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Media Monopolies: Corporate Merger Mania
Jeff Cohen
Many of you have played Monopoly. Well, it’s not just a board game. Monopoly is a big part of the business world. New and ever-larger media mergers and takeovers are becoming almost routine. Each new deal seemingly dwarfs the previous one. Fewer and fewer corporations dominate more and more media. But does the public benefit […]
Rush Limbaugh’s Reign of Error
Jeff Cohen
In the cosmology of media, no planet looms as large as Rush Limbaugh. He is often given credit as a major factor in the ascendancy of the right wing. The New York Times calls him “a national precinct captain” of the Republican Party. He’s an electronic ward boss who fervently promotes the right-wing agenda. Limbaugh’s […]
Media Coverage of the Gulf War
Jeff Cohen
Many Americans have a strong sense that they are not getting the real news. Walter Cronkite has publicly complained about media manipulation. Jeff Cohen, Executive Director of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), delivers a stinging critique of mainstream media coverage of the Gulf War. He demonstrates, with many examples, how National Public Radio, Nightline, […]
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

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