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Znet Article Solomon: George W. Strangelove and the Triumph of Nuclear Faith

Znet Article, July, 19 2005 Norman Solomon
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The silver-spooned cowboy in the Oval Office just presented a fine new saddle to the nuclear horseman of the apocalypse. It was a gift worthy of hell. “President Bush agreed yesterday to share civilian nuclear technology with India, rever...

Znet Article Solomon: Rove/Blumenthal

Znet Article, July, 18 2005 Norman Solomon
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Sidney Blumenthal, a former assistant and senior advisor to President Clinton, takes on Norman Solomon of the Institute for Public Accuracy and author of "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death" on Iraq, the Democrats,...

Znet Article Solomon: War and Venture Capitalism

Znet Article, July, 15 2005 Norman Solomon
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During the Vietnam War, one of the peace movement’s more sardonic slogans was: “War is good business. Invest your son.” In recent years, some eminent pundits and top government officials have become brazen about praising w...

Znet Article Solomon: Withdrawal Would Cripple U.S. Credibility

Znet Article, July, 04 2005 Norman Solomon
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Obsession with seeming unequivocal and immovable has been frequent in the Oval Office. During the Vietnam War, such fixations were indifferent to the fact that the war was losing the U.S. government moral credibility around the world. But from the...

Znet Article Solomon: Fourth of July

Znet Article, July, 02 2005 Norman Solomon
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Am I the only U.S. citizen who finds the annual Fourth rituals to be cloying and deceptive? Yeah -- just me and probably tens of millions of other people. Ever since the Vietnam War, the Fourth of July has seemed to be a celebration of the past i...

Znet Article Solomon: Memo to Iraq War

Znet Article, July, 02 2005 Norman Solomon
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On the propaganda front, it’s been another tough week for Washington’s war makers. But for them, where there’s hope there’s death. Let’s address the Iraq war directly: It’s too soon to know whether...

Znet Article Solomon: From Tehran to Washington, an Axis of Demagogues Just Got More Dangerous

Znet Article, June, 28 2005 Norman Solomon
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Ten days ago, in one of southern Tehran’s poor neighborhoods, I interviewed some voters in line to cast ballots for Iran’s next president. After a while, when an official at the polling station asked who I thought would win, I repe...

Znet Article Solomon: Voluntary Amnesia in the Service of War

Znet Article, June, 23 2005 Norman Solomon
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Forget it! That seems to be an unstated motto for American media coverage of the Iranian presidential election. The axiom comes down to: “Don’t let history get in the way of spin.” Evasion smooths the way to the next war....

Znet Article Solomon: Gains for Democracy Could Jolt Iran's Theocrats and America's Neocons

Znet Article, June, 23 2005 Norman Solomon
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Iran's most repressive clerics and the USA's most militaristic neocons share a common interest: They're very eager to see the failure of Iranian activism for democracy and human rights. On the surface, no outlook could be farther from Washington'...

Znet Article Solomon: The Killing Street Memo

Znet Article, June, 18 2005 Norman Solomon
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While some Americans are exposing the deception for the latest war, others steadily lay the groundwork for the next one. Focus plenty of news reports on alienated youth in Iran, spotlighting despair that borders on nihilism. Meanwhile, give scant...

Znet Article Solomon: Lying for War

Znet Article, June, 06 2005 Norman Solomon
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You wouldn't know it from the recent media focus on Deep Throat, but the lies that Richard Nixon told about the Watergate break-in were part of his standard duplicity for the Vietnam War. It wasn't just that the Nixon administration engaged in sec...

Znet Article Solomon: The Silent Media Curse of Memorial Day

Znet Article, May, 26 2005 Norman Solomon
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     Memorial Day weekend brings media rituals. Old Glory flutters on television and newsprint. Grave ceremonies and oratory pay homage to the fallen. Many officials and pundits speak of remembering the dead. But for all the talk of war and rememb...

Znet Article Solomon: And Now, It's Time For ... "Media Jeopardy!"

Znet Article, May, 23 2005 Norman Solomon
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The endless show that seems to fill America's every waking moment -- and many of its nightmares -- could be called "Media Jeopardy!" Before proceeding, here's a reminder of the rules: Listen to the answer and then try to come up with the questio...

Znet Article Solomon: News Media and "the Madness of Militarism"

Znet Article, May, 16 2005 Norman Solomon
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Media activism has achieved a lot. But I don't believe there's anything to be satisfied with -- considering the present-day realities of corporate media and the warfare state. War has become a constant of U.S. foreign policy, and media flackery f...

Znet Article Solomon: Political Bluster and the Filibuster

Znet Article, May, 13 2005 Norman Solomon
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The battle over the filibuster is now one of the country’s biggest political news stories. The Bush administration seems determined to change Senate rules so a simple majority of senators, instead of three-fifths, can cut off debate and fo...

