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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 ...

Znet Article Solomon: Acts of God, Acts of Media

Znet Article, January, 08 2005 Norman Solomon
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The new year has scarcely begun, but Americans watching television have already heard a lot about God.   When Larry King interviewed George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton the other night, CNN presented ample split-screen evidence that the Lord tran...

Znet Article Solomon: Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2004

Znet Article, December, 11 2004 Norman Solomon
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The P.U.-litzer Prizes were established a dozen years ago to provide special recognition for truly smelly media performances. As usual, I’ve conferred with Jeff Cohen, founder of the media watch group FAIR, to sift through the large volu...

Znet Article Solomon: Media Disremorse

Znet Article, December, 09 2004 Norman Solomon
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Early in the coldest season, optimists think of the day after solstice. It's predictable: the hemisphere will start tilting toward more light and warmth. But in the politics of human societies, there's no reliable way to tell how long a bone-rattl...

Znet Article Solomon: A Voluntary Tic in Media Coverage on Iraq

Znet Article, November, 18 2004 Norman Solomon
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When misleading buzzwords become part of the media landscape, they slant news coverage and skew public perceptions. That's the story with the phrase "Iraqi forces" -- now in routine use by U.S. media outlets, including the country's most influenti...

Znet Article Solomon: Holy War

Znet Article, November, 11 2004 Norman Solomon
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The conflict in Iraq has become a holy war. In both directions. On the surface, the most prominent headline on the New York Times front page Nov. 10 was simply matter-of-fact: "In Taking Fallujah Mosque, Victory by the Inch." Yet it's not mere ha...

Znet Article Solomon: Nader's Game of Chicken

Znet Article, October, 31 2004 Norman Solomon
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Ralph Nader won't receive more than 1 percent of the vote nationwide on Election Day, but he's already the winner in a spectacular game of "chicken." After the vast majority of former allies jumped off his electoral vehicle, Nader kept flooring th...

Znet Article Solomon: Two Weeks To Go

Znet Article, October, 21 2004 Norman Solomon
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We're at a moment in history when progressives must work together -- not with a false kind of unity that papers over differences, but instead with a candid kind of unity that recognizes and fights for a vital common goal. Our collective task is to...

Znet Article Solomon: Bush Media Endgame

Znet Article, October, 14 2004 Norman Solomon
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With the presidential debates now behind us, the struggle for the White House will tilt even more toward decentralized media battles for electoral votes. Between now and Election Day, vast resources will go toward spinning local news coverage in s...

Znet Article Solomon: Rove's Brain and Media Manipulation

Znet Article, September, 01 2004 Norman Solomon
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  I just saw a horror movie -- "Bush’s Brain" -- the new documentary based on a book with the same name by journalists James Moore and Wayne Slater. The book’s subtitle is "How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential." Iâ̈́...

Znet Article Solomon: How the News Media Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Rumsfeld

Znet Article, August, 20 2004 Norman Solomon
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The nation’s top dog of war is frisky again. Donald Rumsfeld has returned to high visibility -- after a couple of months in the media doghouse following revelations about torture at the Abu Ghraib prison -- now openly romancing the journ...

Znet Article Solomon: A Time of Butterflies and Bombers

Znet Article, August, 13 2004 Norman Solomon
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We saw butterflies turning into bombers. ...

Znet Article Solomon: Hope Is Not On the Way, But Hopefully Bush Is On the Way Out

Znet Article, July, 30 2004 Norman Solomon
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No, hope does not gallop in like Paul Revere. And it certainly doesn’t arrive breathless from a corporate party convention.   Movements for peace and social justice can bring realistic hope -- not with rhetoric but with the tough da...

Znet Article Solomon: Macho Politics and Major Consequences

Znet Article, July, 22 2004 Norman Solomon
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With two words, the governor of California has managed to highlight the confluence of anti-gay bias and misogyny. Open contempt for "girlie men" would have raised fewer eyebrows in the past. Reactions to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s put-down of...

Znet Article Solomon: Terrorism and the Election:

Znet Article, July, 19 2004 Norman Solomon
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Tom Ridge, the federal official in charge of defending the United States against terrorism, was on message when he told a July 14 news conference: "We don't do politics at Homeland Security." Such high-level claims of patriotic purity have been ro...

Znet Article Solomon: The Limits of Media Dream Machines

Znet Article, July, 06 2004 Norman Solomon
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A recent Associated Press dispatch -- headlined “Gadget May Help Sleepers Choose Dreams” -- told the story of a new product that “can be programmed to help sleepers choose what to dream.” Made in Japan, the 14-inch ...

Znet Article Solomon: Why I Changed My Voter Registration Today

Znet Article, June, 28 2004 Norman Solomon
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This morning I mailed a form changing my party registration from “decline to state” to the Green Party. It’s a tiny individual step in response to a hugely important collective action -- the party’s decision at its ...

Znet Article Solomon: Fascism

Znet Article, June, 25 2004 Norman Solomon
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When a federal judge compares George W. Bush to Benito Mussolini, is that newsworthy?   After the conservative daily New York Sun broke the story about a speech by Judge Guido Calabresi of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, few media outlets...

Znet Article Solomon: Nader and the Green Party's Presidential Choice for 2004

Znet Article, June, 03 2004 Norman Solomon
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Nader and the Green Party's Presidential Choice for 2004

Znet Article Solomon: The Coming Backlash Against Outrage

Znet Article, May, 12 2004 Norman Solomon
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Looking at visual images from U.S.-run prisons in Iraq, news watchers now find themselves in the midst of a jolting experience that roughly resembles a process described by Donald Rumsfeld: "It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realizati...

Znet Article Solomon: Country Joe Band

Znet Article, May, 06 2004 Norman Solomon
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Taking the stage at a community center in the small Northern California town of Bolinas, a group of four musicians quickly showed...

Znet Article Solomon: This war and racism

Znet Article, May, 06 2004 Norman Solomon
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Among the millions of words that have appeared in the U.S. press since late April about abuse and torture at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, one has been notably missing: Racism. Overall, when it comes to racial aspects, the news coverage is qu...

Znet Article Solomon: Staying the Media Course in Iraq

Znet Article, May, 01 2004 Norman Solomon
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On his way to confirmation as U.S. ambassador to Iraq, the current U.N. envoy John Negroponte was busily twisting language like a pretzel at a Senate hearing the other day. The new Baghdad regime, to be installed on June 30, will have sovereignty....

Znet Article Solomon: How the

Znet Article, April, 15 2004 Norman Solomon
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When the anchor of public television’s main news program goes out of his way to tell viewers that he’s setting the record straight about a recent historic event, the people watching are apt to assume that they’re getting ...

Znet Article Solomon: The Quest for a Monopoly on Violence

Znet Article, April, 08 2004 Norman Solomon
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With warfare escalating in Iraq, syndicated columnist George Will has just explained the logic of the occupat...

Znet Article Solomon: Media Strategy Memo

Znet Article, April, 03 2004 Norman Solomon
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Some of the most closely guarded documents in the White House are sure to be the ones written by the president's top media strategist. The public will never get to see the key memos from Karl Rove, but a typical one these days might read something...

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