Media Beat - Norman Solomon

Media Beat was a weekly syndicated column on media and politics written by FAIR associate Norman Solomon that ran in newspapers across the country. Until 1996, the column was co-written by Jeff Cohen, then FAIR's executive director.

Utne Reader called Solomon one of "the fiercest and most articulate media critics around." A Los Angeles Times reviewer wrote: "The bold, muckraking tone of these columns offers a welcome respite from the decerebrated discourse that too often passes for contemporary journalism."

Norman Solomon’s latest book is Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America’s Warfare State (autumn 2007). He is the author of War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2005), which was excerpted in the print edition of the July/August 2005 issue of Extra!; in 2007 the book was adapted into a documentary film. In early 2003 he co-authored, with foreign correspondent Reese Erlich, Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn’t Tell You. Several of Solomon’s books can be ordered from FAIR’s webstore, including Wizards of Media Oz, Through the Media Looking Glass, and Adventures in Medialand—three collections of Media Beat columns by Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon.

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Media Beat: Jim Hightower: Radio Populist To Be Muzzled? (9/20/95) By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon

Media Beat: Routine Somersaults Of Self-censorship (9/13/95) By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon

Media Beat: Additional Resources (7/19/95) By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon

Media Beat: Knee-jerk Coverage Of Bombing Should Not Be Forgotten (4/26/95) By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon

Media Beat: Downpour Of Media Cliches Threatens To Flood Nation (1/11/95) By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon

Media Beat: The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV (1/4/95) By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon

Media Beat: Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 1994 (12/14/94) By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon

Media Beat: A Tale Of Two Broadcasters (12/7/94) By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon

Media Beat: Glimmers Of History Improve Coverage Of Native Americans (11/23/94) By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon

Media Beat: Spotlight Finally Shines On White Hate Radio (11/3/94) By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon

Media Beat: Just Imagine (10/5/94) By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon

Media Beat: Jimmy Carter And Human Rights: Behind The Media Myth (9/21/94) By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon

Media Beat: Another Media Celebrity Charged With Murder (8/3/94) By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon

Media Beat: 30-year Anniversary: Tonkin Gulf Lie Launched Vietnam War (7/27/94) By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon

Media Beat: Tobacco Wars: The First Casualty Is Candor (7/20/94) By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon

Media Beat: News Flash (7/13/94) By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon

Media Beat: On Local TV News, If It Bleeds It (Still) Leads (2/3/93) By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon

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