Author: Norman Solomon

[Letter and reply printed in current edition of CJR:] Whose Supplement? The Columbia Journalism Review deserves a notable Dart for ambiguity and nondisclosure in the magazine’s twelve-page supplement from The Commonwealth Fund titled “What Will Happen Under Health Reform — and What’s Next?” (CJR, May/June) A reference to CJR was in smallish type at the…

To listen to the new interview with Norman Solomon on FAIR's national radio program CounterSpin – about the current media blitz from Gen. David Petraeus – click here.

By Norman Solomon It’s already history. In mid-August 2010, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan launched a huge media campaign to prevent any substantial withdrawal of military forces the next summer. The morning after Gen. David Petraeus appeared in a Sunday interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” to promote the war effort, the New York Times…

It scarcely seems to matter whether the Gibbs statements this week were a calculated new version of triangulation or an uncalculated declaration of attitude. Either way, the Obama White House is proving itself to be tone deaf — and self-destructive — in its approach to major sectors of the Democratic Party base that are to…

Six scary words: Governor Whitman. Senator Fiorina. Speaker Boehner.  Defeating the GOP is essential. And insufficient. We also need to move public policy in progressive directions. From Sacramento to Washington, the political anatomy of elected officials is crucial: Republicans are heartless. Disaster follows when Democrats are spineless.  During the past decade, boosts of the federal…