Articles by Jeff Cohen
Articles on Independent Media (2008–present)
Columns on Politics and Media (1996–present)
Media Beat Columns (with Norman Solomon, 1992–1996)
Columns on Media (1986–1992)
Articles in Extra!, the magazine of FAIR
P.U.-litzer Prizes, the foulest media performances of the year
Interviews with and articles about Jeff Cohen
Articles on Independent Media (2008–present):
Izzy Stone, Patron Saint of Bloggers (6/16/08)
Jeff Cohen's Shortlist of Documentaries (MediaRights, 6/11/08)
Military Propaganda Pushed Me Off TV (4/28/08)
Iraq Winter Soldier Hearings: Victory for Independent Media (3/17/08)
Columns on Politics and Media (1996–present):
News Flash: Anchor Stands Against ''Unfair'' Campaign Spending (6/21/08)
McClellan and His Media Collaborators (5/30/08)
40 Years Later, (The Late) Martin Luther King Still Silenced (4/4/08)
Stepford Republicans: All Caught on Tape (2/1/08)
If Gore Were to Run, Could We Trust Him? (10/15/07, based on 2006 column)
Pundit Elite Enraptured by Hillary's ''Flawless Campaign'' (10/5/07)
Senate Clown Show (9/22/07)
Hillary Rolls On: Are Netroots a Paper Tiger? (9/4/07)
What Olbermann Should Ask Dems (8/7/07)
Are Media Out to Get John Edwards? (6/1/07)
Don’t Think of a U.S. Soldier, Unarmed, Abandoned in Iraq’s Civil War! (5/23/07)
Falwell and Me (5/16/07)
The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV (4/4/07)
Jonah Golberg's Gambling Debt: Will Tribune Company Pay It? (2/7/07)
Will Healthcare Timidity Trip Up Hillary Clinton? (2/2/07)
Jim Webb's Democratic Response... to Hillary and Obama (1/24/07)
Can Indy Media Stop the Corporate Media's Hillary Bandwagon? (1/22/07)
Inside TV News: We Were Silenced by the Drums of War (12/26/06)
TV Blowhard Barks at Iran: Let’s Hold CNN Accountable (11/27/06)
How to Turn This Election Into a Progressive Mandate (10/27/06)
Let's Challenge TV's Lockout of Progressives (10/24/06)
Is Olbermann on Thin Ice? (10/3/06)
''Devil'' in the Details: Chavez, Limbaugh and Hypocrisy on Name Calling (9/22/06)
Ann Coulter and Me (9/20/06)
''I'm Not a Leftist, But I Play One on TV'' (9/18/06)
Smoking Gun: Washington Post Hires Top Bush Speechwriter (9/14/06)
Sick Puppy Meets Media Beast (8/29/06)
Hillary Still Hiding on War; Time Warner Provides Cover (8/24/06)
TV News Vultures Circling JonBenet's Corpse—Again (8/18/06)
Lamont's Victory—A Media Defeat (8/9/06)
Being a TV Expert Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry (8/4/06)
Can Al Gore Be Trusted? (7/19/06)
Go To Venezuela, You Idiot! (7/6/06)
Hillary, Rupert and the Culture of Corruption (5/10/06)
I'm Tired of Bushes and Clintons (5/3/06)
Hillary, You're Not Listening (11/23/05)
Weaponsgate is a Media Scandal (10/24/05)
Schiavo Case: Media Pander to the Right (3/29/05)
R.I.P. Gary Webb -- Unembedded Reporter (12/13/04)
Anti-Terrorism Tip: Quit Spying on Nonviolent Activists (8/23/04)
A Global Perspective on Defeating Bush (8/10/04)
A Progressive Response to the Nader Campaign (5/7/04)
Liars Lose -- The Lessons of Regime Change in Spain (3/15/04)
Iowa, the Democrats and the Media (1/20/04)
Bush and Iraq: Mass Media, Mass Ignorance (12/1/03)
4 New Questions for This Year's Passover Dinner (4/2/03)
What Is A Terrorist? (5/1/02)
Internet Samizdat Releases Suppressed Voices, History (11/30/01)
Rule of Law vs. Rule of War: Are Media Missing the Lesson of Oklahoma City? (9/20/01)
Remembering the Last US Retaliation Against Terror (9/15/01)
"The Agency" on CBS: Right Time but Wrong Show (10/8/01)
The Return of Otto Reich: Will Government Propagandist Join Bush Administration? (6/8/01)
The Myth of the Media's Role in Vietnam (5/6/01)
Pitching Softballs: Why are Journalists Going Easy on Bush? (3/25/01)
Democrats, Clinton and the Marc Rich Scandal (3/11/01)
Why Not Open the Debates to Others? (9/24/00)
Can We Trust The Debates Commission? (9/21/00)
Ghost Of 1968 Haunts Presidential Campaign (8/13/00)
Can A Man Who Has A Problem With People Of Color Be A Color Commentator On 'Monday Night Football'? (6/7/00)
Nader Has The Numbers But Buchanan Has The Limelight (4/16/00)
