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A Critique of Nightline, MacNeil/Lehrer and NPR
Jeff Cohen
Jeff Cohen is the Executive Director of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), a media watch group based in New York. FAIR has published stinging reports on Nightline and MacNeil/Lehrer. FAIR charges that these two highly-touted TV news programs overwhelmingly rely on white male present and former government officials. Dissident and minority voices are consistently […]
Where Have All the Jokes in Eastern Europe Gone?
Andrei Codrescu
Recorded at the University of Colorado.
CIA, Drugs & the Media
Alexander Cockburn
CIA drug connections have been suspected since its creation in 1947. Yet from Southeast Asia to Europe and from Afghanistan to Central America, Agency links to the drug trade have not been pursued by the media. A new book written by Jeffrey St. Clair with syndicated columnist Alexander Cockburn, Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the […]
Left Alive!
Alexander Cockburn
Interview by David Barsamian. Recorded at KGNU on May 7, 1995, followed by a 30-minute talk.
The Media and the Environment
Alexander Cockburn
The public’s perception and understanding of environmental issues, be they oil tanker spills, rain forests or spotted owls, are largely shaped and formed by the media. How and why are certain stories selected? What are their emphases and spins? The media are becoming increasingly concentrated and controlled by corporate conglomerates whose interests in the environment […]
The Gulf War and the Media
Alexander Cockburn
New World Disorder
Alexander Cockburn
Will President Bush’s much-heralded New World Order usher in an era of peace and prosperity? Journalist and media critic Alexander Cockburn doesn’t think so. He outlines the parameters and contours of what he calls the New World Disorder, in which the U.S. asserts its military power globally and simultaneously ignores its crumbling domestic infrastructure. Bush’s […]
Rain Forest Politics
Alexander Cockburn
The Amazon Rain Forest, a wonder of the world, is under attack. The lungs of the Earth are being destroyed by greedy capitalists. Cockburn connects racist attitudes toward the indigenous in Brazil to the white ruling class. He says, when you look at the Amazon, “the word you really have to use is justice. Justice […]
The Fate of the Amazon Rain Forest
Alexander Cockburn
Editing Reality
Alexander Cockburn
Alexander Cockburn presents a lucid and witty lecture on how the mainstream media edit reality. Using many examples, he demonstrates how news is designed, regulated and managed to exclude stories and information that are not ideologically serviceable. The unspoken elite consensus, Cockburn contends, largely determines how issues are framed and topics chosen. His thesis will […]
The Media Manufacturing Consent
Alexander Cockburn
Recorded at Baseline Junior High School.
The Mainstream Media: Watchdog or Lapdog?
Alexander Cockburn
Recorded at the Masonic Temple.

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