[Media-watch] This week at ColdType.net

[Tony Sutton]

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Dateline Baghdad 

Robert Fisk reports from a besieged city
Whose missile was it that blew up innocent women and children in a Baghdad
market? Not sure, we're still investigating, say Washington and London. What
about the fragment I'm holding with the serial numbers on it? asks Fisk, of
London's Independent newspaper. Read the articles that caused a storm in
Britain's Parliament  . . .

Read Fisk's reports at http://www.coldtype.net/baghdad.html

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Critical Mass 

NEW / Antonia Zerbisias's penetratig analysis of media performance
Antonia Zerbisias is Canada's most respected media critic. This week she
looks at raging neo-con media pundits, Peter Arnett's sacking, exposes the
lies of the White House hawks . . . and more.,

Read Critical Mass at http://www.coldtype.net/azerb.html

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London Calling 

George Monbiot: This war will end in disaster
"So far, the liberators have succeeded only in freeing the souls of the
Iraqis from their bodies. Saddam Hussein¹s troops have proved less inclined
to surrender than they had anticipated, and the civilians less prepared to
revolt. But while no one can now ignore the immediate problems this illegal
war has met, we are beginning, too, to understand what should have been
obvious all along: that, however this conflict is resolved, the outcome will
be a disaster. "

Read Monbiot's columns from The Guardian newspaper at
http://www.coldtype.net/London.html

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Getting A Grip

Michael I. Niman: Spinning the war -  lessons in propaganda
"Have you noticed that the recent pro-war demonstrations seem to have a
cookie-cutter feel to them? The same plastic signs with the same slogans.
The same droning ³Ooo Esss Ay² chants repeated ad nausea to the same frat
boy tune of ³drink, drink, drink.² During the last month these loud little
gatherings have been popping up around the country like zits on a boy scout.
Their eerie similarity, however, is not by chance. According to The New York
Times, most of these outbursts of bloodlust have been organized nationally
by the same group ­ not a political organization per se, but the nation¹s
largest owner of radio stations ­ Clear Channel Communications Corporation."

Check it out at http://www.coldtype.net/Grip.html

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MediaBeat

Norman Solomon: The thick fog of war on America's television
"Minutes after the dawn spread daylight across the Iraqi desert, ³embedded²
CNN correspondent Walter Rodgers was on the air with a live report. Another
employee at the network, former U.S. Gen. Wesley Clark ‹ on the job in a TV
studio back home ‹ asked his colleague a question. When Rodgers responded,
he addressed Clark as ³general² and ³sir.² The only thing missing was a
salute.That deferential tone pretty much sums up the overall relationship
between American journalists and the U.S. military on major TV networks.
Correspondents in the field have bonded with troops to the point that their
language and enunciated outlooks are often indistinguishable."

Check it out at http://www.coldtype.net/mediabeat.html

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COMING NEXT WEEK

John Pilger

Look out for ColdType's latest signing ­ Britain's most famous investigative
reporter and fierce critic of US and British foreign policy. 

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