Michael Corcoran

Journalist/writer largely focusing on media issues and healthcare policy

7/4/07

Sweet Victory: Fourth of July edition

On Patriotism and Independence Day.
Posted by Michael Corcoran at 7:52 AM
Labels: sweet victories
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About the Author

  • About the Author
  • New Truthout Bio (with 5 most recent article)
  • Truthout 2010-2018
  • Boston Globe archives
  • Boston.com archives
  • FAIR archives
  • Nation magazine archives
  • Guardian archives
  • Alternet archives
  • Electronic Intifada archives
  • Znet page

Recently Published Work

  • Candidates Backed by Sanders’s “Our Revolution” Organization Achieve Early Success (Truthout, 5/31/18)
  • Fear The Ballot Initiative: Why The GOP Is Scared Of Democracy (Truthout, 5/27/18)
  • Redistricting and the 2018 Elections: Can Democrats Stop the GOP's Winning Streak? (Truthout, 5/10/18)
  • Medicaid Work Requirements: Trump's War On The Poor Expands, One State At A Time (Truthout, 4/25/18)
  • Trump's New VA Pick Appears Poised To Rubber-Stamp Privatization Of Veterans Affairs (Truthout, 4/2/18)
  • Single-Payer Health Care Takes Center Stage In Gubernatorial Races (Truthout, 2/29/18)
  • Blue Cross Pressures Employees To Donate To Opponent Of Single-Payer Candidates (Truthout, 2/23/18)
  • A Koch-Supported Coup At The VA? The Veterans Health Administration Risks Being Dismantled (3/20/18)
  • A Legal Battle Is Mounting Against the GOP’s Attack on Medicaid (Truthout, 2/6/18)
  • The People Vs. The Democratic Establishment: The Coming Attack On Progressive Candidates (Truthout, 1/30/18)
  • How to Build a Single-Payer Health System: Lessons for Taiwan (Truthout, 1/3/18)
  • Trump's FCC Spends Year Waging War on the Press (Truthout, 12/6/17)
  • Thousands Of Bernies? Progressive Groups Aim To Build A Majority From The Bottom Up (Truthout,8/6/17)
  • The Battles Ahead: Meet the Biggest Opponents of Single-Payer (Truthout, 7/5/17)
  • Public Option vs Medicare for All (Truthout, 10/25/17)
  • Single-Payer Fight Fuels Primary Challengers Against Establishment Democrats (Truthout, 8/23/17)
  • Sanders Single-Payer Bill Electrifies Single-Payer Movement (Truthout, 9/14/17
  • As GOP Attacks Health Care, Movement for Single-Payer Grows Across Country (Truthout, 9/26/17)
  • How Civil Disobedience Helped Kill Trumpcare (Truthout, 7/28/17)
  • Bernie Sanders Goes to Canada for Health Care Inspiration (Truthout, 11/6/17)
  • Why Even the Private Health Industry Hates Trumpcare (Truthout)
  • The People vs. the Student Loan Industry (Truthout)
  • Trump Uses Power of the FCC to Pay Back Friends at Sinclair (FAIR)
  • GOP Declares War on Sick People: the Moral Depravity of Trumpcare (Truthout)
  • Single-Payer Seeing Record Support in Congress (Truthout)
  • Fair Game; Resistance Pressures Complicit Democrats (Truthout)
  • Spicer's Hand-Picked Press Corps (FAIR)
  • DLC Lives: Third-Way Democrats Push Democrats Rightward (Truthout)
  • CNN's Revolving Door of Political Hackery (Truthout)
  • Clinton's VP Short List is Short on Progressives (Truthout)
  • Why Hillary Clinton and the ACA Won't Solve Health Care Crisis (Truthout)
  • Wall Street's Veto Power: Why Warren is Unlikely to be Running Mate (Truthout)
  • Why Bernie Sanders Critique of Israel Matters (Truthout)
  • Obama's Victory Dance in Argentina (Truthout)
  • The Koch Brothers Attempt to Kill Single-Payer in Colorado (Truthout)
  • The Dominant Media, 'Left-Leaning' Economists and the Illussion of Consensus (Truthout)
  • Democracy in Peril: 20 Years of Media Consolidation Under the Telecommunications Act (Truthout)
  • The 'State' of Health Reform: Activists Push for Universal Primary Care in Vermont (Truthout)
  • Hillary Clinton Declares War on Single-Payer Health Care (Truthout)
  • From Dean to Clinton: Populism as an Electoral Strategy (Truthout)
  • Bernie Sanders and the Limits of Electoral Politics (Truthout)
  • Hillary Clinton's Ghosts: Clinton's Legacy of Pushing Party to the Right (Truthout)
  • Why Rand Paul Called Hillary Clinton a 'Neo-con' (Truthout)
  • The Republicans' Manufactured Media War (Truthout)
  • Will Colorado Become the First Sttate to Implement Colorado? (Truthout)
  • Protecting the Shield: Why ESPN Can't be Trusted to Cover the NFL (Truthout)
  • Crises at Pacifica Radio (Truthout)
  • Blaming the Victims: Media Bias Against Struggling Millennials (Truthout)
  • Dark Money Dominates Election (Extra!)
  • Media Failures Lead to Flawed Understandings in Cherokee Adoption Case (Truthout)
  • How Google Is Helping the Gas Lobby Support Fracking (Truthout)
  • Impossible Choices? The Conservatism of "Breaking Bad" (Truthout)
  • Little Credibility: U.S. Coverage of Iranian-Latin American Relations (NACLA)
  • The Corporate Media's Attempt to Kill Occupy (Truthout)
