Issue Area: Terrorism
On Iran, an Unsmoking Nongun: Nuclear report doesn’t say what media want it to (January 2012) By
In Norway, Footnotes to Mass Murder: Terror Suspect cited Islamophobic blog as inspiration (September 2011) By
Gullible Reporters, Sick Responders: Relaying offical assurances about unsafe air at Ground Zero (September 2011) By
In Norway, Footnotes to Mass Murder: Terror Suspect cited Islamophobic blog as inspiration (September 2011) By
Gullible Reporters, Sick Responders: Relaying offical assurances about unsafe air at Ground Zero (September 2011) By
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More Terror, Less Coverage: Discounting right-wing domestic political violence (May 2011) By
The Uses of September 11: To the right, terror attacks are theirs to exploit—or dismiss—as they like (March 2011) By
When Journalism Becomes ‘Terrorism’: The dangerous sport of calling WikiLeaks names (February 2011) By
‘America Was Safer Under Bush’: Journalists accept GOP’s screwy terrorism scorecard (March 2010) By
Lockerbie in the Propaganda System: Release of Al-Megrahi evokes selective history (October 2009) By
From Water Torture to ‘Waterboarding’: Media rehabilitate torture as aquatic sport (May/June 2008) By
City of Terror: Painting Paraguay's 'casbah' as terror central (September/ October 2007) By and
Newsweek and the Real Rules of Journalism: Mistakes should be retracted—if the powerful are offended (July/August 2005) By
Torturing Language: Definitions, defenses and dirty work (July/August 2005) By
Homegrown Terrorists: WMD found—in Texas, so media yawn (March/April 2004) By
Saddam and Osama's Shotgun Wedding: Weekly Standard beats a long-dead horse (January/February 2004) By
When Journalism Becomes 'Terrorism': Perle goes on offensive against investigative reporting (May/June 2003) By
The Victories That Weren't: In the "war on terror," media slight facts for spin (May/June 2003) By
The Thrill of a Good Conspiracy: Iraq and the Oklahoma bombing case (July/August 2002) By
Afghan Famine On and Off the Screen: Aid workers mostly quoted when U.S. likes their message (May/June 2002) By
The 'Oh Really?' Factor: Bill O'Reilly spins facts and statistics (May/June 2002) By
Take No Prisoners: U.S. reporters failed to probe Pentagon's 'unlawful combatants' label (March/April 2002) By
Pro-Pain Pundits: Torture advocates defy U.S., international law (January/February 2002) By
WWF vs. CNN: In wake of terror attacks, pro wrestlers’ views were broader than mainstream pundits’ (12/1/01) By
"This Isn't Discrimination, This Is Necessary": Amid pleas for tolerance, some call for profiling--and worse (November/December 2001)
As If Reality Wasn't Bad Enough: Dan Rather spread alarmist rumors on September 11 (November/December 2001) By
Why They Hate Us: Looking for a flattering answer (Update October 2001) By
Terrorism Stories: Three Cases, Two Standards (Update February 2000)
Steven Emerson's Crusade: Why is a journalist pushing questionable stories from behind the scenes? (January/February 1999) By
"Terrorists" Attack Ski Lodges, Not Doctors (Update December 1998)
Terrorists Hate Democracy, Law, Apple Pie (Update October 1998)
Remember All the Victims of Violence (Update October 1997)
Terrorism 'Experts' Strike Again (Update October 1996)
Journalists as Gamblers (Update October 1996)
Islam: Fundamental Misunderstandings About a Growing Faith (July/August 1995) By
Talk Radio on Oklahoma City:: Don't Look at Us (July/August 1995) By
The 'Experts' Speak: Some of the most cited anti-terrorism sources--and their “credentials” (July/August 1995)
The Oklahoma City Bombing: The Jihad That Wasn't (July/August 1995) By
Is Murder Moral?: Executive Director's Column (September/October 1994) By
How America's Leading Paper Covered a Massacre (May/June 1994) By
SoundBites (April/May 1993)
Hypocrisy on Terrorism: The Case of Luis Posada (1/9/89) By
Are You on the Nightline Guestlist? (January/February 1989) By and
More Terror, Less Coverage: Discounting right-wing domestic political violence (May 2011) By
The Uses of September 11: To the right, terror attacks are theirs to exploit—or dismiss—as they like (March 2011) By
When Journalism Becomes ‘Terrorism’: The dangerous sport of calling WikiLeaks names (February 2011) By
‘America Was Safer Under Bush’: Journalists accept GOP’s screwy terrorism scorecard (March 2010) By
Lockerbie in the Propaganda System: Release of Al-Megrahi evokes selective history (October 2009) By
