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Finding it “more than ironic” and even “disturbing and more than a little sad,” Norman Solomon (Creators Syndicate, 1/17/09) points out that “at the same time that the United States is inaugurating a new presidency that marks the crashing of a racial barrier at the White House,” the African-American-centric News & Notes–a show “actually staffed […]
FAIR founder Jeff Cohen and longtime FAIR associate Norman Solomon have compiled their 17th annual list of “P.U.-litzer Prizes” (OpEd News, 12/18/08). Among this year’s “stinkiest media performances”: HOT FOR OBAMA PRIZE — MSNBC‘s Chris Matthews This award sparked fierce competition, but the cinch came on the day Obama swept the Potomac Primary in February–when […]
Recalling that “during the mid-1960s, the conventional wisdom was what everyone with a modicum of smarts kept saying: higher U.S. troop levels in Vietnam were absolutely necessary,” FAIR associate Norman Solomon is distressed to find (AntiWar.com, 12/9/08) that “today, the conventional wisdom is that higher U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan are absolutely necessary.” Responding to […]
FAIR associate Norman Solomon pens (Columbus Free Press, 10/13/08) a “Requiem for the Bailout Storyline”: More recent events should not be allowed to obscure the reality that the news media played a pivotal role in stampeding the country into a bailout that was unwise and unjust….
FAIR associate Norman Solomon tells Real News viewers (9/29/08) of lessons to be drawn from corporate U.S. media’s non-coverage of what was big news overseas during the run up to war on Iraqâ┚¬”ÂU.S. spies used the U.N. arms inspection process to identify future bombing targets and track Saddam Hussein’s movements
The superstar columnist George Will has an impressive vocabulary. Too bad it doesn’t include the words “I’m sorry.” Last year, Will led the media charge when a member of Congress dared to say that George W. Bush would try to deceive the public about Iraq. By now, of course, strong evidence has piled up that […]
A dozen years after the Gulf War, public perceptions of it are now very helpful to the White House. That’s part of a timeworn pattern: Illusions about previous wars make the next one seem acceptable. As George Orwell observed in 1984: “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.” […]
Months after the Exxon Valdez spill, national media began to focus on the damage not done by Exxon’s blunder, heralding Big Oil’s efforts to preserve Alaska’s environment. Out of the jaws of catastrophe, Exxon snatched a news spin increasingly to its liking.
