Solomon, Norman, 1951-

  • The Media – Encouraging New Voices

    GUESTS. Jill Nelson of MSNBC. Clarence Lusane of Black Political Agenda. Norman Solomon – independent media critic, Sam Smith of the Progressive Review, Dashka Slater of the East Bay Express, and Peter Noel of the Village Voice.

  • The Media – Encouraging New Voices

    GUESTS. Jill Nelson of MSNBC. Clarence Lusane of Black Political Agenda. Norman Solomon – independent media critic, Sam Smith of the Progressive Review, Dashka Slater of the East Bay Express, and Peter Noel of the Village Voice.

  • Impeachment Watch

    Impeachment Watch Highlights and analysis of the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment hearings. GUEST: Deborah Tannen, professor of Liguistics at Georgetown University and author of 16 books. GUEST: Michael Rogin, professor of political science at University of California at Berkeley and author of several books. GUEST: David Cole, professor of constitutional law at Georgetown University. GUEST:…

  • Violent reaction to the Rodney King police brutality case verdict : a special Pacifica Report / interviews by Gail Christian.

    News report/documentary following three days of urban rioting and looting in Los Angeles. The program begins with a speech by President Bush, and is followed by an analysis of the speech. Bush ordered Federal troops into Los Angeles. The commentators discuss Bush’s use of certain terms, such as “the mob” and “good people,” which reinforce…

  • Mass media and a passive populace / Norman Solomon ; interviewed by Bob DeBolt.

    Journalist Norman Solomon, co-author of Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media, discusses how corporate controlled mass media wants people to be passive rather than active, and thus become good consumers who will accomodate themselves to the status quo. News, he continues, encourages people to discount their feellings by destroying the language…

  • Mass media and a passive populace / Norman Solomon ; interviewed by Bob DeBolt.

    Journalist Norman Solomon, co-author of Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media, discusses how corporate controlled mass media wants people to be passive rather than active, and thus become good consumers who will accomodate themselves to the status quo. News, he continues, encourages people to discount their feelings by destroying the language…

  • How propaganda led us into the Gulf war / Norman Solomon.

    Political analyst Norman Solomon, co-author of the book” Unreliable Sources,” outlines the influence of propaganda in American culture, with the Gulf War as a prime example. We live in a society which is always talking about war, and that dialogue continually prepares us for the next conflict. Even within our homes we are taught to…

  • National Public Radio : maverick or mainstream? / moderated by Paul Lion.

    Debate between Norman Solomon and Bill Buzenberg about the role and nature of National Public Radio as a true alternative source of informaiton in mass media. Norman Solomon, author of “Unreliable Sources : detecting bias in the media,” argues that NPR is little different from commercial radio. Bill Buzenberg, Vice President of NPR’s division of…

  • East-West relations : the media’s lingering cold war.

    Conference with panel discussions which explore various aspects of mass media, particularly its role in the Gulf War, South Africa, Central American and Caribbean politics, the political turmoil surrounding the end of the Cold War, Arab-Israeli relations, international information control, the use of disinformation, and its use for propaganda in the United States. |r.1. Workshop…

  • Unreliable sources : detecting bias in the U.S. mainstream media / Norman Solomon.

    Talk by Norman Solomon, co-author of Unreliable Sources : A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media. He speaks about the economic foundation for news broadcasting which guarantees a flow of misinformation to the American public. Mass media is grounded in denial, and is designed to eliminate alternative interpretations of events. The limited perspective is…