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Wilpert: New York Times to Oliver Stone
Commentary, July, 01 2010
Gregory Wilpert
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It is truly amazing how a long-time Latin America correspondent who accuses Oliver Stone’s recently released documentary “South of the Border” of “mistakes, misstatements and missing details,” manages to get practically every single statement of h...
Pilger: There Is a War on Journalism
Znet Article, June, 30 2010
John Pilger
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It’s been a week since Rolling Stone published its article on General Stanley McChrystal that eventually led to him being fired by President Obama. Since the article came out, Rolling Stone and the reporter who broke the story, Michael Hastings, h...
Dimaggio: No Repeal for the Whaling Ban
Znet Article, June, 28 2010
Anthony Dimaggio
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Whaling has been banned internationally for 24 years, but this did not stop countries like Japan, Norway, and Iceland from defying the ban – by claiming various loopholes to and exemptions from the 1986 ban.
Fisk: Fighting Talk: The New Propaganda
Znet Article, June, 27 2010
Robert Fisk
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Journalism has become a linguistic battleground – and when reporters use terms such ‘spike in violence’ or ‘surge’ or ‘settler’, they are playing along with a pernicious game, argues Robert Fisk.
Dimaggio: Strategic Interests at the Empire’s Periphery
Znet Article, June, 22 2010
Anthony Dimaggio
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The conflict in Kyrgyzstan has ushered in one of the most pressing humanitarian crises that Americans aren't hearing about. There's been relatively little attention to Kyrgyzstan - a mountainous, landlocked Muslim country in Central Asia - by eit...
Schechter: Memories And Misery In CNN Land While Homeowners
Commentary, June, 20 2010
Danny Schechter
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Somehow, I can’t escape CNN. Last Saturday I joined Ted Turner, Wolf Blitzer and more than 300 current and former CNN employees at a celebration of the network’s 30th anniversary at the National Press Club in Washington. I was there as one of the ...
Dimaggio: A Tale of Two Raids
Znet Article, June, 15 2010
Anthony Dimaggio
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As an avid follower of international and U.S. media, it’s been an interesting couple of weeks. Following more than a dozen papers throughout the globe, I can honestly say that the Israeli flotilla raid Americans have read and heard about is radic...
Goodman: The Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Framing the Narrative
Znet Article, June, 13 2010
Amy Goodman
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They called it “Operation Sea Breeze.” Despite the pleasant-sounding name, Israel’s violent commando raid on a flotilla of humanitarian aid ships, which left nine civilians dead, has sparked international outrage. The raid occurred in the early-mo...
Cook: The moral failure of American liberals
Znet Article, June, 11 2010
Jonathan Cook
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The ostracism of Helen Thomas, the doyenne of the White House press corps, over her comment that Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine” and “go home” to Poland, Germany, America and elsewhere is revealing in several ways. In spite of an apolo...
Dimaggio: Rogue State Politics: Erasing International Law in Israel’s Attack on Gaza
Znet Article, June, 05 2010
Anthony Dimaggio
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There has been much intense discussion of Israel’s recent attack against a flotilla of aid ships that was travelling to Gaza, intent on violating the blockade imposed by Israel against the government of Hamas and the Palestinian people. Much of t...
Herman: The New York Times as War Mongers
Zmag Article, June, 04 2010
Edward Herman
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Some favorite illustrations of war propaganda in the U.S.
Pilger: The Black Art Of ‘Master Illusions’
Commentary, June, 03 2010
John Pilger
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How do wars begin? With a “master illusion”, according to Ralph McGehee, one of the CIA’s pioneers in “black propaganda”, known today as “news management”. In 1983, he described to me how the CIA had faked an “incident” that became the “conclusive...
Vltchek: Discredited And Servile – Western Mass Media Perverts Information About Thailand
Commentary, May, 25 2010
Andre Vltchek
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Rebellion had been crushed and Bangkok streets were covered with blood, mostly that of poor Thai peasants with their origins in the country's north or northeast. Armored vehicles had crashed through the barricades made of old tires and bamboo ro...
Friel: Bjorn Lomborg on CO2
Znet Article, May, 11 2010
Howard Friel
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Politically and scientifically speaking, the most important fact to know about global warming is that the world must reduce carbon dioxide emissions very steeply and very quickly, despite the fact that this is probably the most complicated and com...
Dimaggio: Twisted Minds, Part I
Znet Article, May, 11 2010
Anthony Dimaggio
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Right wing crooks and liars have pulled off one of the most stunning assaults on progressive organizing in decades. I’m speaking specifically about the forced dissolution of ACORN and the manufactured public anger at the organization’s “scandals.”
Suggett: Fighting Corruption of Persecuting Political Prisoners in Venezuela?
Znet Article, April, 15 2010
James Suggett
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As Venezuela heads toward its fifteenth internationally monitored election in ten years, the international media assault against the democratically-elected Chavez government is intensifying. On April 3rd, New York Times correspondent Simon Romero ...
Dimaggio: Tiger Woods, the Decline of News, & the Future of the Left
Znet Article, April, 14 2010
Anthony Dimaggio
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Tiger Woods’ new Nike commercial marks his return to the Masters and his renewed dominance of the television spotlight following a groundswell of attention late last year. Whatever one thinks of Tiger Woods, saturation coverage of this fallen ido...
Jensen: The Collapse of Journalism/The Journalism of Collapse: New Storytelling and a New Story
Commentary, March, 27 2010
Robert Jensen
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There is considerable attention paid in the United States to the collapse of journalism -- both in terms of the demise of the business model for corporate commercial news media, and the evermore superficial, shallow, and senseless content that is ...
Cromwell: NATO's Fire Sale - One Dead Afghan Child, $2,000
Commentary, March, 23 2010
David Cromwell
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In December, BBC news online had posted these two brief ‘balanced’ reports of the US-led killing of the Afghan...
Schechter: On The Seventh Anniversary of the War On Iraq: Spotty Coverage, A Few Protests, and A Desire to "Move On" To Make It All Disappear
Commentary, March, 21 2010
Danny Schechter
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American media loves anniversaries of major events. They become ideal "news pegs" to do follow-up stories. You would think that they would have pulled out the stops for the seventh anniversary of the US war on Iraq, a war that was described by the...
