Jeff Cohen
Jeff Cohen was associate professor of journalism and the director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, founder of the media watch group FAIR, and former board member of Progressive Democrats of America. In 2002, he was a producer and pundit at MSNBC (overseen by NBC News). He is the author of Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media - and a cofounder of the online action group, www.RootsAction.org. His website is here: http://jeffcohen.org
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Views Friday, October 09, 2015 Why Do Conservatives Get to Question Candidates–but Not Progressives? At the CNN -sponsored Republican Party debate last month at the Reagan Library, one of the three panelists CNN selected to question the candidates was conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt , affiliated with the proudly right-wing Salem Radio Network . But at Tuesday’s upcoming Democratic Party debate... Read more |
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Views Saturday, July 04, 2015 Memo to Media: Ask Trump If He’s a ‘Serial Racist’ It’s easy to laugh off Donald Trump’s fact-free comments about Mexican immigrants being rapists. And easy to poke fun, as Jon Stewart did , at Trump’s grudging admission that some Mexican immigrants might be “good people.” But there is a serious issue here, and mainstream media interviewers have... Read more |
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Views Monday, October 06, 2014 The Resurrection of Gary Webb: Will Hollywood Give Journalist Last Word Against CIA’s Media Apologists? It’s been almost a decade since once-luminous investigative journalist Gary Webb extinguished his own life. It’s been 18 years since Webb’s “Dark Alliance” series in the San Jose Mercury News exploded across a new medium – the Internet – and definitively linked crack cocaine in Los Angeles and... Read more |
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Views Monday, July 14, 2014 Hillary’s Candid Motto for Democratic Party: “Represent Banks” In 1992, a 44-year-old attorney made the following remarkable assertion: “For goodness’ sake, you can’t be a lawyer if you don’t represent banks.” The attorney was Hillary Clinton. She made the statement to journalists during her husband’s first campaign for president. Her legal representation of a... Read more |
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Views Monday, December 16, 2013 Noam Chomsky Continues to Inspire This month, Noam Chomsky turned 85 – and he’s the subject of a new animated movie focused on his scientific and social philosophies. He has actually seen this movie , unlike other works about him: “I can’t stand watching myself.” Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 27, 2013 My Surprisingly Inspiring Trip to the West Bank: Echoes of Our Civil Rights Movement Read more |
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Views Sunday, July 07, 2013 How Do You Know When President Obama is Lying? MSNBC Won’t Tell You I was a young person when I first heard the quip: “How do you know when the President is lying? His lips are moving.” At the time, President Nixon was expanding the war in Vietnam to other countries and deploying the White House “plumbers” to commit crimes against antiwar leakers. Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 26, 2013 Snowden Coverage: If US Mass Media Were State-Controlled, Would They Look Any Different? The Edward Snowden leaks have revealed a U.S. corporate media system at war with independent journalism. Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 19, 2013 Trust me: Political Spying + Computers = Big Brother I know the issue of political spying – and not just because my lawful, nonviolent activism got me spied on by local, state and federal “intelligence” agencies (whose spy files on me were unearthed through successful lawsuits and partly successful Freedom of Information requests). I also spent a dozen years as a journalist, researcher and ACLU lawyer investigating the spies. Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 12, 2013 Playing the Obama Bumper Sticker Game There’s no easier way to gauge the disappointment that liberals and progressives should feel toward President Obama than to look at their cars – more specifically, their bumper stickers. Read more |