Nancy Altman on GOP Social Security Attack, Daniel Ellsberg Revisited
When Daniel Ellsberg died, media burnished their own reputation as truth-tellers while somehow dishonoring the practice of truth-telling.
ACTION ALERT: What Can ‘Now Be Told’ by NYT About Pentagon Papers Isn’t Actually True
Please tell the New York Times to set the historical record straight by correcting its story to note that Daniel Ellsberg did in fact give the Pentagon Papers to the Times.
Foreign Policy Sees ‘Repression’ in Vietnam’s Fight Against Coronavirus
In the US, the government may surveill you, but at least it doesn’t protect your health.
Remembering the Gulf of Tonkin, and the Consequences of Wanting to Believe
US journalists reported official claims about the Gulf of Tonkin incident as absolute truths, ignoring countervailing evidence and opening the floodgates for the bloody Vietnam War and the deaths of over 50,000 Americans and millions of Southeast Asians.
And Now, a Word From Henry Kissinger…
Henry Kissinger is making the rounds again–mostly reminding us that elite media love to fawn over Henry Kissinger.
Asking What Kissinger Thinks—but Not What He Did
Henry Kissinger counts on his friends in the elite media to not bother him with questions about his past.
A Cabinet of Peaceniks?
It goes to show you how limited the debate over warmaking is when politicians whose records are mostly pro-war can be portrayed as war skeptics. That’s what is happening with Barack Obama’s new cabinet picks: Sen. John Kerry for secretary of State and former Sen. Chuck Hagel as Defense secretary.
The Martin Luther King You Still Don’t See on TV
As we approach the Monday holiday, we’re hearinga Pentagon lawyer suggest that Martin Luther King would support the war in Afghanistan. That makes it an ideal time torecall a 1995 column by FAIR founder Jeff Cohen and longtime associate Norman Solomon (Media Beat, 1/4/95). The full column appearsbelow, and is archived here. The Martin Luther […]
Corporate Media ‘Default Position’: ‘War Must Go On’
Media Monitors Network has the latest column from Norman Solomon (8/26/09), in which the longtime analyst of corporate media boosterism for U.S. wars considers a recent swath of stories that “have compared President Johnson’s war in Vietnam and President Obama’s war in Afghanistan.” True, “the comparisons are often valid,” Solomon finds, “but a key parallel […]
Walter Cronkite’s Other War
The Media Bloodhound blog’s Brad Jacobson has a post (7/22/09) adding some depth to the Walter Cronkite as belated-Vietnam-War-critic story: Following his death last week, various network news tributes replayed footage of Cronkite’s influential ’68 on-air editorial. Yet scrubbed from the memorializing were similar instances of Cronkite’s journalistic candor regarding Iraq, such as his 2006 […]
Venerating — but Not Emulating — Journos of Yore
In a piece about current media “Celebrating Cronkite While Ignoring What He Did” by (belatedly) condemning the U.S. war on Vietnam, Salon blogger Glenn Greenwald (7/18/09, ad-viewing required) addresses another recently passed war reporter as well: When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam died, media stars everywhere commemorated his death as though he were one of […]
