New Issue of FAIR's Magazine Extra! Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:10:03 -0500 (CDT) New Issue of Extra! Subscriptions to FAIR's bimonthly magazine Extra! are a big part of what keeps FAIR going--helping us provide free services like the action alerts on this list. Subscribe today at: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=106 Selected articles from the latest issue of FAIR's magazine Extra! are now available online at: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4 Cover story THE MEDIA'S MAYOR Mythologizing Giuliani and 9/11 By Steve Rendall What Rudy-boosting reporters aren't telling you about "Giuliani's finest hour." ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL Press ignores congressional OK for martial law By Robert Kubey What if Congress gave Bush the power to use the military and National Guard for whatever domestic purposes he chooses--and no one in the media reported it? BONO, I PRESUME? Covering Africa through celebrities By Julie Hollar Treating the continent as a backdrop for the philanthropic adventures of rock musicians and Hollywood stars results in Africa stories that don't actually tell you anything about Africa. ARTICLES ONLY AVAILABLE IN PRINT: STANDING BY THEIR RACIST FRIEND Before firing, pundits defended Imus By Peter Hart Though his racist, misogynist outburst got talkshow host Don Imus dropped from CBS radio and MSNBC, it's worth taking a look at the prominent mainstream journalists who rushed to his defense when he called Rutgers' women's basketball players "nappy-headed hos." IN DENIAL ON CLIMATE CHANGE Leading pundits reject science on global warming By Peter Hart Though those who argue that humans aren't causing global warming may be viewed as flat-earthers in scientific circles, climate change "skeptics" are still passionately arguing against doing anything on the mainstream media's airwaves and op-ed pages. CounterSpin Transcript 'WESTERN MEDIA MUST SHARE RESPONSIBILITY' Mahmood Mamdani on Darfur In an interview with FAIR's radio show CounterSpin, Columbia University anthropology and government professor Mahmood Mamdani sheds light on the essential context that has been left out in Western news reporting on Darfur, arguing that by ignoring the complexities of Sudan's civil war, the media may actually worsen the crisis. Book Excerpt MAKE YOUR OWN DAMN SIGN! By Laura Flanders In this excerpt from her new book Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians, Laura Flanders takes a critical view of the establishment Democrats' communications efforts. While its certainly true that the mainstream media is stacked against them, liberal politicians aren't making use of the progressive alternatives that exist. This issue of Extra! also includes a full-page, full-color Tom Tomorrow cartoon. Extra!, the bimonthly magazine of hard-hitting, well-documented media criticism, tackles the same types of issues as this online activist list, but in greater depth and detail. With every new issue, we make a few featured articles available online free of charge. But because Extra! subscriptions play a vital role in keeping FAIR going, the only way we can give you access to the full magazine is if you subscribe. Please subscribe today--you'll get a year's worth of first-rate media criticism delivered to your door, starting with this issue, and help sustain FAIR. To subscribe online today, or to find out more about Extra! subscriptions, visit: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=106 $21 per year gets you six issues of Extra!, plus six issues of Extra! Update, the activist newsletter of FAIR--not available on any newsstand. SPECIAL OFFER Subscribe for two years ($40) and get FAIR founder Jeff Cohen's new book, Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media, absolutely free. /*Your email ID. --*/