Month: June 2002

On June 24, 2002, Media Lens published a Media Alert: ‘John Sweeney Of The Observer And The BBC on Mass Death In Iraq‘. Also on June 24, we received this reply from John Sweeney: “I →

On June 18, 2002, Media Lens published a Media Alert Update: The BBC’s ‘The Century of the Self’. In response, also on June 18, we received this reply from Adam Curtis, writer and producer of →

The fate of Iraq lies in the balance. US Republican Hawks are seeking to launch a further massive attack against the people of Iraq. It won’t happen if politicians sense sufficient public opposition – journalists →

The Soviet poet Yevgeney Yevtushenko once noted how, in totalitarian societies, “The truth is replaced by silence, and the silence is a lie.” (Quoted, Daniel Goleman, Vital Lies, Simple Truths – The Psychology of Self-Deception, →

On April 3, 2002, Media Lens published a Media Alert: The Unspoken Rule of Media Reporting: The BBC’s Century of the Self. Our suggested action included writing to the producer and writer of the series, →

Corporate Law, Capitalist Fundamentalism and the Media Prologue – When Lies Are Killing People, Liars Must Be Exposed As democracy and freedom continue to melt away beneath the withering heat of state-corporate power, it becomes →

The emergence of an independent East Timor on May 20 this year provided a classic example of how the British ‘free press’ act as a propaganda system covering up Western crimes. Many reports did mention →