—————— Aarons, Leroy Beyond balance: thorough coverage of gay controversies is still the exception (Ott), 1-2/02;27 Abbas, Mahmoud Nixed signals [when Hamas hinted at peace, U.S. media didn't take the message] (Ackerman), 9-10/06;10 ABC. see also Nightline ABC does "something useful" [programs on poor children], 11-12/91;19 ABC erased protesters [at the Oscars], 6/99up;3 ABC News goes for the gold, 9/92;16 ABC's 1984 cover-up for the gipper, 3-4/90;15 ABC's antiwar "reality check": world news tonight minimizes support for withdrawal (Hart and Naureckas), 10/05up;4 ABC's military analyst calls for "excessive force": CSIS's cordesman advocates brutality against Palestinians (Ackerman), 1-2/01;23 ABC's one-color TV, [...]
Search Results for: Jane Hunter
Feb
01
2008
Money Is the Real Green Power:
The hoax of eco-friendly nuclear energy
Nuclear advocates in government and the nuclear industry are engaged in a massive, heavily financed drive to revive atomic power in the United States—with most of the mainstream media either not questioning or actually assisting in the promotion. “With a very few notable exceptions, such as the Los Angeles Times, the U.S. media have turned the same sort of blind, uncritical eye on the nuclear industry’s claims that led an earlier generation of Americans to believe atomic energy would be too cheap to meter,” comments Michael Mariotte, executive director of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service. “The nuclear industry’s public [...]
Mar
01
1997
The Media and the Menopause Industry
Advertising has muted dangers of estrogen therapy
You don’t get product ads unless you praise the product. --Gloria Steinem, founding editor of Ms. In his book Adverse Reactions, Thomas Maeder recalls the philosophy of Harry Loynd, an old-time president of Parke-Davis who was legendarily blunt. Loynd’s oft-repeated motto was “Pills are to sell, not to take.” He regarded physicians as extremely gullible, and lectured his staff, “If we put horse manure in a capsule we could sell it to 95 percent of these doctors.” Were he still among us, Loynd might have a great giggle over the fact that Wyeth-Ayerst’s 50-year-old Premarin, boldly named for its featured [...]
Jan
01
1995
Haitian Women Are Out of Frame
And Their Abusers Are Out of Sight
When President Clinton sat down in front of U.S. television cameras to explain "why the U.S. is leading the international effort to restore democratic government in Haiti" (10/16/94), he emphasized the violation of Haitian women's human rights. "International observers uncovered a terrifying pattern of soldiers and policemen raping the wives and daughters of suspected political dissidents," Clinton said, "young girls, 13, 16 years old...children forced to watch as their mothers' faces are slashed with machetes." In Haiti and in the United States, there was hope that these words would translate into action. But a month after the landing of approximately [...]
Jul
01
1994
As Rwanda Bled, Media Sat on Their Hands
By Jane Hunter
As a genocide it ranks with the century's biggest--the Armenians, the Jews, the Cambodians. But this spring, as Western officials marked the 50th anniversary of the Nazi Holocaust, no one--least of all the U.S. government--lifted a finger to stop the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Rwandans. And U.S. media coverage played along with the Clinton administration's policy of handwringing. Almost daily since the Rwandan genocide began on April 6, broadcast media have aired horrific accounts and the major papers have featured the story on their front pages. The media seldom wavered, however, from their habitual racist portrayal of African [...]
Oct
01
1992
Steve Emerson
A journalist who knows how to take a leak
By Jane Hunter
There are thousands of ax-grinders in journalism, pushing tantalizing stories with few verifiable facts. Most collect rejection slips, but Steve Emerson finds one respectable media outlet after another for his work, which is sometimes nimble in its treatment of facts, often credulous of intelligence sources, and almost invariably supportive of the Israeli government. Although several major news outlets are in tune with Emerson's worldview--he got his start writing for the New Republic and U.S. News and World Report, two magazines with a strong pro-Israel bent--his draw for the media is access to sources unavailable to other writers. That formula stood [...]
