Jeff Cohen (media critic)

Jeff Cohen (media critic)

Jeff Cohen is the founder of Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, a media watchdog group in the US. He was formerly a lawyer for the ACLU and is the co-author of four books that criticize media bias, mainly written with Norman Solomon. He has been a regular commentator for Fox News' "Fox News Watch" and for MSNBC, and appears in "Outfoxed", a documentary critical of Fox News.

In 2008, Jeff Cohen became the founding director of the Park Center for Independent Media at the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College. He was also named an associate professor in the school's Journalism Department.

Books

* "Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media" (2006)
* "Wizards of Media Oz: Behind the Curtain of Mainstream News" (1997) (with Norman Solomon)
* "Through the Media Looking Glass: Decoding Bias and Blather in the News" (1995) (with Norman Solomon)
* "The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error" (1995) (with Steve Rendall and Jim Naureckas)
* "Adventures in Medialand: Behind the News, Beyond the Pundits" (1993) (with Norman Solomon)

External links

* [http://www.jeffcohen.org Homepage]
* [http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=10&author_id=84 Jeff Cohen] at FAIR.org
* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-cohen/#blogger_bio Jeff Cohen] bio at Huffingtonpost
* [http://www.archive.org/details/GreatSpeechesAndInterviewsWithScottRitterAndJeffCohen Scott Ritter and Jeff Cohen addressed an audience of 250 in Sacramento, CA on 1/16/08, MP3]
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6148164495116766983&hl=en Video: Jeff Cohen and Scott Ritter - U.S. Tour of Duty: The Iran Talks] (January 14, 2008)


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