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Norman Solomon As police fired rubber bullets through tear gas in Quebec City, many reporters echoed the claim that “free trade” promotes…
Norman Solomon
Norman Solomon is an American journalist, author, media critic and activist. Solomon is a longtime associate of the media watch group Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR). In 1997 he founded the Institute for Public Accuracy, which works to provide alternative sources for journalists, and serves as its executive director. Solomon's weekly column "Media Beat" was in national syndication from 1992 to 2009. He was a Bernie Sanders delegate to the 2016 and 2020 Democratic National Conventions. Since 2011, he has been the national director of RootsAction.org. He is the author of thirteen books including "War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine” (The New Press, 2023).
Solomon Media commentators are split about Bob Kerrey and what happened 32 years ago in the Vietnamese village of Thanh Phong. Some…
Norman Solomon Many Americans have seen the digital dream of global communications vividly expressed on TV commercials for Cisco Systems. Eager to…
Solomon It’s not easy to look at ourselves as others might see us. For a country, the need is especially acute in…
Norman Solomon In Africa, 17 million people have already died of AIDS. In developing countries around the world, twice that many are…
Solomon When the Ameritrade company launched a $200 million marketing drive to explain the joys of online trading in autumn 1999, a…
Norman Solomon Henry Kissinger usually has an easy time defending the indefensible on national television. But he faced some pointed questions during…
Norman Solomon The question, from a participant in Porto Alegre, Brazil at the World Social Forum, was polite and understated: “Sometimes, one…
Norman Solomon In Africa, 17 million people have already died of AIDS. In developing countries around the world, twice that many are…
Norman Solomon The World Social Forum here in southern Brazil is being reported around the planet as an oppositional counterpoint to the…