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Media Issues

     

1 October 2008
Future conditional: The Nation counsels Washington on the financial crisis

10 July 2008
American Federation of Radio and Television Artists approves new contract on terms set by media conglomerates

3 July 2008
Conglomerates present Screen Actors Guild with their "final" offer

31 May 2008
US: AFTRA capitulates to the studios and networks, the pressure is on SAG

21 June 2008
Tim Russert honored: A "state funeral" for services rendered

18 June 2008
Letters on Tim Russert

16 June 2008
Tim Russert and the decay of the American media

14 June 2008
Media Reform conference in Minneapolis: Criticism of the media, but a movement still in the orbit of the Democratic Party
Part two

13 June 2008
Media Reform conference in Minneapolis: Criticism of the media, but a movement still in the orbit of the Democratic Party
Part one

19 May 2008
Deal for Newsday reflects concentration of ownership in US newspaper industry

25 April 2008
How the Pentagon manipulated the media to promote the Iraq war

21 December 2007
New York Times bows to White House pressure over CIA tapes story

11 December 2007
TV celebrity Oprah stumps for Barack Obama

23 September 2007
US: Bush administration fast-tracks relaxation of media ownership constraints

27 September 2007
Former CBS anchor Dan Rather: big corporations, government interfering in news

21 September 2007
Dan Rather sues CBS for making him a "scapegoat" to appease Republican right

18 August 2007
New York Times on Iran: Neo-colonialism with a liberal twist

15 August 2007
New York Times defends military escalation in Iraq

2 August 2007
Rupert Murdoch takes over Wall Street Journal

11 July 2007
A not-so-quiet American: New York Times reporter writes on Central Asia

9 July 2007
The New York Times and the crisis of American imperialism in Iraq

26 June 2007
The New York Times has to correct itself again this time on Iran

13 June 2007
More letters on the Paris Hilton affair

12 June 2007
A reply to letters on "The campaign to keep Paris Hilton in jail: nothing healthy about it"

Letters on the Paris Hilton case

9 June 2007
The campaign to keep Paris Hilton in jail: nothing healthy about it

26 May 2007
The Nation magazine offers an alibi for Democrats' support of Iraq war

13 April 2007
After racial slur against women athletes
US talk show host Don Imus taken off the air

19 March 2007
Another damning admission from the New York Times: whitewashing Iraq war

14 March 2007
24, torture and prime-time US television

24 February 2007
What the New York Times doesn't say about the court ruling on habeas corpus

14 February 2007
The short, sad, sordid life of Anna Nicole Smith

13 February 2007
"That's interesting"
Dixie Chicks sweep Grammy Awards

28 November 2006
What the New York Times has learned from Iraq

24 November 2006
The New York Times and the Gemayel assassination

7 November 2006
Saddam Hussein verdict: US politicians, media applaud the gallows and the noose

3 November 2006
Why is the New York Times covering up the torture of Jose Padilla?

24 October 2006
New York Times "military analysis" foreshadows US bloodbath in Baghdad

21 October 2006
Bill Keller at the University of Michigan
New York Times
editor touts role of establishment press in "war on terror"

