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• September 21, 2017

Posts Tagged ‘ McCarthyism ’

Urgent to Progressives: Stop Fueling the Anti-Russia Frenzy

December 24, 2016

NORMAN SOLOMON - Many big factors affect any presidential race, and the Russian government may have tried to be one of them for the 2016 election—though it’s hardly the slam dunk that agencies like the CIA and U.S. mass media are now claiming. But in any event, this month it has become routine for...

Tags: CIA, DNC, Donald Trump, Electoral College, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), Hillary Clinton, McCarthyism, Norman Solomon, TPP, Vladimir Putin
Posted in Analysis, December 2016 | No Comments »

Media Complicity Is Key to Blacklisting Websites

December 8, 2016

NORMAN SOLOMON - We still don’t have any sort of apology or retraction from the Washington Post for promoting “The List” -- the highly dangerous blacklist that got a huge boost from the newspaper’s fawning coverage on November 24. The project of smearing 200 websites with one broad brush wouldn’t have gotten far without...

Tags: Hillary Clinton, McCarthyism, Norman Solomon, President Harry Truman, Rachel Maddow, The New Yorker
Posted in Analysis, December 2016 | No Comments »

Why We Need Media Critics Who Are Fiercely Independent

April 16, 2014

NORMAN SOLOMON - The most renowned media critics are usually superficial and craven. That’s because -- as one of the greatest in the 20th century, George Seldes, put it -- “the most sacred cow of the press is the press itself.” No institutions are more image-conscious than big media outlets. The people running them...

Tags: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, McCarthyism, Norman Solomon, ombudsperson
Posted in Analysis, April 2014 | No Comments »

FBI Left Damning Document at Site of Peace Group Raid

May 26, 2011

BILL SOREM - A press conference at the offices of the Anti-War Committee office last week revealed an interesting remnant of the FBI raids on peace activists in Minneapolis and Chicago on September 24, 2010. They left a copy of the FBI SWAT team operational plan and the set of questions that was to...

Tags: Anti-War, democratic rights, FBI, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, McCarthyism, raids, red-email, weapons arsenal, witch-hunt
Posted in Big Picture, May 2011 | No Comments »