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Anderson: Southern Baptists
Graphic, June, 15 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
southern baptist convention, southern baptist
Anderson: Southern Baptists
Graphic, June, 15 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
southern baptist convention, southern baptist
Author: The Sport of Business/The Business of Sport in Media Ethics
Commentary, June, 14 2000
Guest Author
Author's ZSpace page
It is often asserted by conservatives, and widely taken as a fact by the general public, that the American news media are Òanti-business.Ó ItÕs a rather silly claim, given the capitalist/managerial framework in which U.S. journalists work, but it ...
Glick: History and Communications
Commentary, June, 13 2000
Ted Glick
Glick's ZSpace page
A few weeks ago I received a letter from someone who quoted Karl Marx as having once said, "History moves with the speed of communication." This quote struck me.
Group: An Offer You Can't Refuse?
Graphic, June, 12 2000
Contagion Media Group
Group's ZSpace page
prison labor, death penalty, imperialism, Uncle Sam
Herman: WHAT IS LIBERALISM?
Commentary, June, 12 2000
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
In a May 22 editorial in the liberal The American Prospect (TAP), which he edits along with Paul Starr, Robert Kuttner lauds radicals, for keeping moral demands to the fore and for pioneering on major issues that were central to democratic advance...
Wagner: Microsoft Ruling
Graphic, June, 11 2000
Pete Wagner
Wagner's ZSpace page
Bill Gates, Microsoft
Schechter: Newman's Own PR War (On Nuclear War)
Commentary, June, 11 2000
Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page
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...
Anderson: Missile defense
Graphic, June, 10 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
national missile defense, missile defense, nmd, star wars, sdi
Landau: "POOR PINOCHET"-- AN UPDATE ON THE TRIALS OF THE TYRANT
Commentary, June, 10 2000
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
The Santiago Appeals Court apparently voted 13-9 to revoke General Augusto Pinochet's parliamentary immunity. This makes Pinochet vulnerable to prosecution in Chile for allegedly ordering his subordinates to carry out a mass murder campaign - whic...
Solomon: AD INDUSTRY: GIVING WOMEN SPECIAL TREATMENT
Commentary, June, 09 2000
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
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'...
Anderson: Party fundraising
Graphic, June, 08 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
fundraising, money in politics, campaign finance
Author: AN EMBARGO TOO FAR
Commentary, June, 08 2000
Guest Author
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Mariam Hamza has beautiful eyes, a loving personality and immense courage. She is also a symbol of one of the greatest human rights abuses of our time. This four year old Iraqi leukaemia patient hit the headlines in 1998 when George Galloway, MP f...
Weisbrot: Labor in 2000: No Place to Go?
Commentary, June, 07 2000
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
In the movie version of Steven King's classic, "The Dead Zone," Christopher Walken reads the mind of the mother of a demonic serial killer. His psychic powers discern that she had long been aware of her son's vicious murders. His eyes widen with s...
Wise: Rebels Without a Clue: Neo-Confederacy and the Ironies of White Supremacy
Commentary, June, 06 2000
Tim Wise
Wise's ZSpace page
We Southerners are famous for wishful thinking: in fact, you could say it's something of a regional pastime. This should come as no surprise given our interminable heat in the summer which leaves nearly all wishing for rain to cool things down, an...
Author: Militant Mood Moving Black Youth To Fight For Change
Commentary, June, 05 2000
Guest Author
Author's ZSpace page
On April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King was gunned down as he stood on a hotel balcony in Memphis. He was in Memphis to support a strike by sanitation workers who carried bold signs proclaiming, I AM A MAN. At the time of his
Bonpane: Delegation to Colombia
Commentary, June, 05 2000
BlasŽ Bonpane
Bonpane's ZSpace page
What does Medellin mean to a U.S. citizen? Narco-terrorists, sicarios (hired assassins) and drug lords. It is actually a beautiful and mountainous city located at many altitudes, all of them comfortable.
Solomon: U.S. NEWS MEDIA: A SECURITY ZONE FOR ISRAEL
Commentary, June, 03 2000
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
One phrase -- "security zone" -- sums up an entire era of media spin about Israel's 22-year occupation of southern Lebanon.
Hightower: HUNGER REPORT BITES BUSH ON BUTT
Commentary, June, 02 2000
Jim Hightower
Hightower's ZSpace page
At the 1988 Democratic convention in Atlanta, I gave a podium-pounding speech in which I characterized George Bush the Elder as "a man who was born on third and thought he'd hit a triple."
Tokar: Gathering RAGE
Zmag Article, June, 01 2000
Brian Tokar
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One important feature of the actions in Seattle and Washington, DC was many activists’ focus on a serious new threat to our food and health: The rise of genetic engineering as the technology-of-choice in countless new areas of co...
