: Poor Marlise: Her Old Allies Are Now Attacking the Tribunal and Even Portraying the Serbs as Victims
Znet Article, October, 29 2008
Edward Herman
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Marlise Simons, the New York Times’s main reporter on the Milosevic trial and International Criminal Trial for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), has had a difficult year. Perhaps most painful was the disclosure that in 1999 the Kosovo Albanian KLA se...
Slepton: The Importance of Election Day 2008
Video, October, 29 2008
So -- Slepton
Slepton's ZSpace page
EPISODE #1! First some clips from my recent interview with Barbara Walters ... Then a few words about presidential elections.
Roy: Devil's Advocate: Arundhati on media-police collusion
Znet Article, October, 20 2008
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
Millions of Indians do not trust the police. Is our choice not to question them because here we are talking about the communal profiling of a hundred and fifty million people, demoralising them, radicalising a whole generation and asking serious q...