16 October 2006
Why is the New York Times silent on massive Iraq death toll?
A question for Bill Keller

13 October 2006
Why is the American press silent on the report of 655,000 Iraqi deaths?

13 September 2006
New York Times on 9/11 observances: propaganda in the guise of reportage

12 September 2006
New York Times laments demise of post-9/11 "national unity"

22 August 2006
A damning admission: New York Times concealed NSA spying until after 2004 election

A new week: US media frenzy over JonBenet murder carries on

19 August 2006
US media disgraces itself once again
Rush to judgment in the JonBenet Ramsey case

16 August 2006
The US media and the London terror scare

31 July 2006
US media alibis for Qana massacre

21 July 2006
American media unquestioningly defends Israeli violence

1 June 2006
CBS journalists wounded, killed in Iraq: Where the responsibility lies

16 May 2006
More letters on Stephen Colbert and the American media

11 May 2006
Following his attack on satirist Stephen Colbert
Columnist Richard Cohen denounces his critics

10 May 2006
Letters on Steven Colbert, the Bush administration, and the US media

5 May 2006
Bush, US media respond to Stephen Colbert's comic assault: "We are not amused"

22 April 2006
A mea culpa on Iraq by pro-war journalist Johann Hari

1 April 2006
US media reacts to French protests with hatred and fear

24 March 2006
New York Times columnist Frank Rich at the University of Michigan: thin gruel

21 March 2006
Religion and science: a reply to a right-wing attack on philosopher Daniel Dennett

3 March 2006
Capitulation to Zionist censors
Play on Rachel Corrie canceled by NewYork theater group

22 February 2006
New television show explodes myths
In Justice dramatizes reality of US criminal justice system

21 February 2006
US media drops Abu Ghraib torture issue

21 January 2006
US government demands Google hand over Internet search data

4 January 2006
The Wall Street Journal responds with venom to Spielberg's Munich

28 December 2005
Liberal philistinism revisited: Richard Cohen on Syriana

23 December 2005
Behind the media onslaught on the transit workers

22 December 2005
Time names super-rich trio as 2005 "Persons of the Year"

1 December 2005
The Wall Street Journal and the case of Jose Padilla

Probe exposes criminal methods in Republican right takeover of US Public TV

23 November 2005
Los Angeles Times fires liberal columnist Robert Scheer

14 November 2005
Wall Street Journal defends torture

11 November 2005
Burying the lies on Iraq war
Judith Miller and the New York Times make a deal

8 November 2005
Former US public broadcasting chairman resigns in disgrace

27 October 2005
Thomas Friedman and Iraq: A bad case of amnesia

25 October 2005
Friedman on Iraq--the "thinking" behind the New York Times's debacle

18 October 2005
Judith Miller and the New York Times-accomplices in a war based on lies

6 October 2005
New York Times reporter Judith Miller testifies on exposure of CIA agent

17 September 2005
The New York Times and Bush's New Orleans speech

18 August 2005
The media and Cindy Sheehan

16 August 2005
Where Frank Rich goes wrong: the war in Iraq and the stakes for American imperialism

11 August 2005
Why is the media burying new revelations about 9/11?

The death of Peter Jennings and the state of the American media

23 July 2005
NewYork Times' Thomas Friedman libels opponents of Iraq war

15 July 2005
US Supreme Court rules in favor of entertainment giants and big cable Internet providers

11 July 2005
Why the WSWS opposes the jailing of Judith Miller--a reply to readers

7 July 2005
Jailing of Times reporter: an attack on press freedom and democratic rights

28 June 2005
Letters on the media and the war

22 June 2005
The Washington Post and the Downing Street memo

7 June 2005
The US media and the French referendum

28 May 2005
US press takes umbrage at Amnesty's "gulag" charge

27 May 2005
The nature of Stalin's purges: A letter to the Wall Street Journal

19 May 2005
Further bullying of US media
White House demands Newsweek "repair the damage"

17 May 2005
Media bows to US torture regime Newsweek retracts Guantánamo abuse story

9 April 2005
New York Times joins witch-hunt of Columbia University professors

6 April 2005
The US media and the pope--an assault on the separation of church and state

5 April 2005
Fox's 24: propaganda thinly disguised as television programming

17 March 2005
Bush administration defends use of covert propaganda in US

18 February 2005
CNN news chief steps down: right-wing purge continues in US media

4 February 2005
PBS officials cave in to Bush administration over children's program

13 January 2005
Journalist took $240,000 to push Bush education program

12 January 2005
CBS purges producer, executives for anti-Bush broadcast

6 December 2004
