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Herman: PUBLIC VERSUS POWER INTELLECTUALS, Part 1
Commentary, May, 11 2001
Edward Herman
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The conventional use of the term "public intellectual" has been a source of growing confusion and bombast of late. At a forum on "The Future of Public Intellectuals" held some months ago in New York City, Russell Jacoby of The Last Intellectuals f...
Herman: PUBLIC VERSUS POWER INTELLECTUALS, Part 1
Commentary, May, 11 2001
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
The conventional use of the term "public intellectual" has been a source of growing confusion and bombast of late. At a forum on "The Future of Public Intellectuals" held some months ago in New York City, Russell Jacoby of The Last Intellectuals f...
Edwards: Media Mendacity and The Art of Self-Deception
Commentary, May, 09 2001
David Edwards
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On 27 January 1986, the O-ring task force of Morton Thiokol met to discuss the likely consequences of a proposed Space Shuttle launch the following day at a temperature of 18 degrees Fahrenheit. O-rings are designed to take up the slack in the Shu...
Solomon: MEDIA AND VIETNAM: APPARITIONS OF INNOCENCE
Commentary, May, 08 2001
Norman Solomon
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Media commentators are split about Bob Kerrey and what happened 32 years ago in the Vietnamese village of Thanh Phong. Some journalists seem eager to exonerate the former senator. Others appear inclined to turn him into a lightning rod for nationa...
Weisbrot: Bob Kerrey's Nightmare Tells the Story of Vietnam
Commentary, May, 07 2001
Mark Weisbrot
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Some people are wondering why the New York Times and CBS' 60 minutes II would spend two and a half years investigating war crimes allegedly committed by former Senator Bob Kerrey 32 years ago in Vietnam. But this is journalism at its best: it is f...
Russell: Craig Shirley Does the Disabled
Commentary, May, 02 2001
Marta Russell
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Craig Shirley is the guy whose PR firm created the newly formed Disabled Americans for Death Tax Repeal. Disabled Americans for Death Tax Repeal ran a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal and Washington Times to lobby Congress to abolish the fe...
Solomon: The Digital Promise Of A Global Village
Zmag Article, May, 01 2001
Norman Solomon
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The Digital Promise Of A Global Village
Barsamian: Liberating the Mind from Orthodoxies
Zmag Article, May, 01 2001
David Barsamian
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Liberating the Mind from Orthodoxies
Herman: THE MEDIA AT THE BARRICADES IN SUPPORT OF "FREE TRADE"
Commentary, April, 30 2001
Edward Herman
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Back at the time of the struggle over the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) in 1993, the mainstream media lined up in solid phalanx in its support, and Meg Greenfield, opinion editor of the Washington Post explained the one-sidedness of ...
Pilger: Academia is silent on imperialism, as German universities were during the rise of the Nazis
Commentary, April, 29 2001
John Pilger
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The other day, I attended a conference at the University of Sussex on the "new imperialism". What was extraordinary was that it took place at all. Julian Saurin, who teaches in the school of African and Asian studies at Sussex, said that, in ten y...
Edwards: To The Mad House With Them
Commentary, April, 16 2001
David Edwards
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In his study of obedience in modern society, psychologist Stanley Milgram wrote, "There is always some element of bad form in objecting to the destructive course of events, or indeed, in making it a topic of conversation." Milgram noted that even ...
Herman: UNCLE CHUTZPAH GETS BACK INTO THE RING
Commentary, April, 09 2001
Edward Herman
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Now that the humanitarian warrior Bill Clinton has been replaced by a compassionate conservative extremely close to the oil industry, military-industrial-complex, and Christian Right/"pro- life" (fetal, that is, not post-fetal) forces, what may we...
Solomon: U.S.-CHINA DISPUTE: FROM OTHER SIDE OF MEDIA WINDOW
Commentary, April, 06 2001
Norman Solomon
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It's not easy to look at ourselves as others might see us. For a Êcountry, the need is especially acute in times of international crisis -- Êbut that's when nationalism and other reflexive biases are most likely to Êbecome pivotal. One of the way...
Bagdikian: A SECRET IN THE NEWS: THE COUNTRY'S PERMANENT POOR
Commentary, April, 03 2001
Ben Bagdikian
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It can be the best of times or the worst of times, but whether in prosperity or recession, there is one constant in the United States economy--the richest country in the world has maintained a permanent class of Americans who are poor. That is not...
Solomon: Reporting On AIDS in Africa
Zmag Article, April, 01 2001
Norman Solomon
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Reporting On AIDS in Africa
Solomon: Bad News Bears Change Tone of Media Script
Commentary, March, 28 2001
Norman Solomon
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When the Ameritrade company launched a $200 million marketingÊ drive to explain the joys of online trading in autumn 1999, a barrage of TVÊ commercials invited viewers to join in the fun. The news was bullish, and Êthe firm's motto -- "Believe in ...
Herman: THE MEDIA-RIGHTWING POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GAMBIT RENEWED: HOROWITZ AND REPARATIONS
Commentary, March, 24 2001
Edward Herman
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The heavy media attention being given to rejections of David Horowitz's ad on reparations for slavery is a throwback to the rightwing and "liberal media" political correctness campaign of 1991. In that earlier campaign, it was the alleged free spe...
Albert: Not Free Speech
Commentary, March, 24 2001
Michael Albert
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Ed Herman has laid waste the pretensions of those bleating over the plight of poor abused David Horowitz that they are sincerely concerned about free speech. But there is more to the situationÉso letÕs address another aspect. Setting aside mainst...
Glass: The first casualty
Commentary, March, 22 2001
Charles Glass
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IN 1984 I filed a report to ABC News on Israeli death squads in south Lebanon that was never broadcast. My camera crew and I had spent a week travelling the roads of south Lebanon in the tracks of plainclothes assassins whom United Nations sold...
Solomon: OBSTINATE MEMORY AND PURSUIT OF THE PRESENT
Commentary, March, 15 2001
Norman Solomon
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Henry Kissinger usually has an easy time defending the indefensible on national television. But he faced some pointed questions during a recent interview with the PBS "NewsHour" about the U.S. role in bringing a military dictatorship to Chile. ...
