Middle East Research and Information Project

Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971

Sam Husseini

Sam Husseini, former media director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, is communications director for the Institute for Policy Accuracy, a consortium of policy experts. The views expressed here are his own.

MER Article

Short-Circuiting the Media/Policy Machine

Media coverage of the February 1998 showdown with Iraq highlighted subtle but significant changes in the relationship between the mainstream media and US foreign policymaking. Although the major media -- despite some alleged soul searching by media professionals [1] after the Gulf war -- have change

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