Television viewers in the United States seeking international news are starting to switch over to foreign channels to learn what is happening in the outside world, media watchers here say. "They are comparable to CNN," said Steve Randall, about television...
The Case of the Tell-tale Tunnels: Tall Tales from the Times
The drumbeat for war with Iran started quite some time ago, but as we begin the new year the tom-toms are getting more frenetic and certainly louder. It wasn't twenty-four hours after the intrepid Gareth Porter effectively debunked the latest war propaganda in the...
Where’s the Beef, Mr. Murdoch?
Polls Give False Impressions About War
Polling results have tracked so closely with the politicization of the Afghan war that it's difficult to discern the public's actual views in such a polarized environment. The polls tell us less about what the public is really feeling than about how well the two...
War Porn
In an Oct. 26 op-ed piece, David Ignatius of the Washington Post tells us everything we need to know about why mainstream media war coverage is so tainted. The article is 750 words worth of war pornography, verbal sex performed on Gen. David Petraeus, who gives...
William Safire: Wars Made Out of Words
The Afghanistan Gap: Press vs. Public
Mr. Al-Jazeera Goes to Washington
The director of the Arab satellite television network al-Jazeera, Wadah Khanfar, is in Washington this week for the first time, part of a brief tour of the U.S. that will also take him to New York. The visit comes just weeks after a deal between al-Jazeera and U.S....