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Schechter: 'WE ARE THE WORLD' AS AN OLDIE: "BEEN THERE, DONE THAT"
Mar 17, 2000
As the story is told, it was a slow news day at NBC back in 1985 when staffers looked up at an incoming satellite feed on one of their many monitors. The newsroom fell silent as a parade of harrowing images from the dying fields of Ethiopia streamed from
Solomon: NPR FLOATS AN OMBUDSMAN, BUT PROBLEMS RUN DEEP
Mar 13, 2000
What if a big restaurant chain announced that it was hiring a chief inspector -- and filled the job with the person who'd been in charge of the company's kitchens? We might roll our eyes if the incoming inspector proclaimed from the outset that the meals
Shalom: Diallo Case
Mar 04, 2000
During the Vietnam War, the court martial trials of Lt. William Calley and other U.S. military personnel who massacred hundreds of unarmed civilians at My Lai was deeply contentious. Conservatives opposed the trials as besmirching the good name of the U.S
Solomon: BILL BRADLEY, NEWS MEDIA AND "THE POLITICS OF AMBIGUITY"
Feb 17, 2000
Andrew Jackson won the White House in 1828 with a fresh approach to oratory. "Jackson was the first president to master the liberal rhetoric," wrote historian Howard Zinn, who called it "the new politics of ambiguity -- speaking for the lower and middle c
Solomon: E Vandalism Intrudes on Right to be Heard
Feb 12, 2000
A specter is haunting cyberspace -- the specter of e-vandalism. Media alarms have been loud in recent days: Electronic commerce is under siege. A virtual crime wave threatens to wreak havoc on the World Wide Web. Any site is vulnerable, no matter how big
Shalom: Red Herrings
Feb 11, 2000
In December 1975, after receiving a green light from U.S. President Gerald and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Indonesian President Suharto launched an invasion of East Timor. The weapons for the attack came from the United States. "Of course there we
Schechter: At the Top of the World
Feb 09, 2000
When demonstrators packed the streets of Seattle last December to scuttle the World Trade Organization meeting and shout about their dissatisfaction with economic globalization, some journalists described them as "politically correct" activists.
Solomon: AOL / Time Warner: Calling the Faithful to Their Knees
Jan 21, 2000
And so, early in the year 2000, it came to pass that visions of a seamless media web enraptured the keepers of pecuniary faith as never before. A grand new structure, AOL Time Warner, emerged while a few men proclaimed themselves trustees of a holy endeav
Shalom: Humanitarian Intervention
Jan 18, 2000
The issue of humanitarian intervention arises again, propelled by the crises in Kosovo and East Timor and by the memories of the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Some analysts have used these cases to support new principles of international relations. But to assure
Schechter: Attica, Hurricane, and Mumia
Jan 17, 2000
ATTICA! It's a word I hadn't heard in a number of years. It was a word I will never forget, and not just because of Al Pacino's memorable invocation of the term in the movie Dog Day Afternoon. Attica was one of the first stories I dissected in my early da
Solomon: A PRo-Democracy Movement
Dec 26, 1999
It's a pro-democracy movement. And it's global. The vibrant social forces that converged on Seattle -- and proceeded to deflate the WTO summit -- are complex, diverse and sometimes contradictory. Yet the threads of their demands form a distinct weave: We
Schechter: MY GLOBAL(IZED) NEIGHBORHOOD: TODAY SEATTLE,TOMORROW TIMES SQUARE?
Dec 12, 1999
The protesters who traveled from across the country and the world to Seattle were inspired by the rare chance to go mano a mano with a usually remote manifestation of globalization.
Solomon: Free Trade's Happy Face Peels Off
Dec 03, 1999
SEATTLE -- After enjoying a free ride in American news media for many years, the World Trade Organization just hit a brick wall. The credit should go to a vast array of civic activists -- represented by tens of thousands of protesters from every continent
Solomon: Nearing Global Summit, WTO On High Media Ground
Nov 23, 1999
When thousands of protesters converge on Seattle at the end of this month to challenge the global summit of the World Trade Organization, they're unlikely to get a fair hearing from America's mass media.
Shah: Our Deeply Twisted Understanding of the WorldÂ
Nov 21, 1999
"Do people in India leave their dead in the street?" This was the question posed to my family by a coworker invited for dinner. (She wasn't invited back.)
Shah: Our Deeply Twisted Understanding of the WorldĂ
Nov 21, 1999
"Do people in India leave their dead in the street?" This was the question posed to my family by a coworker invited for dinner. (She wasn't invited back.)
Solomon: The Twain Most Americans Never Meet
Nov 19, 1999
With the start of 2000 less than two months away, I've been thinking about a beloved American writer who stuck his neck out the last time people went through a change of centuries.
Schechter: The Media Channel
Nov 13, 1999
An IPO a day seems to keep the market in play as Internet deals continue to hit the jackpot throwing up new e-commerce driven sites and throwing off a new crop of instant gazillionaires. Business schools across the world report their best students droppin
Solomon: When Online Trading Offers a Reason to Believe
Nov 09, 1999
If you're watching much television these days, you've probably seen a lot of commercials for online investing. Many large brokerage firms are now urging people to play the stock market via the Internet. So, in routine fashion, TV spots dramatize cyber-tra
Mar 23, 2000
Russian democracy rode high in the late 1980s and into the early 1990s. Glasnost created a genuine culture of citizen participation in political life. Sterile arguments remain over whether this was done to preserve communism or tear it down. Whatever the