JEFF COHEN - Media Critic/Educator
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RECENT HIGHLIGHTS:
-State of the Media 2024 (Interview, 10/19/24)
-Is Netanyahu's goal to drag the US into war with Iran? (Interview, 10/13/24)
-Remembering TV Icon Phil Donahue: He Brought Antiwar Voices to the Airwaves Until MSNBC Fired Him (Democracy Now!, 8/20/24)
-Harris is tying herself too closely to Biden on Gaza (8/19/24)
-Phil Donahue Changed My Life—and Millions of Others (8/19/24)
-Remembering Phil Donahue, who lost his last TV show for opposing the Iraq war (Interview, 8/19/24)
-Why Josh Shapiro is Not the Right Choice for Harris VP (7/29/24)
-Joe Steps Aside (Ralph Nader Radio Hour interview, 7/27/24)
-An Attempt on Donald Trump's Life Should Be a Wake-up Call for Democrats (7/15/24)
                         
Prof. Cohen's 2017 Indy Media Course Blog

Media critic Jeff Cohen was founding director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, where he was an associate professor of journalism. He founded the media watch group FAIR in 1986, and cofounded the online activist group RootsAction.org in 2011. Cohen has coproduced documentary movies, including "The Corporate Coup D'Etat" and "All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception and the Spirit of I.F. Stone." He is the author of 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. His columns have been published online at such websites as Salon.com, HuffPost, CommonDreams and Truthout--and in dozens of dailies, including USA Today, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Atlanta Constitution and Miami Herald.

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Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media


WATCH Jeff on Democracy Now! about Cable News Confidential

WATCH "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
Email: info@jeffcohen.org