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: Axis of Fanatics—Netanyahu and Ahmadinejad (1/7/06) By Norman Solomon

Media Beat: Media New Year’s Resolutions for 2006 (1/3/06) By Norman Solomon

Media Beat: Journalists Should Expose Secrets, Not Keep Them (12/30/05) By Norman Solomon

Media Beat: NSA Spied on U.N. Diplomats in Push for Invasion of Iraq (12/27/05) By Norman Solomon

Media Beat: A New Phase of Bright Spinning Lies About Iraq (12/23/05) By Norman Solomon

Media Beat: Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2005 (12/20/05) By Norman Solomon

Media Beat: At the Gates of San Quentin (12/13/05) By Norman Solomon

Media Beat: The Bogus Blurring of Terrorism and Insurgency in Iraq (12/12/05) By Norman Solomon

Media Beat: Rumsfeld’s Handshake Deal With Saddam (12/8/05) By Norman Solomon

Media Beat: Hidden in Plane Sight (12/6/05) By Norman Solomon

Media Beat: Colin Powell (12/1/05) By Norman Solomon

Media Beat: The Woodward Scandal Should Not Blow Over (11/28/05) By Norman Solomon

Media Beat: Thanksgiving and More Taking (11/23/05) By Norman Solomon

Media Beat: Getting Out of Iraq (11/21/05) By Norman Solomon

Media Beat: Axis of Hardliners, From Tehran to Washington (11/5/05) By Norman Solomon

Media Beat: After the Libby Indictment, the Press Is Acquitting Itself (10/31/05) By Norman Solomon

Media Beat: At the White House, the Spin Doctor Is Ill (10/28/05) By Norman Solomon

Media Beat: Iraq Is Not Vietnam. But... (10/24/05) By Norman Solomon

Media Beat: Media at a Huge Crossroads, 25 Years After Reagan’s Triumph (10/21/05) By Norman Solomon

Media Beat: Judith Miller, the Fourth Estate and the Warfare State (10/17/05) By Norman Solomon

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