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Cole: Pressuring Qatar to close down Aljazeera
In a bid completely to return the Middle East to the old system of strict government media censorship, four countries have demanded that Qatar close down the Aljazeera television channel
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One of the most common tropes in US media is that the US military always goes to war reluctantly
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Solomon: The Media Surge Against Bernie Sanders
When the momentum of the Bernie campaign gained powerful traction as a threat to the corporate order, big media efforts to trash him went over the top
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Trapped in their hall of mirrors the broadcasters and press wrote off Jeremy Corbyn. They have to change and reflect the world they report on
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Interview on Journalism and History and Why ‘Palestinians Already Have a Voice’
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Baker: Washington Post’s War on the Disabled
At a time when an ever-larger share of national income...
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Johnson: 12 Interviews, No Climate Change Questions
If the most existential crisis of our generation isn’t taken seriously by the media, how can we expect the public—much less the president—to do so?
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Emersberger: A Response to Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi
The far-right succeeds when liberals like Taibbi join them
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Political appointees are changing the rules to let administration allies crowd out local voices on local TV
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The people whom the Trump administration most wants to punish and silence are the government officials who provide the news for the stories
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Freedman: Corbyn’s debate and bias in the British media
What are the lessons to be learned from Corbyn’s performance on Monday night?
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Chomsky: Climate Change, Nukes, Syria, WikiLeaks & More
Interview about climate change, nuclear weapons, North Korea, Iran, the war in Syria and the Trump administration’s threat to prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
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Cohn: The Meaning of Assange’s Persecution
Nearly five years ago, Ecuador granted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange...
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Baroud: How Palestine Disappeared from US Media Coverage
Palestinian emotions were of no consequence, neither to the Trump entourage, nor, of course, to the New York Times or others in mainstream media
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I recall a time in America where this kind of proposal would be considered an affront to decency. Now it’s the baseline for negotiations
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Essam: Egypt Silencing Independent Media
The Egyptian government’s efforts to crack down on critical media platforms reached news heights this week
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Azzawi: Questions about Manchester Massacre and Jeremy Corbyn
Glenn Greenwald said in a recent interview with Amy Goodman...
ZMag Media
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Phillips: Propaganda, Fake News, and Media Lies
Both PR and propaganda seek to change behaviors and ideas among the masses in support of the agendas of public and private institutions.
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Herman: The New Anti-Russian Hysteria
It is sad to see the liberals carried away on the wave of hysteria about the supposed Russian information warfare menace and possible influence over or even capture of the Trump presidency. It is also very dangerous to human welfare as it helps consolidate the power of the military-industrial complex
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Street: Reflections on the Not-so Public Broadcasting System
the news and commentary one finds on PBS is in rich tune with the narrow capitalist parameters of acceptable coverage and debate that typify the more fully and explicitly for-profit and commercialized corporate media
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who is going to contain the United States? The U.S. political system has failed its populace and the world and has imposed no brakes on the war machine
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Herman: Public Editors & Structural Bias
Sullivan claims that the NYT has and should maintain “abiding attention to society’s have nots.” To the war on labor and decline of labor unions, which they have scanted for years?
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Wittner: Getting the Story Wrong: The Distortion of Politics by the Press
On the night of April 22, three days after the presidential primary, seven words buried at the end of a Times Union blog let slip the fact that Sanders had won the 20th Congressional district
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Koehler: Opening the Closed Political Culture
In just over a dozen words, the paper managed not only to trivialize everything two presidential candidates stood for, and not only to reference the myth that Nader caused Al Gore to lose an election he didn’t in fact lose, but also to obliterate the last six months of a presidential campaign that had permanently shaken up the political status quo
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Herman: News Fit to Print But Not Printed, Part Two
In Part 1, I began with a case where the New York Times belatedly acknowledged that it had failed to print news fit to print, news which, not coincidentally, contradicted a party-line theme the editors had enthusiastically and uncritically supported five years earlier
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Herman: News Fit to Print But Not Printed, Part One
The daily front page claim by the management of the New York Times that they provide “All the News That’s Fit to Print” is comical in its audacious scope. “All” covers an awful lot of ground, and if pressed the editors might even concede that something “fit to print” might occur in places not covered by their journalists or correspondents
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If Hillary Clinton was Queen of Chaos, Obama is surely King. Iraq, Libya, and Syria have been reduced to a chaotic state, and Obama has a heavy responsibility for these developments. There was also Obama’s widening use of drone warfare and declared right and intention to bomb any perceived threat to U.S. “national security” anyplace on earth.
Video Media
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Martin: Opposition Violence at Venezuela Protests
Violent opposition protesters attempt to intimidate reporters
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Discussion on a wide range of topics from the development of his personal political views to the control of information and media
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Barlow: UK Election Polls Tighten
Britain's June 8 general election race is tightening between Labour and Tories and how the mainstream British media is losing credibility in the process
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Koerner: Massive Protests in Venezuela
While international media focused almost exclusively on the opposition protests and clashes with the police, the pro-government protests were equally as large
Blogs Media
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: Media Coverage Misrepresents Yemen’s Real Problems
Yemen has found itself splashed all over the news again...
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Peterson: Srebrenica-Related Graves Through 2002
On behalf of the Bosnian Serb defendant Ljubiša Beara in...
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Paul: ‘The War You Don’t See’: Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel/Palestine
Global Policy Forum, Blog http://globalpolicyinbrief.blogspot.com/ Seven months prior to the...
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Kearns: The “middle class mob”: press coverage of Saturday’s UK Uncut action
Discourses around protests develop pretty quickly such that it's tricky...
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Sinclair: Email exchange with the BBC’s Mark Mardell about US military aid to Egypt
Please see below an email exchange I had in January...
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Campagna: What Are We Struggling For? – Seminar
Last year’s student protests saw a new generation take to...
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Dominick: NY Times’s Sympathy for the Devils
I've spent my entire adult life writing media analysis, so...
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Peterson: Solidarity Versus Indifference — Part 4
When citizens of foreign countries are denied their democratic rights,...
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Peterson: Solidarity Versus Indifference — Part 3
When citizens of foreign countries are denied their democratic...
Audio Media
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Schechter: Michael Albert On Participatory Media
A former member of Students for a Democratic Society, Michael would go on to develop, along with Robin Hahnel, an alternative to market capitalism called participatory economics.
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Wilpert: Announcing TeleSUR English
Greg Wilpert is director of teleSUR English, a newly launched multimedia website that is sponsored by teleSUR, the Latin American TV channel that is funded by the left governments of Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Uruguay, Argentina, Nicaragua, and Cuba
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Bennis: Afghanistan after the Wikileaks War Logs
Interview about the impact of the Wikileaks documents and the...
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Pilger: Journalism and the War on Terror
John Pilger is an acclaimed Australian journalist and documentary maker....
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Robbins: Address to National Association of Broadcasters
A renowned actor, director and writer, Robbins used his keynote...