JEFF COHEN - Media Critic/Educator
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Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media

WATCH Jeff on Democracy Now! about Cable News Confidential
                                      
WATCH Jeff on The Real News Network on Democrats, Progressives and Obama
                         
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THE LATEST:
Obama, Sarkozy and Taxing Wall Street (1/11/12)
Mainstream Reporters: Too Close to the Field to Get the Debt Story (7/30/11)
Obama is NOT Caving to Corporate Interests (7/24/11)

Jeff Cohen, media critic and lecturer, is founding director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, where he is an associate professor of journalism. His latest book is Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media. He has been a TV commentator at CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, and was senior producer of MSNBC’s Phil Donahue primetime show until it was terminated three weeks before the Iraq invasion. Cohen founded the media watch group FAIR in 1986. His columns on media issues have been published online at such websites as HuffingtonPost, CommonDreams and Alternet—and in dozens of dailies, including USA Today, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Atlanta Constitution, and Miami Herald.

*LISTEN: "Information Wars" on corporate media (from Jackson Browne’s album Looking East)

Wizards of Media Oz
Behind the Curtain of Mainstream News
w/Norman Solomon
Common Courage Press

The Way Things Aren't
Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error
w/Steve Rendall et al, New Press

Through the Media Looking Glass
Decoding Bias and Blather in the News
w/Norman Solomon
Common Courage Press

Adventures in Medialand
Behind the News, Beyond the Pundits
w/Norman Solomon
Common Courage Press
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