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Month: August 2002

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Iraq: Open Letter to United Nations Secretary General

24th August 2002

The following letter was initiated by Edward S. Herman, Anthony Arnove, Rahul Mahajan and David Peterson – we at Media Lens have also signed the letter. Please feel free to circulate the letter widely. Many →

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Update: The BBC’s Newsnight Fails on Iraq

22nd August 2002

Media Lens recently wrote to Jeremy Vine, the BBC’s Newsnight presenter, to express our shock and dismay at his failure to challenge the stream of outrageous and false claims made by Ken Adelman of the →

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Force-Feeding The Dream – Consumer Advertising and Traditional Culture

20th August 2002

A current Peugeot advert depicts an Indian driver in a dusty, impoverished village smashing his wreck of a car – what appears to be an old Morris Oxford – forwards and backwards into walls. The →

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The Scotsman on Iraq – “I Was Guilty of Imbalance”

15th August 2002

Guest Media Lens Alert:  From the day we are born we are trained to be in awe of the rich and famous and powerful – they are the ‘stars’ and ‘starlets’, the ‘screen goddesses’ and →

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Update: Liberal Herrings Part 2 – The Guardian’s John Vidal Responds on Climate Coverage

8th August 2002

In Part 1 of this alert (August 6), we replied to Guardian environment editor John Vidal’s response to our media alert of 4 July, 2002: On August 8, we received this reply from Vidal: gissa →

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Update: Liberal Herrings Part 1 – The Guardian’s John Vidal Responds on Climate Coverage

6th August 2002

On July 4, 2002, Media Lens issued a media alert update titled ‘Climate of Silence‘: We suggested that Media Lens readers contact Michael McCarthy and John Vidal – the environment editors of The Independent and →

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