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Solomon: Intervention Spin Cycle
May 08, 2005
FORTY YEARS AGO, on the morning of April 26, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson spoke with a top State Department official about fast-moving events in the Dominican Republic. A popular rebellion was on the verge of toppling a military junta and restoring the
Schechter: The Unreported Vietnam-iraq Parallel
May 07, 2005
New York May 2: There is a word missing in most of the coverage of Iraq. It's a ghost-laden word that conjures up distressing memories that Washington and most of our media prefer to keep in that proverbial "lock box," hidden away in dusty archives and fo
Street: Reflections On The Costs Of Being Left...and How To Reduce Them
May 04, 2005
Don't let the title of this essay throw you. I'm happy to have been a person of the left since for the last two and half decades or so. I've derived considerable personal satisfaction and no small sense of community from being part of that sizeable slice
Solomon: The New Pope and Journalism’s Crisis of Faith
Apr 22, 2005
The papacy of Benedict XVI confronts journalists with a key question: How much critical scrutiny is appropriate when a religious leader gains enormous power?
Solomon: The New Pope and JournalismÕs Crisis of Faith
Apr 22, 2005
The papacy of Benedict XVI confronts journalists with a key question: How much critical scrutiny is appropriate when a religious leader gains enormous power?
Shiva: Wto, Patents On Lifeforms And Amendments In India's Patent Law
Apr 13, 2005
On 26th of December, the day of the tsunami, the Government of India introduced a Patent Ordinance which we named the tsunami law, since it threatens to tear down the entire fabric of food security and health security we had built carefully and democratic
Schechter: Miscovering Anti-war Protest (again)
Mar 26, 2005
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Schechter: The Passion Of Giuliana Sgrena
Mar 16, 2005
Italian Journalist Giuliana Sgrena became an icon in Iraq, a role model of a caring journalist of conscience kidnapped by parties unknown. He plight mobilized the people of Italy with virtually the whole county demanding her release.
Street: National Narcissism and the Racist, Neo-McCarthyite Assault on Ward Churchill
Mar 06, 2005
By now, ZNet readers are familiar with the reactionary witch hunt against the prolific radical indigenist professor, author, speaker, and activist Ward Churchill, who was mugged by fascist FOX News thug Bill O'Reilly and then prevented from making a speec
Solomon: Iraq Media Coverage: Too Much Stenography, Not Enough Curiosity
Feb 27, 2005
Curiosity may occasionally kill a cat. But lack of curiosity is apt to terminate journalism with extreme prejudice.
Schechter: Where Was The Press When This Was Going On?
Feb 23, 2005
Perhaps now that "the Gates" have festooned themselves across New York's Central Park, we can bid adieu to the use of that term to connote political scandal. After Watergate, begat Contragate, we have had a cloned procession of almost obligatorily named o
Shalom: Phoenix Rising
Feb 10, 2005
The Newsweek story that the Pentagon is considering the "Salvador option" for Iraq has gotten much play in progressive circles, but it left two unanswered questions: First, how credible was the story given that it was based on anonymous sources and denied
Schechter: Exclusive: The State Of The Media Address
Feb 09, 2005
(Disclosure: Mediachanel.org obtained this document from usually unimpeachable sources. We cannot verify it. One document expert we consulted opined that its font style and syntax bears an uncanny resemblance to work written on the G 4 Mac Powerbook used
Solomon: Media Sense and Sensibilities
Jan 25, 2005
At a pair of British daily newspapers -- the Independent and the Guardian -- plus the Observer on Sunday, journalists are far more willing than their U.S. counterparts to repeatedly take on powerful interests. Tough questions get pursued at length and in
Shiva: Tsunami Teachings: Reflections for the New Year
Jan 23, 2005
Gaia could not have picked a more appropriate time and place to send us a message of her hidden powers, and the message that we are Indians and Indonesians, Sri Lankans and Swedes, Thai's and Maldivians only secondarily - we are first and foremost citizen
Schechter: Media Crisis 2004: Summing Up and Moving Forward
Jan 08, 2005
NEW YORK, December 17, 2004 -- It is that time of the year again, the time for closing out the news year, a time of summing up, and looking ahead. A year ago, at this time, I wrote:
Street: The Manly Scent of the Hummer
Dec 31, 2004
I know a young lady in Chicago who has a curious reaction whenever she sees a HUMMER while driving in the city: she raises her middle finger and screams "go to Hell you rich gas-guzzling imperialist pig" at the top of her lungs. She's about 5 foot 3 and h
Solomon: The Limits of “Man Bites Dog†Stories
Dec 29, 2004
The usual notion of big news is the unusual. Journalists are taught to look for “man bites dog†stories -- the events that raise eyebrows and make us think, “Wow!â€
Solomon: The Limits of ÒMan Bites DogÓ Stories
Dec 29, 2004
The usual notion of big news is the unusual. Journalists are taught to look for Òman bites dogÓ stories -- the events that raise eyebrows and make us think, ÒWow!Ó
May 15, 2005
The cover story of the Time Magazine of March 14, 2005 was dedicated to the theme, "How to End Poverty". It was based on an essay by Jeffrey Sacks "The End of Poverty", from his book with the same title. The photos accompanying the essay are homeless chil