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Znet Article Solomon: Party Like It’s 1932: The Obama Option

Znet Article, April, 24 2008 Norman Solomon
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Seventy-six years ago, to many ears on the left, Franklin D. Roosevelt sounded way too much like a centrist. True, he was eloquent, and he’d generated enthusiasm in a Democratic base eager to evict Republicans from the White House. But his campaig...

Znet Article Solomon: Warfare and Healthcare

Znet Article, March, 15 2008 Norman Solomon
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It’s kind of logical. In a pathological way...

Znet Article Solomon: Edwards Reconsidered

Znet Article, January, 05 2008 Norman Solomon
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There have been good reasons not to support John Edwards for president. For years, his foreign-policy outlook has been a hodgepodge of insights and dangerous conventional wisdom; his health-care prescriptions have not taken the leap to single paye...

Znet Article Solomon: Memoir Interview

Znet Article, December, 12 2007 Norman Solomon
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I was born in DC, and grew up in Maryland in what was at the time a New Deal community—Greenbelt, which is still there. We moved around a bit, and then when I was eight my family moved to Calcutta for a year and a half. After that I landed back in...

Znet Article Solomon: How Sputnik contributed to the marriage of science and weaponry

Znet Article, October, 08 2007 Norman Solomon
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How Sputnik contributed to the marriage of science and weaponry

Znet Article Solomon: Hooked on War: Thomas Friedman's Deadly Addiction

Znet Article, September, 08 2007 Norman Solomon
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Hooked on War: Thomas Friedman's Deadly Addiction

Znet Article Solomon: From the Grave, a Senator Exposes Bloody Hands on Capitol Hill

Znet Article, July, 21 2007 Norman Solomon
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It was a chilling mome...

Znet Article Solomon: A Bloody Media Mirror

Znet Article, July, 10 2007 Norman Solomon
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A Bloody Media Mirror

Znet Article Solomon: Saddam's Unindicted Co-Conspirator: Donald Rumsfeld

Znet Article, November, 09 2006 Norman Solomon
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Saddam Hussein has received a death sentence for crimes he committed more than a year before Donald Rumsfeld shook his hand in Baghdad. Let's reach back into history and extract these facts:

Znet Article Solomon: Iraq Is Not a Quagmire

Znet Article, October, 03 2006 Norman Solomon
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The uproar over Bob Woodward’s new book has intensified the media focus on a basic controversy that’s summed up this way: Is Iraq a quagmire? Like many other debates that flourish in American mass media, the standard answers on bo...

Znet Article Solomon: Media Tall Tales for the Next War

Znet Article, September, 26 2006 Norman Solomon
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The Sept. 25 edition of Time magazine illustrates how the U.S. news media are gearing up for a military attack on Iran. The headline over the cover-story interview with Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is “A Date With a Dange...

Znet Article Solomon: The Hollow Media Promise of Digital Technology

Znet Article, September, 21 2006 Norman Solomon
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This is the time of year when media campaigns for the latest digital products are apt to go into overdrive. Schools are back in session, and the holiday sales blitz is getting underway. For the latest computerized gizmos, that means an escalating ...

Znet Article Solomon: Applauding While Lebanon Burns

Znet Article, July, 27 2006 Norman Solomon
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Syndicated columnist Richard Cohen declared in the Washington Post on July 25 that an-eye-for-an-eye would be a hopelessly wimpy policy for the Israeli government.      "Anyone who knows anything about the Middle East knows that proportionality i...

Znet Article Solomon: Their Barbarism, and Ours

Znet Article, June, 22 2006 Norman Solomon
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The Baghdad bureau chief of the New York Times could not have been any clearer.      “The story really takes us back into the 8th century, a truly barbaric world,” John Burns said. He was speaking June 20 on the PBS “NewsH...

Znet Article Solomon: Media Memorial Day

Znet Article, May, 29 2006 Norman Solomon
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People who are concerned about the state of the U.S. news media in2006 might pause to consider those who have lost their lives in the midst of journalistic neglect, avoidance and bias.      We remember that while TV and radio news reports tell th...

Znet Article Solomon: How Long Will MoveOn.org Fail to Oppose Bombing Iran?

Znet Article, April, 18 2006 Norman Solomon
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MoveOn.org sent out an email with the subject line “Don’t Nuke Iran” to three million people on April 12. ...

