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Herman: CENSORSHIP AS A PACIFICA MANAGEMENT TOOL
Commentary, November, 02 2000
Edward Herman
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Studying the recent history of Pacifica over the past several weeks, I have been once again impressed with how important a role censorship has played in the tactics and apparent strategy of the Pacifica management. Censorship by the use of gag r...
Solomon: Media Spin &the Israeli Occupation
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Norman Solomon
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Media Spin &the Israeli Occupation
Cromwell: Silent Democracy
Commentary, October, 24 2000
David Cromwell
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"It's sociologically interesting, though scary", said the actor Anthony Sher in a recent interview, "that you can be inside an evil system and be somehow unaware of it." South African by birth, Sher was talking about the former system of apartheid...
Cromwell: Silent Democracy
Commentary, October, 24 2000
David Cromwell
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"It's sociologically interesting, though scary", said the actor Anthony Sher in a recent interview, "that you can be inside an evil system and be somehow unaware of it." South African by birth, Sher was talking about the former system of apartheid...
Schechter: RED STAR OVER THE UN: The Media Downplays Human Rights in China
Commentary, October, 15 2000
Danny Schechter
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As the United Nations opens its Millennial Summit in New York September 6 with an expected 150 heads of state in attendance, the world organization is trying to refocus its mission and revive its credibility. (Never mind the cost of staging the wo...
Solomon: MEDIA SPIN REMAINS IN SYNC WITH ISRAELI OCCUPATION
Commentary, October, 14 2000
Norman Solomon
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The formula for American media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is simple: Report on the latest developments in the fragile "peace process." Depict U.S. officials as honest brokers in the negotiations. Emphasize the need for restraint ...
Bronski: Heterosexuality: A Romance of the Right
Commentary, October, 13 2000
Michael Bronski
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Imagine my appalled surprise when I discovered that I was quoted as a "radical advocate of same-sex marriage" in, of all places, this month's Commentary -- the last place where I expect to be noticed. Also Ð and this is a telling detail Ð I am not...
Chomsky: none
Zmag Article, October, 01 2000
Noam Chomsky
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Common Courage Press Review by Michael Hardesty For a couple of months in the spring and summer of 1999 many western liberals thought they were reliving the glorious days of World War II—the good war—as the social democrats...
Schechter: From Sydney To Prague: Newspeak Clouds Global Coverage
Commentary, September, 28 2000
Danny Schechter
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LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND: Poor NBC. They spent a small fortune to scoop up the rights to the Olympic Games, and now no one in the United States is watching. To get the games, they paid buckeroo bucks, even reportedly "donating" a cool million to the ...
Schechter: Surviving "Survivor" While Thinking Of Abbie
Commentary, September, 25 2000
Danny Schechter
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Wonder what Mr. Survival of the Fittest Charles Darwin would be thinking as the surreality show "Survivor" moves from the realm of television into the arena of TV legend. CBS has cashed in already, and all l6 of the "survivors" of this staged sitc...
Mokhiber: Killing Africa with Kindness
Commentary, September, 16 2000
Russell Mokhiber
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With the announcement of a billion-dollar-a-year U.S. government loan program for African countries to buy AIDS drugs, the fight to deliver affordable drugs to people with HIV/AIDS in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world has entered its th...
Schechter: Speaking Back to the Media
Commentary, August, 20 2000
Danny Schechter
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There used to be something called equal time and the right to reply to TV editorials and coverage. I am reminded of this by the publication, in a thin booklet called Poems for the Nation, of the text of a previously unpublished television address ...
Burchill: Heroes and Villains
Commentary, August, 16 2000
Scott Burchill
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In his first lecture on Indonesian soil after being banished for 26 years, Benedict Anderson spoke about the bewildered expression on the faces of his Indonesian students over the years at Cornell University whenever he asked them "who in Indonesi...
Herman: THE HACK STRIKES AGAIN!: KRUGMAN ON NADER
Commentary, July, 29 2000
Edward Herman
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In his op-ed column of July 23rd entitled "Saints and Profits," Paul Krugman shows once again why the New York Times put him on as a regular (for a more extended discussion, see my "Krugman On Economists As Hacks: Or, 'Mirror Mirror on the Wall',"...
Schechter: Long Live Chairman Levin!
Commentary, July, 23 2000
Danny Schechter
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A long time ago, in the days when evil empires threatened freedom-loving peoples everywhere, there were a few men we were taught to fear. They led massive, top-down international networks of true believers committed to infiltrating our minds and w...
Herman: THE NEW YORK TIMES VERSUS NADER--AND DEMOCRACY
Commentary, July, 07 2000
Edward Herman
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In its editorial, "Mr. Nader's Misguided Crusade" (June 30), the New York Times assails Nader's candidacy and campaign on grounds that are partly fraudulent and misleading (as I describe below). But it is also clear that this attack is based ultim...
Schechter: Newman's Own PR War (On Nuclear War)
Commentary, June, 11 2000
Danny Schechter
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When he took off his sunglasses, you knew it was screen star Paul Newman. Those blue eyes always give him away. One day last week, I found myself staring into them from behind a video camera, as Newman recorded a message beginning with a recollect...
Solomon: AD INDUSTRY: GIVING WOMEN SPECIAL TREATMENT
Commentary, June, 09 2000
Norman Solomon
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Last fall, when Jean Kilbourne's new book "Deadly Persuasion" was arriving on shelves, Publishers Weekly praised it as "a wake-up call about the damaging effects of advertising in our media-saturated culture." But six months later, the mass media'...
Solomon: U.S. NEWS MEDIA: A SECURITY ZONE FOR ISRAEL
Commentary, June, 03 2000
Norman Solomon
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One phrase -- "security zone" -- sums up an entire era of media spin about Israel's 22-year occupation of southern Lebanon.
