Chicagoland Arab, Muslim community mourn passing of Miriam Zayed Local activist fought for the rights of Arabs and Muslims in the Chicagoland area and also for the rights of all in mainstream American politics. Miriam Zayed was among one of the first two Arab Americans in Chicagoland to run for public elective office in the…
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Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Editors Picks, Ghassan Rubeiz, Gulf States, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine & Jordan, Saudi Arabia, TerrorismArab , Arab World , conflict , Iran , Israel , Palestine , Palestinians , peace , regional peace , violence How racism infects the American mainstream news media Racism dominates the mainstream American news media and there are examples of this everyday in news stories that the media promotes. The real tragedy is that most Arab Americans don’t care and do nothing about it. Instead, they prefer to be led by their noses against populist…
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Is the French Mass Media Democratizing the Press?
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Is the French Mass Media Democratizing the Press? The coverage of Mr. Zemmour vs. Ms. Hapsatou Sy has let victimization and guilty prevail over freedom of the press in France By Abdennour Toumi Burton Rascoe said, “A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life,…
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