"The assumptions that shaped US thinking during the Soviet era do not apply in the case of the Arab world today. Sharply declining Arab public attitude toward the US can not be blamed on either a lack of information or on the Arab media."

"Media consumers may like to think that U.S. news outlets have become oh-so-sophisticated in recent decades and are now quite willing to report on tough criticisms of American jingoism. But I’m still waiting for a single major U.S. media outlet to do a decent job of reporting on the relaunched Country Joe Band, currently touring as a superb musical ensemble."

"...Bush welcomes Sharon the mass murderer with open arms. He pats him on the back whenever he kills more Palestinian civilians and honors him for his constant extra judicial assassinations."

"...John Kerry has been eagerly touting his own brand of militarism, a fact that’s very much on the minds of U.S. progressives."

"What our data demonstrates is what most of the world and a great number of Americans already know: Policy matters. What is disturbing, however, is the degree to which US policy makers refuse to acknowledge the role that policy plays in this widening gap that is separating America from the Arab World."

"Journalists should not automatically view events from the perspective of prison management. Yet they routinely do."

"Inasmuch as the Lobby advocates selective censorship, the great threat to our freedoms, ironically, is our insidious hate laws. Notwithstanding their noble intent, they must be repealed, because if one group can abuse them to silence another group, they are useless."

"The networks do devote some air time to the presidential race. But viewers are apt to get most of their “information” about the contest from the onslaught of paid campaign commercials. And the news reporting is usually so mired in the muck of cliches and corporatized assumptions that the spin often renders the coverage worthless or worse."