Author: Norman Solomon
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A Quarterly Report from Bush-Cheney Media Enterprises
The first quarter of 2005 brought significant media dividends for the Bush-Cheney limited liability corporation. Stakeholders received windfalls as mainstream news outlets deferred to consolidation of power from the November election. A rollout of new “democracy” branding — kicked off by the State of the Union product relaunch — yielded at least temporary gains in…
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Counterspin: Norman Solomon on Iraq and withdrawal
This week on CounterSpin: the two-year anniversary of the Iraq war came and went with relatively little media fanfare. What’s the state of the Iraq debate? And what ideas are unmentionable in mainstream media circles? We’ll ask FAIR associate and syndicated columnist Norman Solomon. Listen on your local radio station or online in RealAudio or…
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This War Walks Among Us
Most of the injured in Iraq are surviving, and their homecoming could undercut Bush In wartime, the silence of the American dead is a vacuum that the powerful in Washington try to fill. While loved ones are left with haunting memories and excruciating sadness, the most amplified political voices use predictable rhetoric to talk about…
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MoveOn.org: Making Peace With the War in Iraq
Sadly, it has come to this. Two years after the invasion of Iraq, the online powerhouse MoveOn.org — which built most of its member base with a strong antiwar message — is not pushing for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. With a network of more than 3 million "online activists," the MoveOn leadership has…
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When Junk Interrupts Junk
Once in a while, mass media outlets give a fair hearing to radical ideas that make sense. But those ideas have little chance to take hold — mainly because followup is scant. Instead of bouncing around the national media echo chamber, the offending concept falls like a tossed rock. That’s what happened a few weeks…