Media Beat column
Past columns on FAIR's site.
Coldtype also has Media Beat columns from 2003, 2004, and 2005 as PDFs, and a PDF of columns from August to December 2002 collected as The Media Marches to War.
Earlier Columns
2005
Withdrawal Would Cripple U.S. Credibility 7-1-05
(excerpt from War Made Easy)
Mourn on the Fourth of July 7-1-05
Memo to Iraq War: This Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Death 6-30-05
Iran in Washington's cross hairs 6-29-05
The Voluntary Amnesia in the Service of War 6-23-05
Picture-perfect killers 6-19-05
(excerpt from War Made Easy - Jacques Leslie is mentioned)
The Killing Street Memo 6-17-05
Gains for Democracy Could Jolt Iran's Theocrats and America's Neocons 6-15-05
Letter From Tehran: In Washington's Cross-Hairs 6-13-05
From Watergate to Downing Street -- Lying for War 6-6-05
War Made Easy: From Vietnam to Iraq 6-2-05
(excerpt from War Made Easy)
The Silent Media Curse of Memorial Day 5-26-05
And Now, It's Time for ... "Media Jeopardy!" 5-24-05
News Media and "the Madness of Militarism" speech at the National Conference for Media Reform
Political Bluster and the Filibuster 5-5-05
Nuclear Fundamentalism and the Iran Story 5-5-05
Iraq: War, Aid and Public Relations 4-28-05
Intervention Spin Cycle Baltimore Sun op-ed, 4-26-05
The New Pope and Journalism's Crisis of Fait 4-21-05
When Media Dogs Don’t Bark 4-18-05
Beyond the Narrow Limits of News Coverage 4-7-05
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A Quarterly Report from Bush-Cheney Media Enterprises 3-31-05
Related link: op-ed by John Danforth
Little Reporting on Paranoia in High Places 3-24-05
Related link: The National Defense Strategy of the United States of America
Why Iraq Withdrawal Makes Sense 3-17-05
Related links: David Enders, author of Baghdad Bulletin: Dispatches on the American Occupatio, and Woolsey withdrawal resolution
This War Walks Among Us: Most of the injured in Iraq are surviving, and their homecoming could undercut Bush, Newsday 3-13-05
Related link: Iraq Veterans Against the War
MoveOn.org: Making Peace With the War in Iraq 3-10-05
When Junk Interrupts Junk 3-4-05
Related link: One Idea by Norman Mailer
Ex-Presidents as Pitchmen 2-24-05
Great Media Critics: Intrepid for Journalism and Labor Rights 2-18-05
Related links: George Seldes, Lords of the Press, and Ben Bagdikian
What They Really Mean... 2-11-05
Iraq Media Coverage: Too Much Stenography, Not Enough Curiosity 2-3-05
Of Death Be Not Proud 1-28-05
A Shaky Media Taboo -- Withdrawal from Iraq 1-20-05
Far from Media Spotlights, the Shadows of "Losers" 1-13-05
Acts of God, Acts of Media 1-7-05
2004
Tailgated by Media Technology 12-28-04
The P.U.-litzer Prizes For 2004 12-10-04
The Limits of "Man Bites Dog" Stories 12-9-04
Media in the Winter of Our "Disremorse" 12-3-04
News Media in the 60th Year of the Nuclear Age 11-29-04
A Voluntary Tic in Media Coverage of Iraq 11-18-04
A Distant Mirror of Holy War 11-11-04
Transforming Four More Years 11-8-04
Elections and the Specter of Things Unseen 11-5-04
Nader’s Game of "Chicken" 10-30-04
Democracy Requires Real Journalism 10-30-04
The Presidential Pageant:
“There He Is, Mr. America...” 10-22-04
Two Weeks to Go -- and One President to Oust 10-19-04
Preview of the Bush Campaign's Media Endgame 10-14-04
Beyond the Debates, a Referendum on an Emperor 10-7-04
Media Swinging With the Pollsters 10-5-04
Power of Babble Still Fuels Presidential Race 9-04
Missing: A Media Focus on the Supreme Court 9-17-04
The Brave Posturing of Armchair Warriors 9-10-04
Rove's Brain and Media Manipulation 9-1-04 (Bush's Brain website)
Beyond Hero-Worship 8-27-04
How the News Media Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Rumsfeld 8-20-04
A Time of Butterflies and Bombers 8-13-04
From Attica to Abu Ghraib -- and a Prison Near You 8-6-04
Hope Is Not On the Way, But Hopefully Bush Is On the Way Out 7-30-04
The Conventional News Wisdom of Network Television
Macho Politics and Major Consequences (7-22-04)
Terrorism and the Election: Trial Balloons and Spin (7-16-04)
Media Class War: Firing Shots Across the Edwards Bow (7-8-04)
The Limits of Media Dream Machines (7-2-04)
Why I Changed My Voter Registration Today (6-28-04) also see Nader Adrift
The News Media’s Political "F" Word (6-24-04)
Presidential Campaigns and Media Charades (6-17-04)
Media: Mourning in America (6-10-04)
Nader and the Green Party’s Presidential Choice for 2004 (6-3-04)
Major "Liberal" Outlets Clog Media Diets (5-27-04)
The Coming Backlash Against Outrage (5-13-04)
This War and Racism -- Media Denial in Overdrive (5-6-04)
Staying the Media Course in Iraq (4-29-04)
Country Joe Band, 2004 (4-22-04)
How the Newshour changed history (4-15-04)
