AltWeeklies Wire
What Makes the Media Tic?
When media outlets provide a daily focus
on repetitive events and chronic situations, the results are often
journalistic grooves that turn into ruts.
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Norman Solomon |
05-19-2006 |
Commentary
The New Face of the Labor Movement
Marchers of all races and nationalities protested the bills in Congress that would criminalize 12 million undocumented people and drive from their jobs those without papers.
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David Bacon, Terelle Jerricks and Paul Rosenberg |
05-10-2006 |
Immigration
This Land Is My Land
Fact is, we are all immigrants on this bus!
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James Preston Allen |
05-10-2006 |
Commentary
GOP Failures, Democratic Fears
A grassroots groundswell is starting to challenge Beltway Democrats' run-and-hide response to spectacular GOP failures.
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Paul Rosenberg |
03-31-2006 |
Politics
Teach the Children Well
There has been a lot of public hand wringing lately over public school students choosing to walkout of classes in protest of the anti-immigration bill working its way through Congress.
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James Preston Allen |
03-31-2006 |
Commentary
Surrogate Attacks
When all else fails, the Bush administration blames the media -- through its surrogates.
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Norman Solomon |
03-23-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
GOP vs. Feingold
Sens. Snowe and Hagel join the Bush cover-up, while Senator Feingold calls for censure, and some seek legal rulings that Bush's secret spying was illegal and unconstitutional.
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Paul Rosenberg |
03-16-2006 |
Civil Liberties
Censure Will Save the Republic
The media is reporting that no Democrats are supporting Russ Feingold's resolution to censure Bush, but this simply isn't true.
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James Preston Allen |
03-16-2006 |
Commentary
Tags: domesticspying
War-Loving Pundits
The third anniversary of the Iraq invasion was bound to attract a lot of media coverage, but scant recognition went to the pundits who helped make it all possible.
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Norman Solomon |
03-16-2006 |
Media
The Unreal Death of Journalism
From local car crashes to catastrophes
in faraway places, deadly events are grist for the media mill, but the coverage is almost always superficial.
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Norman Solomon |
02-23-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
How Far Does Bush Spying Go?
The Senate Judiciary Committee began its investigation into the Bush administration's secret wiretapping program on Feb. 5 by calling Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as its first witness.
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Paul Rosenberg |
02-16-2006 |
Politics
Tags: domesticspying
Cheney’s Dodge
Dick Cheney surfaced on Feb. 15 long enough for an interview
with Fox News eminence Brit Hume, and the spin emerged from a timeworn bag of political tricks.
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Norman Solomon |
02-16-2006 |
Commentary
Oil for Freedom
Following the fall of Saddam Hussein, oil workers in Basra reorganized one of Iraq's oldest unions, and faced the occupation's prohibition on collective bargaining in the public sector.
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David Bacon |
02-02-2006 |
International
Tags: international
Bush and the Unspoken Message
When Bush is left unscripted, words come out so twisted you wonder if he puts his words in an Osterizer before pouring them out of his mouth.
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James Preston Allen |
02-02-2006 |
Commentary
Smothering King's Legacy
Conservatives praise the Kings as if their work stopped at integration, carefully ignoring King's profound challenge to the kind of budget priorities and militarism that hold sway today.
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Norman Solomon |
02-02-2006 |
Commentary
