The Fromson File

Reporting, analysis and commentary on current and historical events by Murray Fromson, veteran journalist and professor emeritus at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication.

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WHAAAT?

April 22nd, 2009 No Comments

If you wonder what you’ll be missing when newspapers vanish, consider two stories that appeared in morning newspapers that have yet to make it to the online geniuses who will decide the content of alternative journalism in the near future. Both examples deal with the infuriating decisions rendered by the bureaucrats in the service of [...]

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Obama, Turkey and History

April 7th, 2009 No Comments

For those of us who have lived abroad for many years and despaired of the way the image and reputation of the United States had been tarnished during the past eight years, it was a welcome relief to hear the message delivered by Barack Obama in Turkey. From the podium of the National Assembly in [...]

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News From the Muddled East

April 3rd, 2009 No Comments

When I first visited the Golan Heights as a reporter a few weeks after Israel captured it in 1967 and walked through the rubble of what remained of the Syrian army, I could not imagine that 42 years later, the territory would still be central to a solution of the Arab-Israeli conflict. But to read [...]

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Here We Go Again in Mexico

March 25th, 2009 No Comments

It will be high on the news budget the next few days as the visit of the Secretary of State and her assemblage of experts are pursued by a horde of reporters. No doubt, the focus will be on the drug war and the misplaced notion that somehow Mexico is close to being a failed [...]

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