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Media Critiques
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Barry Grey , WSWS
15 June 2009
The response of the US media to the Iranian election says more about the state of democracy and the so-called “free press” in America than it does about the state of democratic rights in Iran.
The coverage by the New York Times typifies a presentation of the... » read this article
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Bill Van Auken , WSWS
27 May 2009
The US media’s reaction to last week’s extraordinary back-to-back speeches by President Barack Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney has been one of political complacency and deliberate cover-up in the face of a profound threat to basic democratic rights exposed in the two men’s remarks.
The... » read this article
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Carlos Ruíz , VenCentral
May 20, 2009
In their classic 1988 book Manufacturing Consent, Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demonstrated how corporate media select topics, place emphasis, set boundaries, ask questions and shape content in accordance with broad capitalist imperatives. It’s a largely unconscious process driven by conformist human beings, and infinitely more effective... » read this article
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Kate Randall , WSWS
May 6, 2009
Boston Globe shutdown averted for now
WSWS
Unions signal readiness to accept massive concessions
The New York Times Co., owner of the Boston Globe, announced Monday that it was tentatively withdrawing its threat to shut down the newspaper. While tentative deals have been reached with six of... » read this article
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David Walsh , WSWS
24 January 2009
The inaugural address delivered by Barack Obama Tuesday has elicited a torrent of commentary, in the US and around the world. Some of the most deluded and dishonest comments issue from the pages of the New York Times, the "newspaper of record" and voice of American liberalism.... » read this article
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