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Friel: The New York Times and Gaza
Znet Article, March, 03 2008
Howard Friel
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During the first two months of 2008, Israeli security forces killed 146 Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, 42 of which did not participate in fighting. During the same period, Palestinians killed one member of the Israeli security forces an...
Herman: Neither Popular Government Nor Popular Information
Zmag Article, March, 01 2008
Edward Herman
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One of my favorite quotations, from James Madison in 1822, is that “a popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both” (this was used as the title of Nichols ...
Solomon: War Made Easy
Video, February, 22 2008
Norman Solomon
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Interview about his book...
Chomsky: "Good News," Iraq and Beyond
Znet Article, February, 15 2008
Noam Chomsky
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Not long ago, it was taken for granted that the Iraq war would be the central issue in the presidential campaign, as it was in the mid-term election of 2006. But it has virtually disappeared, eliciting some puzzlement. There should be none.
Ali: Et Tu, New York Times?
Znet Article, February, 13 2008
Tariq Ali
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The New York Times' recently awoken sense of justice was dormant when Musharraf sacked the independent-minded judges, whose sin was ordering the release of the 'terrorists' imprisoned without proof or trial.
Prieto mahaney: Repetitive Media
Znet Article, February, 11 2008
Orlando omar Prieto mahaney
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Communication
Cromwell: 'Creative Destruction' - The Madness Of The Global Economy - Part 1
Commentary, February, 11 2008
David Cromwell
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Watching the corporate media report the 'financial crisis' is instructive. From the perspective of power, it is important that a steadying hand is applied to the tiller of news and commentary on the crisis, and the global economy itself.
Lendman: Lies, Damn Lies and the Murdoch Empire
Znet Article, February, 07 2008
Stephen Lendman
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For Big Media, truth is a scare commodity and in times of war it's the first casualty...
Jensen: Investigative Journalism Project Reveals Problem at Core of Mainstream Journalism
Commentary, February, 06 2008
Robert Jensen
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Pro Publica, an initiative launched last month in the United States to help revitalize investigative journalism, is a great idea trapped by the worst aspects of the best instincts in contemporary corporate commercial journalism. The project remind...
Weisbrot: Latin America News Coverage
Znet Article, February, 01 2008
Mark Weisbrot
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Barack Obama had a few choice words for Bill and Hillary Clinton after the South Carolina primary, about people who would "say anything and do anything to win an election."
Edwards: All Smoke, No Fire - The National Journal Smears The Lancet
Commentary, January, 27 2008
David Edwards
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Last year, we described how mainstream climate sceptics had queued up to praise film-maker Martin Durkin's now infamous documentary, The Great Global Warming Swindle. The Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, and their counterparts in the United States...
Solomon: Media & War Interview
Audio, January, 24 2008
Norman Solomon
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Norman Solomon interviewed by Jonathan Lawson. KBCS-FM, 11 Jan 2008
Lendman: Robert McChesney's "Communication Revolution"
Znet Article, January, 21 2008
Stephen Lendman
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Robert McChesney is a leading media scholar, critic, activist, and the nation's most prominent researcher and writer on US media history, its policy and practice. He's also University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) Research Professor in the Instit...
Weisbrot: Americans Need to Look Beyond the Media on Venezuela
Znet Article, January, 17 2008
Mark Weisbrot
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If we read the newspapers and watch TV in the United States, we are told that President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela is a "dictator," "authoritarian," "a threat to democracy" in his own country and the region, and "anti-U.S." But leaders who try to em...
Edwards: David Aaronovitch - A Different Kind Of Compassion
Commentary, January, 13 2008
David Edwards
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If "The wages of sin is death", the returns must seem altogether less bleak to Tony Blair. In November, Blair was reported to have received £237,000 for a 20-minute speech before an audience of Chinese entrepreneurs. While his salary as prime mini...
Lendman: Reviewing David Cromwell and David Edwards' "Guardians of Power"
Znet Article, January, 09 2008
Stephen Lendman
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Today, the media is in crisis, and a free and open society is at risk. Fiction substitutes for fact, news is carefully filtered, dissent is marginalized, and supporting the powerful substitutes for full and accurate reporting. As a result, wars of...
Weisbrot: Inter-American Press Association Shouldn't Pursue Partisan Agenda in Venezuela
Znet Article, January, 09 2008
Mark Weisbrot
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A January 2 article in Editor and Publisher gives the impression that the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) is defending freedom of expression in Venezuela.
Friel: The New York Times Hires William Kristol.
Znet Article, January, 04 2008
Howard Friel
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Just in time for election year, the New York Times announced on December 29 that it had hired William Kristol as an op-ed page columnist, with the first column scheduled to appear on January 7, 2008.
Goodman: The FCC's Christmas Gift to Big Media
Znet Article, December, 28 2007
Amy Goodman
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On Dec. 18, the five commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission met in Washington, D.C., and, by a 3 to 2 vote, passed new regulations that would allow more media consolidation. This, despite the U.S. public’s increasing concern over t...
