Month: May 2002

One of the secrets of media manipulation is to report the horror and strife of the world as though Western power, interests and machinations did not exist. Vast poverty, injustice and chaos in the Third →

‘If the year past is anything to go by, there will be many more than two million deaths from climate change-related disasters worldwide in the next ten years, and the damages to property will be →

Mad as he was, Machiavelli certainly understood the basic requirements of an effective propaganda system: “It is not essential, then, that a Prince should have all the good qualities which I have enumerated above, but →

“I think newsmen are inclined to side with humanity rather than with authority and institutions.” (Quoted Schechter, The More You Watch, The Less You Know, Seven Stories Press, 1997, p.36) Or so U.S. TV anchorman, →