As Talks Fail Media Mounts a Strike on Iran’s Nuclear Facilities
The media acts as if the development of nuclear weapons were a fait accompli on the part of Iran.
The Great White Mancave
A study of three prominent op-ed sections highlights their byline diversity problem and the conservative tilt of the nation’s top columnists.
To Know Your “Enemy,” Know Yourself: Towards a More Profound Objectivity
Much more effort is expended on figuring out what makes Islamic extremists tick than on what motivates the will to dominate of the United States.
Overthrow Wall Street
We may not yet have reached our Tahrir Square moment, but it’s looming.
News Flash: Americans Aren’t Anti-Worker
Polls have found Wisconsin Gov. Walker’s union-busting tactics to be widely unpopular despite the major media’s presumption that the opposite would be true.
The Media Flunks WikiLeaks 101
Pressures are mounting internationally for us to behave ourselves, as we have recently been forced to do in Egypt.
Renovating The New York Times Op-Ed Section
A former Martha Stewart Living executive editor gets a pivotal job at the Grey Lady.
WikiLeaks: An Inventive New Threat to the Propaganda System (Part 2)
A comprehensive overview of reactions to WikiLeaks’ Iraq documents.
WikiLeaks: An Inventive New Threat to the Propaganda System (Part 1)
A comprehensive overview of reactions to WikiLeaks’ Iraq documents.
Deficit Fascinates Media–Its Causes, Not So Much
One of the deficit’s biggest causes–George W. Bush’s tax cuts–deserves more attention.
Hidden From Headlines: The Top Censored Stories of 2009-2010
“The late New York University media scholar Neil Postman once said about America, ‘We are the best entertained least informed society in the world.’ That was twenty-five years ago and after two-plus decades of more deregulation and the growth of conglomerates in the media, that trend has continued.” Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff will discuss how corporate news media distracts Americans from crucial information by replacing it with a steady diet “of tabloidized, trivialized, and outright useless information laden with personal anecdotes, scandals, and gossip.”
McClellan Right: Press Too Deferential
The former White House press secretary is right: mainstream journalists were “deferential, complicit enablers” in the lead up to the Iraq War. But Congress surrendered its voice and failed to question the intelligence.
Winter Soldier: Iraq and Vietnam, Abu Ghraib & My Lai
27 years after the first Winter Soldier, IVAW documents the illegality of the Iraq War, its strategy, and implementation.
The Quagmire in Iraq
Facts and figures on the mounting human and fiscal costs of the Iraq War to the United States and Iraq.
Adolescent Tantrum
One year ago, our greatest fear was that the president, still unable to master his hormones, would try to go mano a mano with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.