Killing With Impunity
Nine-Second Coverage For Dozens of Dead Iraqi Women and Children Last night's BBC Newsnight programme reported the deaths of 70 "Iraqi militants" in US air raids on the western Iraqi city of Ramadi....
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The Roman historian Tacitus observed: “Crime once exposed has no refuge but in audacity.” What better example than Tony Blair’s declaration at an October 7 press conference: "There is no justification...
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Early last century, industrial technology allowed business interests to produce mass media at a cost that outclassed the capacity of non-corporate media to compete. As a result, radical publishers were...
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In Part 1 we described how the notion of “professional” journalism was developed precisely to obscure the significance of the fact that corporate power had gained a monopoly over the mass media....
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Introduction On November 4, we published a Media Alert, 'Smearing Chomsky', detailing the Guardian' s October 31 interview with Noam Chomsky by Emma Brockes. The alert produced the biggest ever...
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Harold Pinter, John Le Carré And The Media Introduction - Factory Labels The most effective way to control people is to control their assumptions about the world. The task of propaganda is to apply...
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Nine-Second Coverage For Dozens of Dead Iraqi Women and Children Last night's BBC Newsnight programme reported the deaths of 70 "Iraqi militants" in US air raids on the western Iraqi city of Ramadi....
View ArticleReal Men Go To Tehran
The Roman historian Tacitus observed: “Crime once exposed has no refuge but in audacity.” What better example than Tony Blair’s declaration at an October 7 press conference: "There is no justification...
View ArticleThought Control And 'Professional' Journalism - Part 1
Early last century, industrial technology allowed business interests to produce mass media at a cost that outclassed the capacity of non-corporate media to compete. As a result, radical publishers were...
View ArticleThought Control And 'Professional' Journalism - Part 2
In Part 1 we described how the notion of “professional” journalism was developed precisely to obscure the significance of the fact that corporate power had gained a monopoly over the mass media....
View ArticleSMEARING CHOMSKY - THE GUARDIAN IN THE GUTTER
Introduction On October 31, the Guardian published an interview with Noam Chomsky by Emma Brockes, ‘The greatest intellectual?’ (The Guardian, October 31, 2005; http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/...
View ArticleSMEARING CHOMSKY - THE GUARDIAN BACKS DOWN
Introduction On November 4, we published a Media Alert, 'Smearing Chomsky', detailing the Guardian' s October 31 interview with Noam Chomsky by Emma Brockes. The alert produced the biggest ever...
View ArticleTHE TRAGIC BLINDNESS OF THE EMBEDDED BBC
White Phosphorus, Fallujah And Unreported Atrocities Helen Boaden, director of BBC News, said earlier this year: "We are committed to evidence-based journalism. We have not been able to establish that...
View ArticleBURNING THE PLANET FOR PROFIT
Corporate Lobbying, A Lapsed 'Ecowarrior' and Compromised Media After 4.6 billion years of planetary history, we may become the first species to monitor our own extinction. In impressive detail,...
View ArticleMEDIA ALERT: THE INSANE SOCIETY
Climate Change, Advertising, And The Independent In his classic book, The Sane Society, published in 1955, psychologist Erich Fromm proposed that, not just individuals, but entire societies "may be...
View ArticleBRILLIANT FOOLS
Harold Pinter, John Le Carré And The Media Introduction - Factory Labels The most effective way to control people is to control their assumptions about the world. The task of propaganda is to apply...
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