From Water Torture to ‘Waterboarding’: Media rehabilitate torture as aquatic sport (May/June 2008) By
City of Terror: Painting Paraguay's 'casbah' as terror central (September/ October 2007) By and
Newsweek and the Real Rules of Journalism: Mistakes should be retracted—if the powerful are offended (July/August 2005) By
Torturing Language: Definitions, defenses and dirty work (July/August 2005) By
Homegrown Terrorists: WMD found—in Texas, so media yawn (March/April 2004) By
Saddam and Osama's Shotgun Wedding: Weekly Standard beats a long-dead horse (January/February 2004) By
When Journalism Becomes 'Terrorism': Perle goes on offensive against investigative reporting (May/June 2003) By
The Victories That Weren't: In the "war on terror," media slight facts for spin (May/June 2003) By
The Thrill of a Good Conspiracy: Iraq and the Oklahoma bombing case (July/August 2002) By
Afghan Famine On and Off the Screen: Aid workers mostly quoted when U.S. likes their message (May/June 2002) By
The 'Oh Really?' Factor: Bill O'Reilly spins facts and statistics (May/June 2002) By
Take No Prisoners: U.S. reporters failed to probe Pentagon's 'unlawful combatants' label (March/April 2002) By
Pro-Pain Pundits: Torture advocates defy U.S., international law (January/February 2002) By
WWF vs. CNN: In wake of terror attacks, pro wrestlers’ views were broader than mainstream pundits’ (12/1/01) By
"This Isn't Discrimination, This Is Necessary": Amid pleas for tolerance, some call for profiling--and worse (November/December 2001)
As If Reality Wasn't Bad Enough: Dan Rather spread alarmist rumors on September 11 (November/December 2001) By
Why They Hate Us: Looking for a flattering answer (Update October 2001) By
Terrorism Stories: Three Cases, Two Standards (Update February 2000)
Steven Emerson's Crusade: Why is a journalist pushing questionable stories from behind the scenes? (January/February 1999) By
"Terrorists" Attack Ski Lodges, Not Doctors (Update December 1998)
Terrorists Hate Democracy, Law, Apple Pie (Update October 1998)
Remember All the Victims of Violence (Update October 1997)
Terrorism 'Experts' Strike Again (Update October 1996)
Journalists as Gamblers (Update October 1996)
Islam: Fundamental Misunderstandings About a Growing Faith (July/August 1995) By
Talk Radio on Oklahoma City:: Don't Look at Us (July/August 1995) By
The 'Experts' Speak: Some of the most cited anti-terrorism sources--and their “credentials” (July/August 1995)
The Oklahoma City Bombing: The Jihad That Wasn't (July/August 1995) By
Is Murder Moral?: Executive Director's Column (September/October 1994) By
How America's Leading Paper Covered a Massacre (May/June 1994) By
SoundBites (April/May 1993)
Hypocrisy on Terrorism: The Case of Luis Posada (1/9/89) By
Are You on the Nightline Guestlist? (January/February 1989) By and
Arun Gupta on Occupy Wall Street, Jasmin Ramsey on Iran plot (10/14/11)
Katie Galloway on 'Better This World,' Yousef Munayyer on Palmer Report (9/9/11)
Devin Burghart on Norway terror, Julianne Escobedo Shepherd on Strauss-Kahn case (7/29/11)
Katie Galloway on 'Better This World,' Yousef Munayyer on Palmer Report (9/9/11)
Devin Burghart on Norway terror, Julianne Escobedo Shepherd on Strauss-Kahn case (7/29/11)
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Spencer Ackerman on CIA torture documents, Ed Herman on Lockerbie (8/28/09)
T.R. Reid on Sick Around America, Mark Danner on torture (4/10/09)
Kai Wright on the Proposition 8 vote, Andy Worthington on Guantánamo (11/21/08)
Nomi Prins on mortgage meltdown, Kamau Karl Franklin on HR 1955 (12/28/07)
Ervand Abrahamian on Iran, Andrew Tilghman on Al Qaeda in Iraq (9/28/07)
David Bryden on Bush & AIDS funding, Lew Koch on Padilla trial (6/15/07)
Michael Klare on Iran, Fawaz Gerges on Journey of the Jihadist (6/9/06)
Jack Fairweather on "Heroes in Error," Ben Bagdikian on Knight-Ridder sale (3/17/06)
Dahlia Lithwick on Guantanamo, Sheila Gibbons on Global Media Monitoring Project (2/24/06)
Emily Whitfield on Abu Ghraib, Kenneth DeGraff on a la carte cable (2/17/06)
Naomi Klein on torture, Eric Boehlert on Sami al-Arian (12/16/05)
Laura Rozen on Niger-Uranium, Jeff Chang on Village Voice-New Times merger (10/28/05)
John Burroughs on NPT review, Norman Solomon on Deep Throat and Iraq (6/3/05)
Robert Jensen on Newsweek's Quran Story, Karl Grossman on Weapons in Space (5/20/05)
Michael Froomkin on torture memos, Robert Jensen on 9/11 Commission (6/25/04)
