New Issue of FAIR's Magazine Extra! Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 14:55:45 -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. Please subscribe today at: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=106. Selected articles from the latest issue of Extra! are now available online: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3149 COVER STORY Media and Impeachment Not for discussion, only for derision By Cynthia L. Cooper While polls, demonstrations and resolutions in scores of towns and cities show record numbers of Americans support removing Bush from office, "impeachment" is barely in the national media's lexicon. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3148 Clear the Stage Media have little time, tolerance for ?second-tier? candidates By Peter Hart To pre-empt the threat of televised candidates' debates that actually raise issues of broad public concern, journalists are trying to weed out nonconforming candidates. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3150 Framing the Abortion Ruling Religious right's terms leave women out of the issue by Julie Hollar In using the jargon of anti-choice activists to discuss abortion, the media erases women from the picture?making it easier to restrict their access to safe and legal abortions. Articles only available in print: Al Gore, Smartypants New book full of big words, pundits complain By Janine Jackson Recent reviews of Gore's new book The Assault on Reason show the elite media's disdain for thinking in multipart sentences, or even reading to the end of the book. GUEST PERSPECTIVE The Poisoned Chalice Media and double standards By Noam Chomsky In U.S. media, the principle of universality that underpins international law is universally not applied to the U.S. COUNTERSPIN INTERVIEW Ali Abunimah on Gaza ?It?s the exact opposite of a coup? Author Ali Abunimah exposes the hypocrisy of the U.S. claim to be defending Palestinian democracy from a coup, after the U.S. armed a Fatah militia to overthrow the elected government. The Climate Change Gap U.S. media fiddle while Earth burns By Neil deMause International scientific consensus on global warming prevails---except in U.S. media. Disposable People The ?upside? to natural and unnatural disasters By Roger Bybee Media's preferred New Orleans reconstruction plans eliminate the main impediment to economic growth: the majority of the city's residents. Extra!, FAIR's 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. $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.