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Commentary Solomon: Bowing Down to Our Own Violence

Commentary, June, 10 2007 Norman Solomon
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Many days after the mass killings at Virginia Tech, grisly stories about the tragedy still dominated front pages and cable television. News of carnage on a vastly larger scale -- the war in Iraq -- ebbs and flows. The overall coverage of lethal vi...

Commentary Solomon: While McCain Walks in McNamara's Footsteps

Commentary, May, 03 2007 Norman Solomon
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The media spectacle that John McCain made of himself in Baghdad on April 1 was yet another reprise of a ghastly ritual. Senator McCain expressed "very cautious optimism" and told reporters that the latest version of the U.S. war effort in Iraq is ...

Commentary Solomon: Killing Them Softly

Commentary, April, 20 2007 Norman Solomon
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April is rapidly becoming the month of uncomfortable questions. The grotesque media feeding frenzy of angst that ensued over Don Imus says some mighty disquieting things about a society that for even one minute has to debate whether or not what h...

Commentary Solomon: The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV

Commentary, April, 16 2007 Norman Solomon
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It's become a TV ritual: Every year on April 4, as Americans commemorate Martin Luther King's death, we get perfunctory network news reports about "the slain civil rights leader."

Commentary Solomon: Awful Truth About Hillary, Barack, John... and Whitewash

Commentary, April, 13 2007 Norman Solomon
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The Pentagon's most likely next target is Iran.

Commentary Solomon: The Pragmatism of Prolonged War

Commentary, March, 30 2007 Norman Solomon
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The days are getting longer, but the media shadows are no shorter as they cover the war in Iraq through American eyes, squinting in Washington's pallid sun.

Commentary Solomon: The Headless Horseman of the Apocalypse

Commentary, February, 08 2007 Norman Solomon
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President Bush may be a headless horseman. But the biggest problem is what he rode in on.

Commentary Solomon: Powell, Baker, Hamilton -- Thanks for Nothing

Commentary, January, 07 2007 Norman Solomon
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When Colin Powell endorsed the Iraq Study Group report during his Dec. 17 appearance on "Face the Nation," it was another curtain call for a tragic farce.

Commentary Solomon: Is the USA the Center of the World?

Commentary, December, 30 2006 Norman Solomon
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Some things don't seem to change. Five years after I wrote this column in the form of a news dispatch, it seems more relevant than ever:

Commentary Solomon: Media Sham for Iraq War -- It's Happening Again

Commentary, December, 19 2006 Norman Solomon
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The lead-up to the invasion of Iraq has become notorious in the annals of American journalism. Even many reporters, editors and commentators who fueled the drive to war in 2002 and early 2003 now acknowledge that major media routinely tossed real ...

Commentary Solomon: The New Media Offensive for the Iraq War

Commentary, December, 05 2006 Norman Solomon
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The American media establishment has launched a major offensive against the option of withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq.

Commentary Solomon: How I Was Wrong About Thomas Friedman

Commentary, November, 11 2006 Norman Solomon
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In late October my column was a parody of how Thomas Friedman writes about the global economy. Since then, IÕve learned that I was in error on a matter that shines some light on the worldview of the syndicated New York Times columnist and best-sel...

Commentary Solomon: Channeling Thomas Friedman

Commentary, October, 30 2006 Norman Solomon
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Get ready for a special tour of a renowned outlook, conjured from the writings of syndicated New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. As the leading media advocate of Òfree tradeÓ and Òglobalization,Ó he is expertly proficient at explaining the w...

Commentary Solomon: Welcome to the Nuclear Club

Commentary, October, 16 2006 Norman Solomon
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Moments after hearing about North KoreaÕs nuclear test, I thought of Albert EinsteinÕs statement that Òthere is no secret and there is no defense; there is no possibility of control except through the aroused understanding and insistence of the pe...

Commentary Solomon: Welcome to the Nuclear Club

Commentary, October, 16 2006 Norman Solomon
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Moments after hearing about North Korea’s nuclear test, I thought of Albert Einstein’s statement that “there is no secret and there is no defense; there is no possibility of control except through the aroused understanding ...

