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...Cockburn, who writes for The Nation, a leftist weekly, said there are not enough alternative newspapers to replace "the insane lies that the media tells on a habitual and daily basis...
...Everyone knows who owns the press," Cockburn said, condemning the owners of various outlets for influencing the news. He said the American public believes there is a "free press," but that in certain instances, the "mainstream media can't move...
...Cockburn read an excerpt from his book parodying the MacNeil-Lehrer Report, in which reporters cut off speakers before they can express their opinions...
Praising radio as the most effective form of news coverage in America, Cockburn called it "the amniotic fluid of a progressive community...
...Cockburn's appearance was the second in Harvard Book Store's "author series," which also includes writers such as Elizabeth Young-Bruehl, author of "Anna Freud," and Richard Goodwin, author of an autobiography, "Remembering America...