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Jeff Cohen

Jeff Cohen is the director of FAIR, the New York-based media watch organization - and co-author (with Norman Solomon) of Wizards of Media Oz: Behind the Curtain of Mainstream News. © 2006 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved.

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What’s Wrong With Calling Bush A Devil?

By Jeff Cohen Guest Commentator

Across the U.S. political and media spectrum, there was wide agreement yesterday: Name-calling and personal attacks are bad for national and global dialogue. Prompting the unity were Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’ comments that President Bush was the devil incarnate, “El Diablo”. Among those exercised (and exorcized) about Chavez’ name-calling were some of the loudest name-callers…

Across the U.S. political and media spectrum, there was wide agreement yesterday: Name-calling and personal attacks are bad for national and global dialogue. Prompting the unity…

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