Generic Invader Nonsense (GIN) — Obama on Iraq
David Edwards parses Obama's words on Iraq, and the slavish media reaction.
View ArticleThe left-wing media fallacy
It is a mistake to imagine that media corporations are impervious to all complaints and criticism. In fact, senior editors and managers are only too happy to accept that their journalists tend to be...
View ArticleHired Hands: Obama, Gaza, and MPs expenses
We do not live in a totalitarian society - the public potentially has enormous power to interfere. The goal, then, is to persuade the public that corporate-sponsored political choice is meaningful,...
View ArticleHired Hands — Part 2
George Monbiot got it right: mainstream journalists, quite simply, are “hired hands defending a corporate or institutional position”.
View ArticleIran: The War Dance
What level of social insanity is it that persuades people to imagine that a single individual has the power to undo what centuries of entrenched, organised and determined vested interests (that have...
View ArticleMedia distortions and “real” climate change scandals
“The gap between public perception and scientific reality is now enormous. While some of the public is just becoming aware of the existence of global warming, the relevant scientists - those who know...
View ArticleProjectile Dysfunction – Iron Dome, Israel, Trident, And The Media
Even prior to the December 27, 2008 Operation Cast Lead offensive - when Israel attacked Gaza with hundreds of bombing raids and drone attacks, and thousands of artillery and tank shells - 14 Israelis...
View ArticleBrothers-In-Arms: capitalism and corporate journalism
An essential role of corporate journalism is to shore up public confidence in an unjust, crisis-riven financial and economic system. Although plenty of gloom and doom is permitted, especially in the...
View ArticleGen McChrystal: Death Squad poster boy
“It is a bitter irony of source journalism that the most esteemed journalists are precisely the most servile. For it is by making themselves useful to the powerful that they gain access to the ‘best’...
View ArticleTony Blair: Greasing his way through the Middle East with the Indy
More than six weeks after our initial challenge to the Independent's Donald Macintyre, we are still waiting for a response.
View Article“Bogus parallels”: Donald Macintyre responds to Medialens
Does Macintyre really believe that our readers respond robotically to journalists without judging the arguments for themselves? Is it really lamentable for members of the public to take action in...
View ArticleThe media’s smearing of Wikileaks
“Journalists don't like WikiLeaks”, Hugo Rifkind notes in The Times, but “the people who comment online under articles do... Maybe you've noticed, and been wondering why. I certainly have.”
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