  • Ignoring Monetary Stimulus as Economic Policy(Extra!)
  • Uygur Out at MSNBC (Extra!)
  • Smear Campaigns Fuel Shutdowns of Occupations Across Country (Truthout)
  • Democrats and the Death of Keynesian Economics (Truthout)
  • The End of the Bill Keller Era (Extra!)
  • MSNBC's Flawed Coverage of Libya, Economy (Truthout)
  • The myth of U.S. humanitarian intervention in Libya (International Socialist Review)
  • Corporate Media Takes a Side in Debate Over 'Entitlements' (Truthout)
  • Al-Jazeera, as endorsed by Hillary Clinton (The Guardian)
  • Media Don't Bite the Ruling that Feeds them (Extra!)
  • Media Distortions Legitimize Honduras Regime (Truthout)
  • Ecuador crisis, media bias (Nacla Report on the Americas)
  • The US Media and the Crisis in Ecuador (Nacla.org)
  • Media Continue Bank Bailout Advocacy (Extra!)
  • Media Manipulates the "End" of the War in Iraq (Truthout)
  • New Figures Show Student Loan Debt Exceeds Credit Card Debt (Campus Progress)
  • The Flotilla Story the US Media Won't Report (Extra!)
  • Singlepayer isn't dead: how the states are keeping it alive (Truthout)
  • New Bankruptcy Legislation Could Provide Relief For Those Buried in Student Debt(Campus Progress)
  • Human Rights Watch flotilla stance mirrors that of US, Israel (The Electronic Intifada)
  • Israel's Ongoing War Against the Press (Truthout)
  • Book argues 'Obama Zombies' Will Destroy America (Campus Progress)
  • The Flawed Media Narrative in the Healthcare Debate (Extra!)
  • A Tale of Two Elections: Honduras and Iran (Nacla Report on the Americas)
  • Rebuilding Media (Campus Progress)
  • ''To the Next Generation of Rebel Voices' (Campus Progress -- obit/analysis about Howard Zinn and college campuses)
  • Massachusetts election could save Democrats from themselves(The Christian Science Monitor)
  • NYT's Double Standard on Nuclear Proliferation (Extra!)
  • Healthcare Reform and the Crisis of US Democracy (Firedoglake.com)
  • Jim Cramer's Mad Memory (Campus Progress)
  • The Cult of Michael Moore (Campus Progress)
  • How Obama Fooled the Left: Rhetorical Manipulation and its Consequences (ZNet)
  • Single-payer health care: dead in Washington, but alive in the states. (The Christian Science Monitor)
  • The Weekly Standard's War (Extra!)
  • Trying to make "Sense" of Glenn Beck (Campus Progress)
  • Iran v Honduras: the Times' Selective Promotion of Democracy (Extra!)
  • The Times' dismisses single-payer (ZNET)
  • The Left's Public Option Problem (ZNet)
  • See Past Healthcare Misinformation (Burlington Free Press)
  • Shared Complicity: the tragedy of the Pelosi/CIA affair (Various)
  • Why Vermont Marriage Equality Matters (The Nation)
  • The Absurdity of Modern Discourse: Gov Douglas and Gay Marriage (Green Mountain Daily)
  • Obama -- the first six months (Blast)
  • Vermont: Voices of the healthcare crisis (report, co-written with others)
  • The Howard Dean Rejuvenation Project (Blast Magazine)
  • Vermont, first state to be called for Obama (Blast Magazine)
  • Election 2008: The World is Watching (Blast Magazine)
  • The Left & the Obama Phenomenon (OpedNews))
  • Sabra and Chatila: 25 Years Later (Oped News)
  • On the Times, HRW and Israel (Oped News)
  • Worshipping Dick (Campus Progress)
  • The Democrats and Gay Marriage (Oped News)
  • Critiquing the "Post' (The Nation)
  • Kurt Vonnegut Dead at 84: He Tried (Blast Magazine)
  • Secular Confession (Campus Progress)
  • The Politics of Impeachment (Oped News)
  • The Other Reason to Oppose Hillary Clinton (Oped News)
  • Why Are We "Sick?" (Campus Progress)
  • The Daffodil Delusion (The Nation)
  • Hasta la vista, single-payer movement? (Oped News)
  • Bloggers for Deval Patrick (Boston Globe)
  • Democrats and Iraq: Then and Now (Boston Globe)
  • Why Ned Lamont -- and Democracy -- Won the Day (The Boston Globe)
  • Kerry, Feingold and Health Care Reform (Boston Globe)
  • Thinktanks on Campus (Boston Globe)
  • The Lamont/Lieberman Debate (The Boston Globe)
  • The Importance of Public Broadcasting (The Boston Globe)
  • In touch with Americans? (Boston Globe)
  • Lack of Joe-mentum? (Boston Globe)
  • Political Bias in the Media (Boston Globe)
  • The Debate on Haditha (Boston Globe)
  • Democratic Party Diversity (Boston Globe)
  • The Myth of the Liberal Media (Campus Progress)
  • Why Kent State is Important Today (The Boston Globe)
  • Book Review: War Made Easy (Spare Change News)

Other media appearances

  • Interview with Ring of Fire Radio, October 2011
  • Radio interview on the Rick Smith Show, October 2011
  • Video Coverage of Boston Freedom Rally for Boston Globe, September 2009
  • Featured in Emerson College's alumni magazine, Expression, Fall 2007
  • Interview on the Jim Pillsbury Show, May 2006

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