Democrats Suffer From a Bad Case of Clintonism (4/9/00)
Mainstream News Coverage Of Economics: Elite Bias Rules (3/00)
John McCain and the Media: A Buss-Fest or a Bust? (2/24/00)
Gun Control, the NRA and the Second Amendment (2/00)
Media Coverage of Religion: An Overview (12/99)
Covering The Private Lives of Politicians (11/99)
In His Own Words: The History Book on Patrick Buchanan (10/3/99)
Racism and Mainstream Media (10/99)
Dissecting the Media Hype on Hillary (3/7/99)
Right-wing Bias in Talk TV (3/99)
Remembering The 1980s: The Press Slept While Reagan Rambled (2/7/99)
Media in Cruise Control in Wake of U.S. Bombings (9/1/98)
Maybe the Public-- Not the Press-- Has A Leftist Bias (7/5/98)
The Stories Television Doesn't Tell (5/98)
Press Pursued Private, Not Public, Deception (2/15/98)
"Mr. Anchorman, Have You Ever Committed Adultery?" (2/8/98)
News Media in Hot Pursuit...Or in Heat? (2/1/98)
The Problem Isn't Brinkley, It's Corporate Sponsorship (1/25/98)
Hidden Culprit in Campaign Finance Scandal: The TV Industry (5/4/97)
From the Left: A Deafening Silence (3/30/97)
Filegate Can't Be Compared to Crimes of Watergate (7/3/96)
Media Beat Columns (with Norman Solomon, 1992–1996):
Prejudice That Kills: The Toll in AIDS (1/17/96)
Robert Parry: Investigative Journalism vs. Conventional Wisdom (1/10/96)
A Town's Fight Against Hate (12/13/95)
'Leftist' Pundits Veer Right (11/29/95)
We Interrupt This News Program...For An Apology (11/15/95)
Bill Bennett's Hypocrisy Is No Virtue (11/1/95)
PR for Dictators (10/25/95)
After 'Million Man March,' Still No Urban Policy (10/18/95)
'Big Business' Gets a Free Ride (10/11/95)
Columbus Day: Time to End the Myth (10/4/95)
Macneil/Lehrer NewsHour at 20: Hold the Cheers (9/27/95)
Jim Hightower: Radio Populist To Be Muzzled? (9/20/95)
Routine Somersaults of Self-Censorship (9/13/95)
Colin Powell: Don't Believe the Hype (9/6/95)
USA: Union-busting States of America (8/31/95)
Cig Smoke Made ABC/Disney Flinch (8/23/95)
It's Not Always White Hats vs. Black Hats (8/16/95)
Media Brass Keep Secrets for Bohemian Grove (8/9/95)
Prison Voices Often Muted (8/2/95)
Gingrich Off the Hook in Susan Smith Case? (7/26/95)
Press Critic George Seldes Leaves a Legacy of Courage (7/12/95)
Bombing on A-Bomb Coverage (7/5/95)
Love Boat: Politicians and Media Moguls (6/28/95)
Clarence Thomas: Affirmative Action Success Story (6/21/95)
Advertising: Cash Cow for TV Networks (6/14/95)
The Distant Stars of the Pundit Elite (6/7/95)
FBI Abuse: The Dossiers (5/10/95)
Colombia: Where Terrorism Rules (5/3/95)
Knee-Jerk Coverage of Bombing Should Not Be Forgotten (4/26/95)
Ellsberg's Heroism, McNamara's Cowardice (4/19/95)
Press Corps Out to Lunch on GOP Lie (4/12/95)
TV-Turnoff Week (4/5/95)
Baseball Players Strike Out on Capitol Hill (3/15/95)
Save Public Television: Pull the Plug on PBS Bureaucrats (1/18/95)
Downpour of Media Cliches Threatens to Flood Nation (1/11/95)
The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV (1/4/95)
A Tale Of Two Broadcasters (12/7/94)
Glimmers of History Improve Coverage of Native Americans (11/23/94)
Spotlight Finally Shines On White Hate Radio (11/3/94)
Just Imagine: A Media Crusade Against Big-Money Politics (10/5/94)
Surprising Reasons for Violence on the Screen (9/28/94)
Jimmy Carter and Human Rights: Behind the Media Myth (9/21/94)
The Woodstock Story Never Told: Greenpeace vs. Pepsi (8/17/94)
Another Media Celebrity Charged With Murder (8/3/94)
30-Year Anniversary: Tonkin Gulf Lie Launched Vietnam War (7/27/94)
Tobacco Wars: The First Casualty Is Candor (7/20/94)
Limbaugh—Defending The Way Things Aren't (7/19/94)
News Flash: O.J. Simpson Is Not Robbing You and Your Children (7/13/94)
Founding Fathers Benefit From Media Gloss (7/6/94)
Help for Limbaugh (6/29/94)
''Middle Class'' Label Veils Fat-Cats Behind Democrats (6/15/94)
''Crime Time'' News Exploits Fears (6/8/94)
Who's Heard, and Who Isn't, on Public Radio? (5/25/94)
Fate of U.S. Broadcasting Virtually Sealed 60 Years Ago (5/4/94)
Press Tributes to Nixon Dishonor the Dead (4/27/94)
War on the Tube: So Close Yet So Far Away (4/20/94)
