Search Results for: Ben Norton

May 7, 1998

News Media Hit Jackpot With State Lotteries

…goes into creating glamorous images for games like Super Lotto and Powerball. While few lottery players benefit from their gullibility, many print and broadcast outlets hit the jackpot. Overall, states…

July 1, 1996

Voodoo Journalism: Stereotypes, Official Sources Shape Reporting on Haiti

Jean Jean-Pierre

…Bertin was a pilot who used to transport drugs from Haiti to Miami for the Bennetts (Baby Doc Duvalier’s in-laws) in the late ’70s. It is most probable that he…

March 1, 1995

All the Right Moves

FAIR

…offering on many public television stations, funded by Olin and other right-wing foundations, is Think Tank, a talkshow hosted by neoconservative Ben Wattenberg (Extra! Update, 6/94). In hearings last summer…

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