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Commentary Solomon: The Twain Most Americans Never Meet

Commentary, November, 19 1999 Norman Solomon
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With the start of 2000 less than two months away, I've been thinking about a beloved American writer who stuck his neck out the last time people went through a change of centuries.

Commentary Peters: East Timor: Reparations and Responsibility

Commentary, November, 17 1999 Cynthia Peters
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The New York Times reported on October 25 the claim that the United States had "poured billions" into East Timor. The next day the Times ran a "correction," saying that in fact "Washington's foreign aid" to East Timor "has not amounted to billions."

Commentary Peters: East Timor: Reparations and Responsibility

Commentary, November, 17 1999 Cynthia Peters
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The New York Times reported on October 25 the claim that the United States had "poured billions" into East Timor. The next day the Times ran a "correction," saying that in fact "Washington's foreign aid" to East Timor "has not amounted to billions."

Commentary Herman: The Times and East Timor

Commentary, November, 14 1999 Edward Herman
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Seth Mydans's October 31 piece on the Indonesian departure from East Timor, "A Calamitous Era Plays Out Quietly For East Timorese," with its admission that 200,000 had died in Indonesia's 24 year failed pacification effort, including its final "ra...

Commentary Schechter: The Media Channel

Commentary, November, 13 1999 Danny Schechter
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An IPO a day seems to keep the market in play as Internet deals continue to hit the jackpot throwing up new e-commerce driven sites and throwing off a new crop of instant gazillionaires. Business schools across the world report their best students...

Commentary Solomon: When Online Trading Offers a Reason to Believe

Commentary, November, 09 1999 Norman Solomon
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If you're watching much television these days, you've probably seen a lot of commercials for online investing. Many large brokerage firms are now urging people to play the stock market via the Internet. So, in routine fashion, TV spots dramatize c...

Commentary Herman: Missing Bodies

Commentary, October, 25 1999 Edward Herman
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A Reuters news dispatch of October 13 bylined Pristina, Kosovo, is entitled " Absolutely No Bodies Found in Supposed Mine Shaft Mass Grave in Kosovo." This follows an earlier report by a Spanish forensic team that went into a part of Kosovo allege...

Commentary Schechter: Dung on All Their Houses - The New Censorship

Commentary, October, 16 1999 Danny Schechter
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On October l, thousands of New York artists, activists and politicians rallied outside the Brooklyn Museum against threats by the city's Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to defund one of the city's preeminent cultural institutions because of one painting on...

Commentary Herman: How the media have protected U.S. Appeasement- Collusion with Indonesia in East Timor

Commentary, October, 12 1999 Edward Herman
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The mainstream U.S. media have performed a semi-miracle in reporting on the East Timor crisis, providing us with a model case of apologetics in the service of state policy.

Commentary Solomon: Media Time Capsule

Commentary, October, 11 1999 Norman Solomon
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On the first day of January, many public ceremonies will feature time capsules -- sealed long ago, when "the year 2000" sounded incredibly futuristic. Those containers, intended for opening at the start of the new millennium, presumably hold evoca...

Commentary Schechter: Fighting for the Soul of the BBC

Commentary, October, 08 1999 Danny Schechter
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British television has become a battleground--literally. On Labor Day, an enraged intruder vaulted over the BBC's new upgraded security barriers, raced up a set of stairs, threw a table through the window of a newsroom, jumped inside and started t...

Zmag Article Chomsky: World Order and its Rules

Zmag Article, October, 01 1999 Noam Chomsky
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Chomsky Despite the desperate efforts of ideologues to prove that circles are square, there is no serious doubt that the NATO bombings further undermine what remains of the fragile structure of international law. The U.S. made that clear in th...

Commentary Solomon: Big Media Applaud Big Media Merger

Commentary, September, 24 1999 Norman Solomon
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When the story about Viacom and CBS broke a few days ago, news accounts quickly depicted a match made in corporate heaven -- at more than $37 billion, the largest media merger in history. With the public kept outside the frame, it was a rosy picture.

Commentary Solomon: In the Nation's Capital, Media Fixations Prevail

Commentary, August, 21 1999 Norman Solomon
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Few phrases in American politics have more negative connotations than "inside the Beltway." In this rarified and unreal zone, we often assume, the activities of politicians and bureaucrats are disconnected from the main concerns of most Americans....

Commentary Solomon: Broadcasting and Democracy: Oil and Water

Commentary, August, 18 1999 Norman Solomon
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Is it really possible for broadcasting and democracy to mix? In theory, yes. But right now, the prospects look bleak.

Commentary Halimi: Media Critics of the World Unite

Commentary, August, 15 1999 Serge Halimi
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Few countries publish as many books and articles on media criticism as the United States. Logically, all of this good work has little to no effect on the shaping and publication of news. Any adequate criticism, which describes media indoctrination...

Commentary Glass: Hacks Versus Flacks

Commentary, August, 01 1999 Charles Glass
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The London media world is under fire and taking shelter. Prime Minister Tony Blair's head flack, Alistair Campbell, has challenged the patriotism of the British press. It's as if Sid Blumenthal had questioned the loyalty under fire of the New York...

Commentary Dominick: Reflections on Five Years of ZNetting

Commentary, July, 27 1999 Brian Dominick
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Five years ago this month, I installed a tiny telecommunications program in my 386 laptop computer, plugged in a 2400bps modem (yes, I said 24 hundred ), and logged onto ZNet, and that conglomeration of silicon and wires we call the Internet, for ...

Commentary Cagan: Some Concerns About the Internet as an Organizing Vehicle

Commentary, July, 21 1999 Leslie Cagan
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For reasons I don't totally understand, I was somewhat late in getting on line. About five years ago the small organization I coordinated - the Cuba Information Project - went on line, but usually the other staff person handled the email communica...

Commentary Solomon: Journalists Inspire Support for Community Radio / Pacifica Continues

Commentary, July, 18 1999 Norman Solomon
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Last Wednesday afternoon, radio journalist Aileen Alfandary stood on the sidewalk in front of the building where she has worked for many years. She looked out of place. The deadline for the KPFA evening news was fast approaching -- but all the doo...

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