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Znet Article Weisbrot: International Campaign Around Venezuela's Elections Has Begun

Znet Article, March, 19 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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Venezuela has an election for its National Assembly in September, and the campaign has begun in earnest. I am referring to the international campaign. This is carried out largely through the international media, although some will spill over into ...

Znet Article Friel: Andrew Revkin’s Climate Centrism

Znet Article, March, 17 2010 Howard Friel
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In his 2001 book, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World, Bjorn Lomborg argued that the real state of the world’s environment was better than what the major environmental organizations and scientists have reported. T...

Commentary Pilger: Welcome to the world's first Murdochracy

Commentary, March, 12 2010 John Pilger
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Adelaide is Australia's festival city. Its arts festival is currently in swing. Polite debate, aesthetics and high-octane wine are putting the world to rights. With one exception. Adelaide is where Rupert Murdoch began his empire. The voracious tr...

Znet Article Friel: Lomborg’s Public Diplomacy, Part 1/5

Znet Article, March, 12 2010 Howard Friel
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Given his public diplomacy skills, if Bjorn Lomborg had worked for the Bush-Cheney White House, the world might still be thinking that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. This is because there has never been any evidence to supp...

Znet Article Emersberger: The Canadian Princes of Bel Air

Znet Article, March, 11 2010 Joe Emersberger
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Allegations against Aristide and his supporters have never been in short supply – especially those spread by the Canadian funded "human rights group" – RNDDH. However, a funny thing happened when these cases above were, very belatedly, tested in c...

Znet Article Dimaggio: Manufactured Dissent

Znet Article, March, 09 2010 Anthony Dimaggio
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Global warming has graduated to the status of one of the great enduring political issues of our time. Unfortunately, public discourse has taken a dramatic step backward in light of corporate media’s attacks against the scientific community. Scie...

Commentary Abu Jamal: Corporate Supremacy -- Still!

Commentary, March, 07 2010 Mumia Abu Jamal
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The recent Supreme Court decision on corporate personhood, The Citizen's United case, has evoked considerable comment, and even some indignation: "Corporations have the right to spend unlimited amounts of money on politicians?!" - "outrageous!"

Commentary Cromwell: Gates Of Delusion

Commentary, February, 28 2010 David Cromwell
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Since November last year, the public has been bombarded with the story of stolen emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, revealing a supposed "scandal" of scientific malpractice, stupidly and lazily named "climateg...

Znet Article Cook: Ethan Bronner and conflicts of interest

Znet Article, February, 26 2010 Jonathan Cook
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A recent assignment of mine covering Israel’s presumed links to the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh provoked some more thoughts about the New York Times reporter Ethan Bronner. He is the Jerusalem bureau chief who has been at the ...

Znet Article Street: Colonial War Media: Reflections on a Recent Issue of the New York Times

Znet Article, February, 20 2010 Paul Street
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Yes, the colonials are coming at “our” brave young troops with live ammunition. What next? I wonder if Chivers and his editors ever heard the following bit from the admittedly arch-cynical comedian George Carlin’s 2005 “Life is Worth Losing” show:...

Commentary Jensen: NY Times: No conflict of interest - with the conventional wisdom

Commentary, February, 13 2010 Robert Jensen
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The New York Times' public editor wrestled this week with conflict-of-interest charges sparked by the revelation that Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner's son had joined the Israeli army. The executive editor of the paper responded with a sensib...

Znet Article Emersberger: Benighted Journalists Assail Haiti

Znet Article, February, 12 2010 Joe Emersberger
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Decent people in North America have tried to help Haitians after the devastating earthquake that struck on January 12, but the corporate media has left them unequipped to do one of the most helpful things they can do - oppose their governments' ef...

Znet Article Edwards: Haiti - The Broken Wing

Znet Article, February, 04 2010 David Edwards
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It matters that the media have lavished so much attention on the aftermath of Haiti’s January 12 earthquake. The coverage has helped inspire people around the world to give of their time, energy and money in responding to the disaster.

Video Goodman: The Role of Media in the USA

Video, January, 26 2010 Amy Goodman
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Has the mainstream media in the US replaced serious coverage with "junk news" and tabloidism?

Commentary Jensen: Great television/bad journalism: Media failures in Haiti coverage

Commentary, January, 26 2010 Robert Jensen
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CNN's star anchor Anderson Cooper narrates a chaotic street scene in Port-au-Prince. A boy is struck in the head by a rock thrown by a looter from a roof. Cooper helps him to the side of the road, and then realizes the boy is disoriented and unabl...

Znet Article Kozloff: Latin/Middle Eastern Media: A Thorn in the Side of the U.S. Military in Haiti

Znet Article, January, 22 2010 Nikolas Kozloff
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Watch the U.S. media and its coverage of the crisis in Haiti, and you get the impression that Washington is a benevolent power doing its utmost to help with emergency relief in the Caribbean island nation. But tune into al-Jazeera English or South...

Znet Article Peterson: The Oliver Kamm School of Falsification

Znet Article, January, 22 2010 David Peterson
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An important and perhaps growing feature of official and strong-interest-group propaganda is the resort to personal attacks and flak to keep dissidents at bay and inconvenient thoughts out of sight and mind.

Znet Article Edwards: Nuclear Deceit - The Times And Iran

Znet Article, January, 15 2010 David Edwards
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On December 14, The Times announced that it had obtained documents about Iran’s nuclear program that revealed “a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator. This is the component of a nuclear weapon that triggers the explosion”. (Leading art...

Commentary Cromwell: Were Afghan Children Executed By Us-Led Forces? And Why Aren't The Media Interested?

Commentary, January, 14 2010 David Cromwell
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Ignoring or downplaying Western crimes is a standard feature of the corporate Western media. On rare occasions when a broadcaster or newspaper breaks ranks and reports 'our' crimes honestly, it is instructive to observe the response from the rest ...

Znet Article Baker: Look for News Articles from the NRA's "Firearms Gazette" at the Washington Post

Znet Article, January, 13 2010 Dean Baker
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Andrew Alexander, the Washington Post's ombudsman, gave an argument about the Post's use of copy produced by the Peter Peterson funded "Fiscal Times." This argument can also be used to justify the use of "news" stories generated by any "news" serv...

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