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Manufacturing Ignorance: Keeping The Public Away From Power

22nd October 2021

In their classic book on the news media, ‘Manufacturing Consent’, Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky presented a ‘propaganda model’ of how the major broadcasters and newspapers operate. Whereas the ‘mainstream’ media declare that their aim →

Gaslighting The Public: Serial Deceptions By The State-Corporate Media

22nd September 2021

During last week’s Tory Cabinet reshuffle, ITV political editor Robert Peston inadvertently summed up the primary function of political journalists: ‘I simply pass on’ His tweet was in reference to a ministerial source saying that →

A Remarkable Silence: Media Blackout After Key Witness Against Assange Admits Lying

1st July 2021

As we have pointed out since Media Lens began in 2001, a fundamental feature of corporate media is propaganda by omission. Over the past week, a stunning example has highlighted this core property once again. →

‘That Is Actually Bollocks’: 20 Propaganda Horrors From 20 Years of Media Lens – Part 2

18th June 2021

11. The BBC On The Saintly Motives For Waging War On Iraq And Libya In focusing on the grim future in April, US vice president, Kamala Harris, surely revealed far more than she intended about →

Is Julian Assange free yet?@AssangeFreeYet·

22h

Julian Assange is still not free in so-called "Western civilisation".

Declassified UK@declassifiedUK·

30 Nov

New -- Rewriting history: The UK government’s new plan

by @AnneCadwallader

The government wants to commission an ‘official history’ of the Troubles - while itself censoring numerous files showing British army complicity in the deaths of civilians

https://declassifieduk.org/rewriting-history-the-uk-governments-new-plan/

Declassified UK@declassifiedUK·

1 Dec

What relationship did the Abedis have with the UK government?

Could the security services have prevented the bombing?

Has UK support of foreign militia groups contributed to terror at home?

Help us answer these questions. #RealManchesterInquiry / https://bit.ly/2ZCYZqs

‘A Crime Against Humanity’: The ‘Greenwash Festival’ Of COP26

Manufacturing Ignorance: Keeping The Public Away From Power

Gaslighting The Public: Serial Deceptions By The State-Corporate Media

A Remarkable Silence: Media Blackout After Key Witness Against Assange Admits Lying

‘That Is Actually Bollocks’: 20 Propaganda Horrors From 20 Years of Media Lens – Part 2

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