Media
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The Dutch Connection By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
The recent De Telegraaf article[i] ‘revealing’ the Dutch intelligence cooperation with the CIA is a propaganda piece aimed at undermining the credibility of United Nations, its specialized agency, the IAEA, and its chief Mohammad ElBaradei. It also seeks to demoralize the Iranians and undermine their resolve in confronting outside enemies. Continue reading
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IN THE EYE OF THE HURRICANE: AS ONE STORM THREATENS, ANOTHER IS OUT OF MEDIA SIGHT, OUT OF OUR MINDS By Danny Schechter
One catastrophe may be coming. The other may be already here, and a third, well, no one wants to talk about that. You can move populations away from hurricanes. You can adore or make fun of unusual politicians. But what do you do about a financial tsunami that everyone knows is structural but many would… Continue reading
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Recycling the spin cycle By Jerome Spring
Before joining the London Independent to become its diplomatic editor, Anne Penketh trailed around Moscow, Paris and New York as a foreign correspondent. Apparently, she tries to “separate the spin cycle from the news cycle”. In a main article on Russia and Georgia in the Independent of the 20 August, she asserted that “the Georgian… Continue reading
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A Critical Juncture for Media Reform
Source: MediaChannel.org [Editor’s note: To join the conversation, go to http://www.freepress.net/actionnetwork/node/83] Welcome to the Free Press Action Network — I will be back tonight, September 27th at 9 pm EST to discuss the state of the U.S. media and why we are at a critical juncture for media reform, as well as answering your questions.… Continue reading
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Thomas Friedman: Hooked on War by Norman Solomon
Reading his “Letter From Baghdad” column in the New York Times on Wednesday, you’d never know that Thomas Friedman has a history of enthusiasm for war. Now he laments that Iraq is bad for the United States — “everyone loves seeing us tied down here” — stuck in the “madness that is Iraq.” And he… Continue reading
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Backspin for War: The Convenience of Denial By Norman Solomon
The man who ran CNN’s news operation during the invasion of Iraq is now doing damage control in response to a new documentary’s evidence that he kowtowed to the Pentagon on behalf of the cable network. His current denial says a lot about how “liberal media†outlets remain deeply embedded in the mindsets of pro-military… Continue reading
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How Truth Slips Down the Memory Hole by John Pilger
Source: Antiwar.com One of the leaders of demonstrations in Gaza calling for the release of the BBC reporter Alan Johnston was a Palestinian news cameraman, Imad Ghanem. On 5 July, he was shot by Israeli soldiers as he filmed them invading Gaza. A Reuters video shows bullets hitting his body as he lay on the… Continue reading
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Let’s turn the ‘civil war’ into a media war By William Bowles
I must say that the independent media have done a damn good job in exposing the sham that is the ‘civil war’ in Iraq. However, before we get all righteous, the corporate/state media still need to be called to task over their distorted and misleading coverage, replete with every stereotype; ethnic, religious, ‘tribal’, et al,… Continue reading
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They Shoot Journalists, Don’t They? By Norman Solomon
To encourage restraint in war coverage, governments don’t need to shoot journalists — though sometimes that’s helpful. Thirteen journalists were killed while covering the war and occupation in Iraq last year, says a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists. The deaths were a subset of 36 on-the-job fatalities related to journalistic work across… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 