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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…

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…

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…

On the Thursday, Dec. 30, NPR News hosted by Tony Cox, Amy Goodman and Norman Solomon discussed (audio online) "the top stories that should have received more attention by the media this year." Other stories on the show included World Stories That Didn’t Make the Headlines in 2004 and Events That Mattered Most to African-Americans…

The conflict in Iraq has become a holy war. In both directions. On the surface, the most prominent headline on the New York Times front page Nov. 10 was simply matter-of-fact: “In Taking Fallujah Mosque, Victory by the Inch.” Yet it’s not mere happenstance that American forces have bombed many of Fallujah’s mosques. For public…