Exit NBC anchor Tom Brokaw: a nonentity in the service of wealth and power

29 November 2004
The inglorious exit of CBS anchorman Dan Rather

30 September 2004
CBS cancels broadcast on Bush's use of forged Iraqi WMD documents

24 September 2004
CBS admits being duped over Bush National Guard memos

15 September 2004
US media covers up American war crimes in Iraq

7 August 2004
New York Times offers Bush friendly advice on terror alerts

3 August 2004
Murder allegations against Iraq's Allawi: an exchange of letters with the New York Times' public editor

3 May 2004
US media alibis for torture in Iraq

7 April 2004
Pulitzer Prize awarded to report on US atrocities in Vietnam

18 February 2004
Bush on "Meet the Press": a letter on the US media

31 January 2004
New York Times calls for exclusion of Kucinich and Sharpton from debates

16 January 2004
Washington Post defends Bush, Iraq war against Paul O'Neill's exposures

15 January 2004
The New York Times whitewashes Bush's lies about Iraq

3 January 2004
New York Times' Safire predicts "major terror attack in the US" on eve of 2004 election

20 December 2003
Wall Street Journal's Robert Bartley dead at 66

3 December 2003
Friedman of the New York Times attacks London anti-Bush protest

19 November 2003
The New York Times "sours" on Bush's new plan for Iraq

13 November 2003
Washington Post shrugs its shoulders over torture victim case

7 November 2003
New York Times on the Reagan series controversy: in praise of cowardice

4 November 2003
The New York Times' Friedman libels the Iraqi resistance

1 November 2003
Duranty's Pulitzer and the hypocrisy of the New York Times

17 October 2003
The New York Times's "liberal" argument for colonial occupation

3 October 2003
The CIA leak case through the lens of the Wall Street Journal

30 September 2003
The New York Times whitewashes Bush's lies on Iraq war

23 September 2003
Letters on "Friedman of the Times declares war on France"

20 September 2003
Friedman of the Times declares war on France

11 September 2003
Iraq: Eyewitness says US helicopter attack killed ITN reporter Terry Lloyd

9 September 2003
Al Jazeera correspondent arrested in Spain

27 August 2003
US menaces Al Jazeera over Iraq reportage

22 July 2003
The Times' Thomas Friedman on Iraq: spreading "democracy" with missiles and lies

10 July 2003
The Wall Street Journal and the occupation of Iraq

9 July 2003
US cable network fires right-winger after anti-gay tirade

5 July 2003
The Times' William Safire: an old Nixon hand covers for Bush's WMD lies

6 June 2003
Friedman: We did it "because we could"
New York Times
covers up for lies on Iraq war

28 May 2003
Pretext for war exposed
CIA-backed exile was source for Times "scoops" on Iraqi arms program

24 May 2003
An exchange with a US war correspondent

23 May 2003
BBC documentary exposes Pentagon lies: The staged rescue of Private Jessica Lynch

Hecklers shout down journalist's anti-war speech at college commencement

More letters on the New York Times and the firing of Jayson Blair

21 May 2003
Move to revise communications regulations
FCC green light for US media monopolization

17 May 2003
No Iraqi weapons of mass destruction?--US media scoundrel shrugs his shoulders

14 May 2003
On the New York Times and the firing of Jayson Blair

13 May 2003
Jayson Blair and Judith Miller
Journalistic ethics, hypocrisy and war at the New York Times

12 May 2003
The firing of Jayson Blair
Panic and hysteria reign at the New York Times

2 May 2003
Media bosses admit pro-war bias in coverage of Iraq

San Francisco newspaper fires antiwar reporter

29 April 2003
ABC News Primetime interview: Country music group holds its own against right-wing attack

23 April 2003
Manufacturing the news: New York Times report on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction

16 April 2003
US prosecuted Nazi propagandists as war criminals
The Nuremberg tribunal and the role of the media

15 April 2003
American's "free press" in action
US networks agree to serve as Pentagon propaganda tool in Iraq

12 April 2003
The battlefield deaths of American journalists Michael Kelly and David Bloom: some hard truths

1 April 2003
The firing of Peter Arnett: right-wing straitjacket tightens on the US media

29 March 2003
BBC complains of Pentagon lies

26 March 2003
White House dictates war coverage to a pliant media
Office of Global Communications oversees press censorship

Antiwar web site shut down

25 March 2003
The US media: propagandists for a criminal war

Media lies and war crimes: the instructive case of Julius Streicher

13 March 2003
Wall Street Journal editorial reveals imperialist arrogance and racism behind US war drive

12 March 2003
In response to exposé on Pentagon war hawk's conflict of interest
Richard Perle brands journalist Seymour Hersh a "terrorist"