Commentary Solomon: Spinning the Troop Levels in Iraq

Commentary, October, 01 2006 Norman Solomon
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September began with 140,000 American troops in Iraq -- 13,000 more than in late July.

Commentary Solomon: Bush vs. Ahmadinejad: A TV Debate We'll Never See

Commentary, September, 16 2006 Norman Solomon
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When Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, invited President Bush to engage in a "direct television debate," the White House predictably responded by calling the offer "a diversion." But even though this debate will never happen, it's worth conte...

Commentary Solomon: News Media's Love-Hate for Nuclear Weapons

Commentary, August, 19 2006 Norman Solomon
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Since the Soviet Union collapsed a decade and a half ago, nuclear weaponry has been mostly relegated to back pages and mental back burners in the United States. A big media uproar about nuclear weapons is apt to happen only when the man in th...

Commentary Solomon: Why Pretend That Hillary Clinton Is Progressive?

Commentary, July, 19 2006 Norman Solomon
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The scheduled speech by Sen. Hillary Clinton at the "Take Back America 2006" conference in Washington on June 13 is likely to intensify discussion about her relationship with the progressive grassroots of the Democratic Party.

Commentary Solomon: The Urbanity of Evil

Commentary, June, 13 2006 Norman Solomon
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The Urbanity of Evil

Commentary Solomon: Corporate Media and Advocacy Journalism

Commentary, June, 02 2006 Norman Solomon
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We see this kind of news story now and again. Sometimes we try to imagine the people behind the numbers, the human realities underneath the surface abstractions. But overall, the responses testify to journalism's failings -- and our own.

Commentary Solomon: When ÒDiplomacyÓ Means War

Commentary, April, 23 2006 Norman Solomon
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One of the nation's leading pollsters, Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center, wrote a few weeks ago that among Americans "there is little potential support for the use of force against Iran." This month the White House has continued to emph...

Commentary Solomon: When “Diplomacy” Means War

Commentary, April, 23 2006 Norman Solomon
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One of the nation's leading pollsters, Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center, wrote a few weeks ago that among Americans "there is little potential support for the use of force against Iran." This month the White House has continued to emph...

Commentary Solomon: Why Are We Here?

Commentary, March, 29 2006 Norman Solomon
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Why Are We Here?

Commentary Solomon: Other Shoe Dropping on Classified Leaks and Journalists

Commentary, February, 17 2006 Norman Solomon
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Ever since the disclosure of Valerie Plame's identity as an undercover CIA operative in July 2003, prominent Democrats have denounced that leak -- often with some kind of rhetoric about the sanctity of classified information. But reverence for kee...

Commentary Solomon: Domestic Lying: The Question That Journalists Don't Ask Bush

Commentary, February, 07 2006 Norman Solomon
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With great fanfare, Oprah Winfrey asked James Frey a question that mainstream journalists refuse to ask George W. Bush: "Why would you lie?"

Commentary Solomon: Media's War Images Delude Instead of Inform

Commentary, January, 15 2006 Norman Solomon
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The picture was perfect. It provided a moving portrait, an image that journalists called "iconic." It was true to the moment. Yet the photograph was deceiving in a way that media images often are -- showing us what's more apparent than real.

Commentary Solomon: Lamenting the Habitual

Commentary, October, 14 2005 Norman Solomon
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Dan Rather caused some ripples the other day when he lamented the state of U.S. news media. The former CBS anchor said "there is a climate of fear running through newsrooms stronger than he has ever seen in his more than four-decade career," accor...

Commentary Solomon: BushÕs Implicit Answer to Cindy SheehanÕs Question

Commentary, September, 07 2005 Norman Solomon
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President Bush has evaded Cindy SheehanÕs question, ÒWhat was the noble cause that my son died for?Ó But he provided a partial answer on the day that the New Orleans levees gave way.

Commentary Solomon: Bush’s Implicit Answer to Cindy Sheehan’s Question

Commentary, September, 07 2005 Norman Solomon
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President Bush has evaded Cindy Sheehan’s question, “What was the noble cause that my son died for?” But he provided a partial answer on the day that the New Orleans levees gave way.

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