Stories by Norman Solomon
Norman Solomon's latest book Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State (PoliPointPress) is available now. For more information go to www.madelovegotwar.com.
It's time to ask when the pundits who went after those that said President Bush would try to deceive the public might publicly concede that a valid and crucial point was made.
Posted on Jul 16, 2003, Source: AlterNet
With the next national Election Day scarcely 15 months away, most signs point to a new triumph for the politics of money.
Posted on Jul 10, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Media have a major impact on how people see the world. What those images tell us are shaped by the framing and context presented and our willingness to question their validity.
Posted on Jun 30, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The Democratic Leadership Council -- with its centrist, 'middle class' values -- can count on plenty of assistance from mainstream news media in 2004.
Posted on Jun 26, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Impeachment is still far from the national media echo chamber, but some rumblings are now audible as people begin to think about the almost unthinkable.
Posted on Jun 20, 2003, Source: AlterNet
In British newsprint, the spectrum of thought ranges so wide that a progressive-minded American might be tempted to move to England.
Posted on Jun 12, 2003, Source: AlterNet
In the long run, if leaders want to gain and maintain trust, it's helpful for their logic to be reasonably plausible rather than Orwellian.
Posted on Jun 6, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The most likely scenario for the spam problem is that it will keep getting worse. And we'll continue to do what we've already started to do -- get used to it.
Posted on Jun 3, 2003, Source: AlterNet
In the mass-media world deception is serious business.
Posted on May 29, 2003, Source: AlterNet
We're kept well-informed about how worried to be at any particular time. But all that media churning includes remarkably little that has any practical utility.
Posted on May 22, 2003, Source: AlterNet
If the dominant content of mainstream radio doesn't make you feel sick, then you're probably not paying close attention.
Posted on May 16, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Reports on the downside of this war have been few and far between in the U.S. media.
Posted on May 8, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Too often, "supporting" a candidate means lying about the candidate. Flaws rapidly disappear; virtues suddenly appear.
Posted on May 1, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Hans Blix, Dennis Kucinich and the Dixie Chicks are in very different lines of work -- but they're in the same line of fire from big media for the sin of strongly challenging the president's war agenda.
Posted on Apr 24, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Militarism in America is a runaway train on a death track.
Posted on Apr 17, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The U.S. government's long-held hostility to Al-Jazeera seems to be boiling over during the war on Iraq.
Posted on Apr 10, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Correspondents in the field have bonded with troops to the point that their language and enunciated outlooks are often indistinguishable.
Posted on Apr 3, 2003, Source: AlterNet
U.S. media outlets are hyping the military's superior technology and shrewd tactics and hoping to minimize coverage of civilian suffering, which might make the coalition "look bad."
Posted on Mar 27, 2003, Source: AlterNet
In the domestic media siege being maintained by top-notch spinners and shrewd political advisers at the White House, conscience is in the cross hairs.
Posted on Mar 20, 2003, Source: AlterNet
When a country – particularly "a democracy" – goes to war, the passive consent of the governed lubricates the machinery of slaughter.
Posted on Mar 13, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The mainstream U.S. press has wilfully ignored a leaked memo outlining the Bush administration's efforts to spy on members of the Security Council.
Posted on Mar 6, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Did the U.N. and the CIA cover up the release of information that contradicts Bush's claims about Iraq's WMD program? And why has there been no follow-up to a Newsweek article on the issue?
Posted on Feb 27, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The same boosters of corporate "globalization" are upset about certain types of global action -- such as the current grassroots movement against a war on Iraq.
Posted on Feb 20, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Powell owes much of his touted credibility to the fact that he's functioning inside a media bubble that protects him from direct challenge.
Posted on Feb 6, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Nothing is certain, but one specter is close: The missiles are coming. Probably within a few weeks.
Posted on Feb 3, 2003, Source: AlterNet
How are people in Washington reacting to the shocking number of people opposed to war?
Posted on Jan 23, 2003, Source: AlterNet
While the Jan. 20 issue of Time contains page after page of informative journalism, it also includes dozens of lucrative full-color ads pegged to the theme of health.
Posted on Jan 17, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Some White House reporters don't let their questions go unanswered.
Posted on Jan 9, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The competition for P.U.-litzers -- the annual award that pays tribute to the nation's foulest media performances -- was unusually fierce this year.
Posted on Jan 3, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The actor has become conspicuous for his willingness to take some real risks on behalf of peace.
Posted on Dec 20, 2002, Source: AlterNet
With 2002 nearing its end in the midst of great international tension, here's a sampling of some top U.S. media jargon.
Posted on Dec 12, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Illusions about previous wars and the deaths associated make the next one seem acceptable.
Posted on Dec 5, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Radio coverage of national and global events is scant at best, while local news -- once the pride of many AM radio stations -- is now an endangered species.
Posted on Dec 2, 2002, Source: AlterNet
If the United Nations, serving as a conduit of American power, is now worthwhile because it offers the best way for the United States to "legitimize its overwhelming might," how different is that from unilateralism?
Posted on Nov 21, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Imagine that you're at the ceremonial opening of a time capsule, half a century after some forward-looking Americans sealed it during a multimedia festival just before Thanksgiving 2002.
Posted on Nov 14, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Terrorism and war, and violence in general, strengthen the agendas of Bush and the hawks in Washington, and they use it to their considerable advantage.
Posted on Nov 7, 2002, Source: AlterNet
During the past dozen years, the intersection between two avenues, Pennsylvania and Madison, has given rise to media cross-promotion that increasingly sanitizes the organized mass destruction known as warfare.
Posted on Oct 31, 2002, Source: AlterNet
National cable news outlets have been fixated on sniper attacks while paying little attention to key election issues.
Posted on Oct 24, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Polls may seem to provide clarity in a confusing world. But all too often they amount to snapshots taken from slanted angles.
Posted on Oct 18, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The Democrats will never be able to equal Republicans' mind-numbing fervor for military madness. That may put the upcoming elections out of their reach.
Posted on Oct 10, 2002, Source: AlterNet
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