BOOK REVIEW: Two recent books on the U.S. response to the global AIDS catastrophe
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- Written by Hank Berger
This week the 15th International AIDS Conference is being held in Bangkok. A fellow at the Harvard University School of Public Health reviews two recent books on the U.S.'s response to the catastrophe of AIDS in Tuesday's New York Times. Both authors are outraged, and there is plenty of blame to go around -- not least to a silently complicit public....
BOOK REVIEW: <I>Bad News from Israel</I>, reviewed in the <I>Observer</I>
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- Written by Fred Moreau
A book by a Glasgow Univ. team analyzing British coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict from late 2000 to the spring of 2002 "makes the scientifically based case that the main news and current affairs programs -- with the rare exception, usually on Channel 4 -- are failing to tell us the real story and the reasons behind it," writes Tim Llewellyn, who covered the Middle East for the BBC for 10 years. Bad News from Israel also analyzes the results of this coverage: ignorance and false ideas about the Middle East that are pervasive among the British public....
BOOK REVIEW: In <I>Homeland</I>, Dale Maharidge's 'Star Wars journalism' examines post-9/11 America
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- Written by Hank Berger
In his new book, Homeland, journalist Dale Maharidge looks to see what's behind rage the Bush adminstration tapped into post-9/11. He finds, in many cases, fear -- the anxiety of people trying to thrive and afraid that they're not making it. What he describes as a "30-year war against the working class" has created dangerous tensions in U.S. society -- tensions that the right knows how to tap into. "[September 11] uncorked the genie. 'People had hate, they had anger,' Maharidge says in an interview. 'But it was directionless. After 9/11, it had direction. George Bush was channeling the anger,' " writes Annette Fuentes in In These Times....