New Issue of FAIR's Magazine Extra!
 
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:46:18 -0600 (CST)

New Issue of Extra!

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Selected articles from the latest issue of Extra! are now available at
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Miseducation
The media and the Supreme Court on race and public education
By Jacqueline Bacon
The media paint the Supreme Court ruling overturning school desegregation
policies as a civil rights victory.

Rudy Giuliani, Teflon Candidate
Scandals are non-stories for 'America's Mayor'
By Steve Rendall
Despite the G.O.P hopeful's association with child  molestatation and crack,
his media image is nearly untarnished.

Transforming Coverage
Transgender issues get greater respect--but anatomy remains destiny
By Julie Hollar
News coverage of transgender issues is on the rise, but the media fails to
move beyond discriminatory misconceptions.

Turning 'Won't' Into 'Can't'
By Jim Naureckas
Corporate media provide misleading cover for Democrats' failure to take
responsibility for ending an unpopular war.

Articles only available in print:

COVER STORY
No Way Out
Withdrawing from withdrawal from Iraq
By Peter Hart
After Americans voted  for peace, the media re-upped for war.

Enabling False Convictions
Exoneration coverage overlooks media role
By Jon Whiten
In covering the mistakes that led to false convictions, the media omits its
own errors.

Terror Talk Crowds Out Context
Wiretapping Americans for foreign intelligence
By Cynthia L. Cooper
Media complicity helped rush through a bill stripping citizens' protections
from government spying.

BOOK EXCERPT
Journalists Humbled but Unrepentent
Despite Iraq disaster, questioning authority still taboo
By Robert Parry, Sam Parry & Nat Parry
From the  new  book Neck Deep: The  Disastrous  Presidency of George W. Bush.

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SPECIAL OFFER: Subscribe for two years ($40) and get a free copy of Noam
Chomsky's new book Interventions. Interventions collects Chomsky's essays and
writings for the New York Times Syndicate ?works published all around the
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Times). Chomsky, America9s foremost political intellectual and dissident,
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