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  • CounterSpin: Norman Solomon on Obama’s inauguration

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    This week on CounterSpin: The inauguration of President Barack Obama was undoubtedly historic, and was covered as such by the corporate media. But what are we to make of the idea that the media have gone gaga for Obama? And what are the pundits and editorial writers pushing for from Obama in the first place?…

  • Media Matters with Bob McChesney

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    Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon were on Media Matters with Bob McChesney on January 11th. Play now: RealAudio archive Download: mp3 file

  • A Hundred Eyes for an Eye

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    Israelis and Arabs "feel that only force can assure justice," I. F. Stone noted soon after the Six-Day War in 1967. And he wrote, "A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements. The Others are always either less than human, and thus their interests may be ignored, or more than human and therefore so dangerous…

  • Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2008

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    by Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon Now in their seventeenth year, the P.U.-litzer Prizes recognize some of the nation's stinkiest media performances. As the judges for these annual awards, we do our best to identify the most deserving recipients of this unwelcome plaudit. And now, the P.U.-litzers Prizes for 2008: Hot for Obama Prize –…

  • The Silent Winter of Escalation

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    Sunday morning, before dawn, I read in the New York Times that “the Pentagon is planning to add more than 20,000 troops to Afghanistan” within the next 18 months — “raising American force levels to about 58,000″ in that country.” Then I scraped ice off a windshield and drove to the C-SPAN studios, where a…