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Month: April 2002

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Ignorance is Strength – The Mainstream Media and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

18th April 2002

In his book, The More You Watch, The Less You Know, Mediachannel’s Danny Schechter reports a study by the University of Massachusetts, which found that people who relied most on television news coverage knew +least+ →

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The BBC, The Sunday Telegraph and Cancer in Iraq

12th April 2002

Regular Media Lens readers will know that we have generally focused on the performance of the ‘liberal’ media. The reason for this is that we assume that it is obvious that the ‘right wing’ media →

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The Unspoken Rule of Media Reporting: The BBC’s The Century of the Self

3rd April 2002

Focusing heavily on the machinations of public relations guru Edward Bernays, the BBC2 series, The Century of the Self, began its second programme with this account of post-war U.S. history: “Politicians and planners came to →

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