7 March 2003
The Wall Street Journal spells it out: Turkey could lose "oil spoils" of war

Bush at War: a flattering portrait of a government of the political underworld

4 March 2003
Washington Post justifies jingoism on Iraq

15 February 2003
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch explains why he backs war vs. Iraq

8 February 2003
After Powell's UN speech
Media pundits in lockstep behind US war drive

5 February 2003
“Left” apologists for US imperialism red-bait the anti-war movement

28 January 2003
New York Times offers "friendly advice" to abort the anti-war movement

24 January 2003
Washington Post columnist Michael Kelly red-baits the Workers World Party

21 January 2003
New York Times discovers the opposition to war in Iraq

15 January 2003
New York Times' Thomas Friedman: "No problem with a war for oil"

3 December 2002
Inventing a pretext for war against Iraq
Friedman of the Times executes an assignment for the Pentagon

25 November 2002
Once again on the US "free press"
Fox News chief doubled as political adviser to Bush

14 November 2002
The US "free" press and the Pentagon war machine

9 November 2002
The Washington Post and the killings in Yemen: "Liberal" press extols CIA's Murder Inc.

2 November 2002
New York Post redbaits transit union

7 October 2002
Journalist Christopher Hitchens fully embraces the Bush war camp

5 October 2002
New York Times urges "debate" to prepare war

28 September 2002
US media begins preparing the public for mass slaughter in Iraq

25 September 2002
US press enlists for war on Iraq

20 September 2002
What really happened to the League of Nations

4 September 2002
Newsweek exposé of war crimes in Afghanistan whitewashes US role

24 July 2002
Once again: the New York Times and the case of John Walker Lindh

15 July 2002
The morality of plutocracy: the Washington Post and the Harken Energy "distraction"

5 July 2002
US media silent on anthrax cover-up charge

21 June 2002
Why is the US media blacking out documentary on war crimes in Afghanistan?

19 June 2002
New York Times whitewashes US torture

11 June 2002
Bahrain bans al-Jazeera news station

22 May 2002
Why is the New York Times defending Bush's September 11 cover-up?

9 May 2002
New York Times op-ed piece: another "nothing to hide" apologia for Israeli war crimes

15 April 2002
The New York Times salutes a "democratic" coup

13 April 2002
A call to "burn out" the Palestinians: more filth from the Wall Street Journal

15 March 2002
"Carlucci" bleeped from HBO version of Lumumba
Ex-CIA official threatened lawsuit

8 March 2002
The New York Times and Bush's "shadow government"
How the media covers up the threat to democratic rights

2 March 2002
ABC News' "Missed Opportunities" evades central questions of government role in September 11 attacks

28 February 2002
US court sanctions further media monopolization

23 February 2002
The killing of Daniel Pearl

16 February 2002
The New York Times on the Milosevic trial: a triumph of cynicism

22 December 2001
The New York Times and the case of John Walker

12 December 2001
Journalist Robert Fisk beaten by Afghan refugees

10 December 2001
Once again on the New York Times and Bush's police-state measures

21 November 2001
America's "killing hour": a revealing comment in the Wall Street Journal

8 November 2001
The New York Times and the "terror alert"
How the US media lies for Bush

6 November 2001
CNN tells reporters: No propaganda, except American

16 October 2001
The media and Mr. Bush

5 October 2001
The political depravity of journalist Christopher Hitchens

25 September 2001
New York Times, Washington Post suppress media recount of Florida vote

8 September 2001
A new attack on freedom of the press
US Justice Department subpoenas reporter's phone records

1 September 2001
The disappearance of Chandra Levy: how the US media turned a family tragedy into a sex scandal

21 August 2001
US television network CBS pulls program to please corporate sponsor

29 June 2001
Salon and the decay of American liberal journalism

28 May 2001
Florida ballot review shows voters preferred Gore
Media slants results to favor Bush

18 May 2001
The case of Robert Kerrey: how the US media covered up Vietnam War atrocity story

21 March 2001
Why did the US media black out the Civil Rights Commission report on the Florida vote?

15 March 2001
US networks, Congress whitewash media role in 2000 election
Second of a two-part series

14 March 2001
US networks, Congress whitewash media role in 2000 election
First of a two-part series

13 January 2001
The US media: a critical component of the conspiracy against democratic rights--Part 7
Conclusions about the media in general, the liberal press in particular

8 January 2001
The US media: a critical component of the conspiracy against democratic rights--Part 6
Who is the Wall Street Journal's Robert Bartley?

27 December 2000
The US media: a critical component of the conspiracy against democratic rights--Part 5
Media ownership and concentration

23 December 2000
Wall Street Journal targets Jesse Jackson: opening salvo in an attack on public dissent

19 December 2000
The American media: a critical component of the conspiracy against democratic rights--Part 4
Television personnel: a few profiles

16 December 2000
Europe's right-wing media gloats, while liberals fear discrediting of US democracy following Supreme Court verdict

The US media: a critical component of the conspiracy against democratic rights
--Part 3
Television personnel: money matters

7 December 2000
The US media: a critical component of the conspiracy against democratic rights
--Part 2
An evening of television news

Britain's press warns that US election crisis threatens global stability

5 December 2000
The US media: a critical component of the conspiracy against democratic rights
--Part 1

27 November 2000
Journalist Christopher Hitchens: from "left" charlatan to mouthpiece for the Republican right

13 November 2000
The New York Times, the Washington Post and the crisis of the 2000 election

11 November 2000
The Wall Street Journal and the US electoral crisis

1 November 2000
The New York Times and the 2000 elections: a contorted attempt to legitimize the two-party monopoly

11 October 2000
Once again, on the New York Times and the Nader campaign

29 September 2000
The New York Times and the case
of Wen Ho Lee

The New York Times continues to flog Whitewater

4 September 2000
New York Times calls for exclusion of Green candidate Ralph Nader from presidential debates

5 May 2000
Time Warner pulls the plug on ABC: Flashpoint in economic war among media giants

18 April 2000
US psychological warfare experts worked at CNN and NPR during Kosovo War

14 January 2000
AOL buyout of Time Warner: merger frenzy sweeping corporate America

8 July 1999
Was CNN involved in a NATO effort to assassinate the Serbian information minister?

22 April 1999
Pentagon pressure behind CNN firing of Peter Arnett

April Oliver speaks: Fired CNN journalist on dismissal of Arnett: "They will do anything to stem the flow of information"

24 July 1998
Fired journalists defend report on nerve gas use in Vietnam War

24 July 1998
The evidence of US nerve gas use in Operation Tailwind

16 July 1998
Why did CNN retract its nerve gas report? A closer look

13 July 1998
Fired CNN journalists speak out:
Kissinger, Powell demanded retraction of nerve gas report

10 July 1998
Fired journalists say CNN caved in to pressure

3 July 1998
CNN withdraws report on US use of nerve gas in Vietnam War

 

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