Znet Article Solomon: Nuclear Fundamentalism and the Iran Story

Znet Article, May, 05 2005 Norman Solomon
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Years from now, when historians look back at agenda-building for a missile attack on Iran, they should closely examine a story that took up the USA's most coveted space for media spin -- the upper right corner of the New York Times front page -- o...

Znet Article Solomon: Iraq: War, Aid and Public Relations

Znet Article, April, 29 2005 Norman Solomon
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American news outlets provided extensive -- and mostly laudatory -- coverage of Marla Ruzicka after she died in Baghdad on April 16. The humanitarian aid worker’s undaunted spirit and boundless dedication had endeared her to a wide array o...

Znet Article Solomon: When Media Dogs Don't Bark

Znet Article, April, 19 2005 Norman Solomon
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The recent decision by General Motors to pull its advertising from the Los Angeles Times has not gone over very well. "Blame the press," Daily Variety scoffed in mid-April, after several days of publicity about the automaker's move. "That's the l...

Znet Article Solomon: Beyond the Narrow Limits of News Coverage

Znet Article, April, 08 2005 Norman Solomon
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I was glad to open the New York Times last Monday and see the headline: “In Steinbeck’s Birthplace, a Fight to Keep the Libraries Open.” After visiting Salinas, Calif., over the weekend, I was eager to find out whether the ...

Znet Article Solomon: A Quarterly Report from Bush-Cheney Media Enterprises

Znet Article, April, 01 2005 Norman Solomon
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The first quarter of 2005 brought significant media dividends for the Bush-Cheney limited liability corporation. Stakeholders received windfalls as mainstream news outlets deferred to consolidation of power from the November election. A rollout ...

Znet Article Solomon: Little Reporting on Paranoia in High Places

Znet Article, March, 25 2005 Norman Solomon
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Journalists often refer to the Bush administration’s foreign policy as “unilateral” and “preemptive.” Liberal pundits like to complain that a “go-it-alone” approach has isolated the United St...

Znet Article Solomon: Why Iraq Withdrawal Makes Sense

Znet Article, March, 17 2005 Norman Solomon
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President Bush just told reporters that he has no intention of setting any timetable for withdrawal. "Our troops will come home when Iraq is capable of defending herself," he said. Powerful pundits keep telling us that a swift pullout of U.S. troo...

Znet Article Solomon: What They Really Mean...

Znet Article, March, 16 2005 Norman Solomon
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  Since the 1950s, many young Americans have first encountered critiques of mass media in the pages of Mad. With its intricate cartoons and satirical sendups, the monthly magazine gained a reputation for skewering politicians, advertisers, TV sho...

Znet Article Solomon: MoveOn.org: Making Peace With the War in Iraq

Znet Article, March, 11 2005 Norman Solomon
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Sadly, it has come to this. Two years after the invasion of Iraq, the online powerhouse MoveOn.org -- which built most of its member base with a strong antiwar message -- is not pushing for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. With a network of m...

Znet Article Solomon: When Junk Interrupts Junk

Znet Article, March, 04 2005 Norman Solomon
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Once in a while, mass media outlets give a fair hearing to radical ideas that make sense. But those ideas have little chance to take hold -- mainly because followup is scant. Instead of bouncing around the national media echo chamber, the offendin...

Znet Article Solomon: Ex-Presidents as Pitchmen: Touting Good Deeds

Znet Article, February, 26 2005 Norman Solomon
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An Associated Press dispatch from a Thai fishing village summed up the media spin: “Former President Bill Clinton’s voice trembled with emotion as he and George H.W. Bush put aside their once-bitter political rivalry...” ...

Znet Article Solomon: Great Media Critics: Intrepid for Journalism and Labor Rights

Znet Article, February, 20 2005 Norman Solomon
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When I think of newspaper journalists who became authors and had enormous impacts on media criticism in the United States, two names come to mind. One is George Seldes. As a young man, he covered the First World War and then reported on historic ...

Znet Article Solomon: Of Death Be Not Proud

Znet Article, January, 27 2005 Norman Solomon
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“The story today is going to be very discouraging to the American people,” President Bush said at a news conference Wednesday, hours after 37 American troops died in ...

Znet Article Solomon: A Shaky Media Taboo -- Withdrawal from Iraq

Znet Article, January, 20 2005 Norman Solomon
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The latest polls show that most Americans are critical of the war in Iraq. But the option of swiftly withdrawing all U.S. troops from that country gets little media attention.   So far this year, many news outlets have lapsed into conjecture on ...

Znet Article Solomon: Far from Media Spotlights, the Shadows of "Losers"

Znet Article, January, 13 2005 Norman Solomon
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A system glorifies its winners. The mass media and the rest of corporate America are enthralled with professionals scaling career ladders to new heights. Meanwhile, the people hanging onto bottom rungs are scarcely blips on screens. Far from the ...

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