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Nearly three years ago, the front page of the Marin Independent Journal told about the death of a 25-year-old Marin man in Iraq. The story quoted his grief-stricken girlfriend. "Everybody should know he didn’t die in vain," she said. "He died as a hero." In the wake of such tragic deaths, it may seem that…

Buying the War, the 90 minute special debut of Bill Moyers Journal, examined media coverage of the Iraq War.  Norman Solomon was interviewed in the program.  A transcript and video of the entire program are online. . BILL MOYERS: It had now become unfashionable to dissent from the official line — Unfashionable and risky. BILL…

Last month, I had the pleasure of chatting with media critic Norman Solomon at the Pine Cone Diner near his home in Point Reyes Station. We exchanged pleasantries about how lucky we are to be living in the ecologically buxom North Bay. Then we got down to discussing the matter at hand: exactly how our…

Norman Solomon received the Annual Ruben Salazar Journalism Award for 2007. The award "honors the memory of independent journalist Ruben Salazar, who was killed during a Vietnam War protest in East Los Angeles when he was hit in the head by a police tear gas canister. Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and cohost Juan Gonzalez…

RU Sirius interviewed Norman Solomon for 10 Zen Monkeys. Also, audio of  a panel at the National Conference on Media Reform:   Watchdogging the Media (MP3)   Moderator: Craig Aaron, Free Press David Brock, Media Matters for America Janine Jackson, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting Norman Solomon, Institute for Public Accuracy