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How the press stabbed Detroit in the back
In a new article for CounterPunch, I show that, by failing to blow the whistle on protectionism in key foreign markets, the American press shares blame for Detroit’s implosion. For decades East Asian competition has played a controversial role in … Continue reading
The complaisant watchdog: how the press missed the Madoff scandal
The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times slept while Bernie Madoff swindled. [Article first published in CounterPunch. To read the original click here.] An old maxim has it that newspaper editors separate the wheat from the chaff, then … Continue reading
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Tagged chittum, counterpunch, deogun, front-running, garrity, gerald seib, gretchen morgenson, howard kurtz, madoff, markopolos, michael lewis, mort zuckerman, nexis, paul steiger, red flag, wilke
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Iris Chang: Elegy for a brave writer
Iris Chang was a Chinese-American author and historian who took her own life in 2004. As Paula Kamen recounts in a new biography, Chang had challenged the establishments of two of the world’s most powerful nations. [This review was first … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews, China, History, Press, Sino-Japanese relations
Tagged advertising pressure, bataan, charles burress, clustering, counterpunch, ian buruma, iris chang, nanking, newsweek, paula kamen, Sino-Japanese relations, the wages of guilt, urbana-champaign, war compensation
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