Znet Article Solomon: The Lobby and the Bulldozer: Mearsheimer, Walt and Corrie

Znet Article, April, 15 2006 Norman Solomon
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Weeks after a British magazine published a long article by two American professors titled “The Israel Lobby,” the outrage continued to howl through mainstream U.S. media.      A Los Angeles Times op-ed article by Council on Foreig...

Znet Article Solomon: When War Crimes Are Impossible

Znet Article, April, 04 2006 Norman Solomon
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  Is President Bush guilty of war crimes? To even ask the question is to go far beyond the boundaries of mainstream U.S. media. A few weeks ago, when a class of seniors at Parsippany High School in New Jersey prepared for a mock trial to assess...

Znet Article Solomon: Blaming the Media for Bad War News

Znet Article, March, 25 2006 Norman Solomon
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     Top officials in the Bush administration have often complained that news coverage of Iraq focuses on negative events too much and fails to devote enough attention to positive developments. Yet the White House has rarely picked direct fights w...

Znet Article Solomon: Blaming the Media for Bad War News

Znet Article, March, 25 2006 Norman Solomon
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     Top officials in the Bush administration have often complained that news coverage of Iraq focuses on negative events too much and fails to devote enough attention to positive developments. Yet the White House has rarely picked direct fights w...

Znet Article Solomon: War-Loving Pundits

Znet Article, March, 19 2006 Norman Solomon
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The third anniversary of the Iraq invasion was bound to attract a lot of media coverage, but scant recognition went to the pundits who helped to make it all possible.  Continuing with long service to the Bush administration's agenda-setting for w...

Znet Article Solomon: Smothering the King Legacy With Kind Words

Znet Article, February, 03 2006 Norman Solomon
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  Hours after Coretta Scott King died, President Bush led off the State of the Union address by praising her as “a beloved, graceful, courageous woman who called America to its founding ideals and carried on a noble dream.” For goo...

Znet Article Solomon: Spinning Us to Death

Znet Article, February, 03 2006 Norman Solomon
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In the months preceding the invasion of Iraq, Norman Solomon invited actor Sean Penn along with him on a trip to Baghdad. A syndicated columnist and Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, Solomon went to Iraq three times during t...

Znet Article Solomon: Domestic Lying

Znet Article, January, 29 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?" Many pundits and news outlets chortled at the unmasking of Frey as a liar. The reverberations spanned fro...

Znet Article Solomon: Ted Koppel at NPR

Znet Article, January, 18 2006 Norman Solomon
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No doubt many people are glad that Ted Koppel will become a regular voice on National Public Radio. He recently ended 25 years with ABC's "Nightline" show amid profuse media accolades. But what kind of journalist goes out of his way to voice ferve...

Znet Article Solomon: Axis of Fanatics -- Netanyahu and Ahmadinejad

Znet Article, January, 07 2006 Norman Solomon
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With Ariel Sharon out of the picture, Benjamin Netanyahu has a better chance to become prime minister of Israel.      He’s media savvy. He knows how to spin on American television. And he’s very dangerous.      Netanyahu spent a ...

Znet Article Solomon: Journalists Should Expose Secrets, Not Keep Them

Znet Article, December, 30 2005 Norman Solomon
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     Journalists should be in the business of providing timely information to the public. But some -- notably at the top rungs of the profession-- have become players in the power games of the nation’s capital.And more than a few seem glad...

Znet Article Solomon: NSA Spied on U.N. Diplomats in Push for Invasion of Iraq

Znet Article, December, 28 2005 Norman Solomon
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     Despite all the news accounts and punditry since the New York Times published its Dec. 16 bombshell about the National Security Agency’s domestic spying, the media coverage has made virtually no mention of the fact that the Bush admin...

Znet Article Solomon: A New Phase of Bright Spinning Lies About Iraq

Znet Article, December, 23 2005 Norman Solomon
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 Three days before Christmas, the Bush administration launched a new salvo of bright spinning lies about the Iraq war. “In an interview with reporters traveling with him on an Air Force cargo plane to Baghdad,” the Associated Press...

Znet Article Solomon: Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2005

Znet Article, December, 20 2005 Norman Solomon
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     More than a dozen years ago, I joined with Jeff Cohen (founder of the media watch group FAIR) to establish the P.U.-litzer Prizes. Ever since then, the annual awards have given recognition to the stinkiest media performances of the year.    ...

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