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Rafael Y. Herman

The exhibition attracted the attention of the public and media, and above all, of the Milan's assessor of culture, Vittorio Sgarbi, that wrote: "...His images are mirror of Creation, beyond which there is no more to say, revelation that only conceives the contemplative dimension, mixing spirit, mystery and material. Like this Herman wins the darkness."

Recalling the Genesis Creation story, this photography research project, of Israeli desert Negev trees, marked for the first time in photography history, a nocturnes photos that looks like taken in day light, using just the "moon-light", with no electronic or digital manipulation.


Cambodian genocide denial

On June 6, 1977, he and his collaborator, Edward S. Herman, published a review of Barron and Paul's, Ponchaud's, and Porter's books in The Nation.

Doublespeak

Edward S. Herman, political economist and media analyst, has highlighted some examples of doublespeak and doublethink in modern society.

Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky note in their book that Orwellian Doublespeak is an important component of the manipulation of the English language in American media, through a process called ‘dichotomization’; a component of media propaganda involving ‘deeply embedded double standards in the reporting of news’.

Edward Herman

Edward S. Herman (born 1925), American economist and media analyst

Edward S. Herman

Herman and Peterson wrote that the Western establishment has "swallowed a propaganda line on Rwanda that turned perpetrator and victim upside-down....the great majority of deaths were Hutu, with some estimates as high as two million".

Herman and Chomsky challenged the veracity of media accounts of war crimes and repression by the Vietnamese communists, stating that "the basic sources for the larger estimates of killings in the North Vietnamese land reform were persons affiliated with the CIA or the Saigon Propaganda Ministry" and "the NLF-DRV 'bloodbath' at Hue in South Vietnam was constructed on flimsy evidence indeed".

Journalistic objectivity

Media critics such as Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky (1988) have described a propaganda model that they use to show how in practice such a notion of objectivity ends up heavily favoring the viewpoint of government and powerful corporations.

KBAD

During the latter part of the decade the newsroom was led by news director Bill Buckmaster (now a talk show host at KWFM in Tucson) and included reporters Jackie Glass (now a District Court Judge in Las Vegas) and Steven L. Herman, currently a Voice of America correspondent in Asia.

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988), by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, is an analysis of the news media, arguing that the mass media of the United States "are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function by reliance on market forces, internalized assumptions, and self-censorship, and without overt coercion".

Media imperialism

Significant writers and thinkers in this area include Ben Bagdikian, Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman, Armand Mattelart and Robert McChesney.

Michael E. Herman

Michael E. Herman (born 1941 in New York City) was president of the Kansas City Royals from 1992 to 2000.

Michael Herman

Michael E. Herman (born 1943), president of the Kansas City Royals, 1992–2000

Rise of Rome

Such views would be echoed in the late 20th century by Edward S. Herman who emphasized the impossibility of ruling without support of the media and professions who were generally responsible for maintaining ethical codes and drawing attention to transgressions of the codes.

Social reality

Many examples from politics and theology, e.g. the claim that the Roman Emperor was in fact a "god", demonstrate that this principle was known by effective propagandists from early times, and continues to be applied to this day, e.g. the propaganda model of Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman, which supports the 'big lie' thesis with more specifics.

St. Herman's Blue Hole National Park

The park has over 200 species of birds, including unusual tropical species such as the Slaty Antwren, Piratic Flycatcher and Red-legged Honeycreeper.

Steve Herman

Steven L. Herman, South Asia bureau chief for the Voice of America

United States and state terrorism

Notable works include Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman's The political economy of human rights (1979), Herman's The real terror network (1985), Alexander L. George' Western state terrorism (1991), Frederick Gareau's State terrorism and the United States (2004) and Doug Stokes' America's other war (2005).

Windsor Star

It began as the weekly Windsor Record in 1888, changing its name to the Border Cities Star in 1918 when it was bought by W. F. Herman, to the Windsor Daily Star in 1935 following the amalgamation of several small communities, and finally to the Windsor Star in 1959.


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