Peter Hart
Peter Hart is the Communications Director at the National Coalition Against Censorship. Previously at the media watchdog group FAIR, Hart is also the author of "The Oh Really? Factor: Unspinning Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly" (2003).
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Views Thursday, March 19, 2015 Palestine Solidarity…Censored? Tonight, the Missouri History Museum was supposed to be hosting an event called “Ferguson to Ayotzinapa to Palestine: Solidarity and Collaborative Action.” The discussion was organized by the Washington University student group AltaVoz, in collaboration with several other community activist groups... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, December 16, 2014 NBC: Someday We Might Learn That Drones Kill Civilians A critical look at US drone attacks is not the kind of thing you expect to see on a Sunday chat show, but that is what NBC 's Meet the Press gave viewers on December 14. Still, there were some problems. Anchor Chuck Todd explained at the beginning that Barack Obama's foreign policy has been drone-... Read more |
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Views Friday, December 05, 2014 In NYT's Retelling of Eric Garner's Death, the Officer's Arm Has a Mind of Its Own A piece in the New York Times ( 12/3/14 ) about Eric Garner's death included a weird description of the videotaped chokehold that killed him: On the videos, Mr. Garner, a 350-pound man who was about to be arrested for illegally selling cigarettes, can be seen first complaining of harassment, then... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 25, 2014 Big Media’s Crummy Advice for Democrats Before anyone even knew just how badly the Democrats would get trounced in the 2014 midterm elections, some pundits were already sending the party a message: Be more like the Republicans. Now they don’t put it that way, exactly. The professional campaign watchers like to say instead that the... Read more |
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Views Saturday, November 15, 2014 Debating How—Not Whether—to Launch a New War Moments after Barack Obama’s September 10 primetime address laying out a military plan to attack ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria, CNN featured a debate between Republican Sen. John McCain and former White House press secretary Jay Carney. The somewhat contentious exchange went viral. “Carney,... Read more |
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Views Friday, November 14, 2014 Obama's 'Hot Anti-Wall Street Rhetoric'? With that midterm election out of the way, media are spending even more time talking about the 2016 presidential race. And one of the themes is how Hillary Clinton will create distance from the Obama administration's record. Along those lines, Politico has a piece ( 11/11/14 ) by William Cohan that... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 29, 2014 Nonvoters Are People Too There's plenty of chatter about the upcoming midterm elections out there–though, as the right-wing Media Research Center ( 10/22/14 ) recently reported, not very much on the high-profile network evening newscasts. But there's one common election-year observation that, while true, misses the point... Read more |
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Views Friday, October 24, 2014 The Big Problem With Time's Teacher-Bashing Cover Story With a cover that announces "Rotten Apples: It's Nearly Impossible to Fire a Bad Teacher" alongside an image of a judge's gavel about to smash a fruit, you might suspect Time magazine ( 10/23/14 ) is doing some good old-fashioned teacher-bashing. You'd be right. There are a few problems with the... Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 23, 2014 Chuck Todd, Militarism and Media Diversity To his credit, NBC Meet the Press host Chuck Todd is doing interviews with some press critics; he spoke to NYU professor Jay Rosen ( 10/9/14) recently, and also to liberal watchdog group Media Matters ( 10/22/14 ). And some of his comments to the latter are revealing; Todd really wants to mix... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 22, 2014 A 'Worthless and Whiny' Attack on a Genuine Journalistic Hero In 1996, in the wake of his explosive "Dark Alliance" series for the San Jose Mercury News ( 8/18-20/96 ), the Washington Post was one of the major newspapers to attack Gary Webb ( FAIR Blog , 10/21/14 ). It's 2014, and they're still at it. Since the release of the film Kill the Messenger , there... Read more |