Spencer Ackerman on CIA torture documents, Ed Herman on Lockerbie (8/28/09)
T.R. Reid on Sick Around America, Mark Danner on torture (4/10/09)
Kai Wright on the Proposition 8 vote, Andy Worthington on Guantánamo (11/21/08)
Nomi Prins on mortgage meltdown, Kamau Karl Franklin on HR 1955 (12/28/07)
Ervand Abrahamian on Iran, Andrew Tilghman on Al Qaeda in Iraq (9/28/07)
David Bryden on Bush & AIDS funding, Lew Koch on Padilla trial (6/15/07)
Michael Klare on Iran, Fawaz Gerges on Journey of the Jihadist (6/9/06)
Jack Fairweather on "Heroes in Error," Ben Bagdikian on Knight-Ridder sale (3/17/06)
Dahlia Lithwick on Guantanamo, Sheila Gibbons on Global Media Monitoring Project (2/24/06)
Emily Whitfield on Abu Ghraib, Kenneth DeGraff on a la carte cable (2/17/06)
Naomi Klein on torture, Eric Boehlert on Sami al-Arian (12/16/05)
Laura Rozen on Niger-Uranium, Jeff Chang on Village Voice-New Times merger (10/28/05)
John Burroughs on NPT review, Norman Solomon on Deep Throat and Iraq (6/3/05)
Robert Jensen on Newsweek's Quran Story, Karl Grossman on Weapons in Space (5/20/05)
Michael Froomkin on torture memos, Robert Jensen on 9/11 Commission (6/25/04)
MSNBC's 'Truth Squad': Democrats labeled 'untruthful' for criticizing Bush (8/10/07)
Treated Like a Democrat: GOP candidate Ron Paul's 'unorthodox' 9/11 theory (5/31/07)
Bill O'Reilly Needs Help: Fox host demands Letterman apologize for pointing out Fox host's inaccuracy (11/3/06)
Treated Like a Democrat: GOP candidate Ron Paul's 'unorthodox' 9/11 theory (5/31/07)
Bill O'Reilly Needs Help: Fox host demands Letterman apologize for pointing out Fox host's inaccuracy (11/3/06)
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NBC Distorts Its Polling on Warrantless Wiretaps: Russert, Reid paint public as backing Bush (2/10/06)
The Consequences of Covering Up: Washington Post withholds info on secret prisons at government request (11/4/05)
Parade Magazine's Chavez Smear: Venezuelan president a terrorist funder? (10/12/05)
O'Reilly's Political Smears: Fox host says Donahue and Michael Moore think Bush "orchestrated" 9/11 (10/5/05)
NPR's Dvorkin Responds on "Extremist" Label (9/30/05)
NPR's "Extremists": Do only "extremist groups" connect war and terror? (9/21/05)
A New Blacklist for "Excuse Makers": Those who think Iraq War sparks terror are "despicable," says Friedman (7/27/05)
Lessons from London: Bombings show right was right all along, pundits say (7/11/05)
Lessons from Newsweek's Retraction (6/1/05)
Reviving Cold War Reporting on Nicaragua (4/5/05)
Murdoch Exploits 9/11 for Kerry Smear (11/1/04)
Journalists Find "Calm" When Only Palestinians Die (8/22/03)
9/11 Anniversary Coverage Plans Fall Short (8/26/02)
"Terrorism" Is a Term That Requires Consistency: Newspaper and its critics both show a double standard on (4/8/02)
NYT Should Tell Full Story in Terror Blast (12/6/01)
Networks Accept Government 'Guidance' (10/12/01)
Nightly News Glosses Over Anti-Terrorism Act (9/27/01)
Extra!'s Report on Steven Emerson:: Setting the Record Straight (2/2/99)
NBC Distorts Its Polling on Warrantless Wiretaps: Russert, Reid paint public as backing Bush (2/10/06)
The Consequences of Covering Up: Washington Post withholds info on secret prisons at government request (11/4/05)
Parade Magazine's Chavez Smear: Venezuelan president a terrorist funder? (10/12/05)
O'Reilly's Political Smears: Fox host says Donahue and Michael Moore think Bush "orchestrated" 9/11 (10/5/05)
NPR's Dvorkin Responds on "Extremist" Label (9/30/05)
NPR's "Extremists": Do only "extremist groups" connect war and terror? (9/21/05)
A New Blacklist for "Excuse Makers": Those who think Iraq War sparks terror are "despicable," says Friedman (7/27/05)
Lessons from London: Bombings show right was right all along, pundits say (7/11/05)
Lessons from Newsweek's Retraction (6/1/05)
Reviving Cold War Reporting on Nicaragua (4/5/05)
Murdoch Exploits 9/11 for Kerry Smear (11/1/04)
Journalists Find "Calm" When Only Palestinians Die (8/22/03)
9/11 Anniversary Coverage Plans Fall Short (8/26/02)
"Terrorism" Is a Term That Requires Consistency: Newspaper and its critics both show a double standard on (4/8/02)
NYT Should Tell Full Story in Terror Blast (12/6/01)
Networks Accept Government 'Guidance' (10/12/01)
Nightly News Glosses Over Anti-Terrorism Act (9/27/01)
Extra!'s Report on Steven Emerson:: Setting the Record Straight (2/2/99)
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