Author: Norman Solomon
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On Michael Powell’s resignation
Norman Solomon was on KPFA‘s Morning Show with Jim Naureckas of FAIR and Jeff Perlstein of Media Alliance on January 25th discussing Michael Powell’s decision to resign as chair of the FCC. The segment starts about 32 minutes into the show. You can listen (direct audio link) to the MP3 stream using using iTunes or…
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A Shaky Media Taboo – Withdrawal from Iraq
The latest polls show that most Americans are critical of the war in Iraq. But the option of swiftly withdrawing all U.S. troops from that country gets little media attention. So far this year, many news outlets have lapsed into conjecture on what George W. Bush has in mind for the Iraq war. At the…
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Journalism Q&A
PR Week January 17, 2005 SECTION: MEDIA, Pg. 12 HEADLINE: JOURNALIST Q&A – NORMAN SOLOMON Name: Norman Solomon Publication: Syndicated ‘Media Beat’ column and books Title: Author and media critic Norman Solomon’s syndicated ‘Media Beat’ column has offered a critical view of media and politics since 1992. His upcoming book, War Made Easy, examines the…
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The Martin Luther King You Don’t See On TV
By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon It’s become a TV ritual: Every year in mid-January, around the time of Martin Luther King’s birthday, we get perfunctory network news reports about "the slain civil rights leader." The remarkable thing about this annual review of King’s life is that several years — his last years — are…
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Far from Media Spotlights, the Shadows of “Losers”
A system glorifies its winners. The mass media and the rest of corporate America are enthralled with professionals scaling career ladders to new heights. Meanwhile, the people hanging onto bottom rungs are scarcely blips on screens. Far from the media spotlights are countless lives beset with financial scarcity, often in tandem with chronic illness, monotony,…