Norm Solomon's journalistic experience includes many years of free-lance writing for Pacific News Service and other media outlets, and several reporting visits to the Soviet Union during the mid-1980s. From 1997-2010 he wrote the nationally syndicated weekly colulmn "Media Beat." He is the founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a consortium of policy researchers and analysts and was its executive director from 1997 to 2010. He is co-founder of the national group RootsAction.org, which now has more than 400,000 active members. Solomon’s books include "Target Iraq," “Wizards of Media Oz: Behind the Curtain of Mainstream News,” “The Trouble With Dilbert: How Corporate Culture Gets the Last Laugh,” “False Hope: The Politics of Illusion in the Clinton Era,” “The Power of Babble: The Politician's Dictionary of Buzzwords and Doubletalk for Every Occasion,” and “Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience With Atomic Radiation.”

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29 March 2001
WASHINGTON -- During the first days of spring, cold winds blew through the nation's capital. The weather was an apt metaphor for the chilling effects of a...
20 March 2001
Many Americans have seen the digital dream of global communications vividly expressed on TV commercials for Cisco Systems. Eager to promote its theme of "...
08 March 2001
A skeleton is rattling in George Will's closet. But it's difficult to hear above the steady applause from his elite boosters inside the media business....
01 March 2001
Gushy reviews began as soon as George W. Bush stepped away from the podium in the House chamber. On NBC, Tim Russert explained that the performance was...
22 February 2001
Henry Kissinger usually has an easy time defending the indefensible on national television. But he faced some pointed questions during a recent interview...
15 February 2001
The power to depict history is entangled with the power to create it. George Orwell observed long ago: "Who controls the past controls the future; who...

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