Whitewater: The Press Now Drowns in Story (3/30/94)
Tributes to Randy Shilts Ignored His Media Criticism (2/23/94)
Decoding the Rich Pundits: Who Do They Mean By ''We''? (2/16/94)
IMF and World Bank: Global Loan Sharks and the Media (2/9/94)
Clintons vs. Insurance Industry: A Media Myth (11/24/93)
Gore is Green. . .Like the Color of Money (11/3/93)
Haiti: Coverage Leaves Out Vital History (10/27/93)
Chile Coup—Media Coverage Still Evasive 20 Years Later (9/8/93)
Media to Immigrants: We Dim the Lamp for You (8/4/93)
''Free Trade'' vs. Free Press (7/21/93)
Human Rights and Media Wrongs (7/7/93)
Missiles Hit Iraq: History and Issues Ignored (6/30/93)
Orwell's Unhappy 90th Birthday (6/23/93)
15 Questions About ''The Liberal Media'' (6/9/93)
Media Elite Prods Clinton Toward Status Quo (6/2/93)
U.S. Press Ignores Israeli Prisoner (5/26/93)
Upton Sinclair, Media Critic behind ''The Jungle'' (5/22/93)
National Health Insurance: Time for a Real Debate (5/12/93)
Cesar Chavez Obits Bury Media Hypocrisy (5/5/93)
Advice for Reading Between the Lines (3/10/93)
On Local TV News, if It Bleeds It (Still) Leads (2/3/93)
We Need Term Limits for Political Pundits (11/9/92)
Media Blind Spots in Campaign '92 (11/8/92)
What Voters Don't Know May Hurt Them (10/14/92)
A Tale of Two Terrorists: Theirs vs. Ours (4/8/92)
Columns on Media (1986–1992):
The Culture of Lying (12/16/91)
Can the Press Cover the Old Boys Club That Owns It? (11/26/91)
Unreliable Review? (3/91)
Hypocrisy on Terrorism: The Case of Luis Posada (1/9/89)
What We Call "The Left" is a Timid Distortion (8/24/86)
Articles in Extra!, the magazine of FAIR:
Report from Porto Alegre: Is Another Media World Possible? (5-6/02)
CNN's "Tailwind" and Selective Media Retractions (Extra!Update, 8/1998)
The "Hush Rush" Hoax (11-12/94)
Are All Yeltsin Critics "Hard-Line" -- Or Is That Just the U.S. Media's Party Line? (1-2/94)
Rev. Wildmon Bites the Burger (1-2/91)
Television's Political Spectrum (7-8/90)
The "Objective" Reporter's Lexicon: We, Us, Our (1-2/90)
Propaganda from the Middle of the Road: The Centrist Ideology of the News Media (10-11/89)
What's FAIR? (6/87)
P.U.-litzer Prizes, the foulest media performances of the year
(as judged by Norman Solomon and Jeff Cohen):
Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2007
Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2006
The P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2005
The P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2004
Announcing the P.U.-Litzer Prizes for 2003
Announcing the P.U.-Litzer Prizes For 2002
Announcing the P.U.-Litzer Prizes for 2001
The P.U.-Litzer Prizes For 2000
The Last P.U.-litzer Prizes of the 20th Century
And Now, The P.U.-litzer Prizes for 1998
Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 1997
Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 1995
Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 1994
Interviews with and articles about Jeff Cohen:
Jeff Cohen's Shortlist of Documentaries (MediaRights, 6/11/08)
Local Luminary: FAIR Founder Jeff Cohen (Chronogram, 5/07)
Media Watchdog Aims to Expose Flaws of Cable News (Daily Freeman, 4/1/07)
Media Critic on Why It’s Only Getting Worse (Truthdig, 3/23/07) — LISTEN to the audio file
FAIR Founder Jeff Cohen on his misadventures in corporate media (Democracy Now!, 10/11/06) — WATCH the video
Cable News Confidential (AlterNet, 9/19/06) — with two Crossfire videos
Jeff Cohen: Optimistic about alternative media (Portland Alliance, 5/05)
Monitoring the Media: Now Age Interview with Jeff Cohen (8/25/04)
The Case Against GE (Multinational Monitor, 7–8/01)
Watching the Media: Craig Gordon/Mirabai Interview with Jeff Cohen (2001)
A Watchdog's Bark and Bite (L.A. Times interview by Howard Rosenberg, 12/27/99)
Gulf War I: A Case Study in Media Coverage (Interview by David Barsamian, 2/91)
From NewsHour to Nightline: Experts Enforce the Party Line (Interview by David Barsamian, 1/90)
A Call to Media Activism (Active Citizenship, 1990)
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