Media Lens Alert: When order and symmetry manifest in the natural world in the absence of conscious design, we feel a sense of wonder – the structural perfection of a snowflake, for example, is remarkable precisely →
It is ironic that when politicians hail the urgent need to defend our democratic traditions, their words are generally communicated by giant media corporations, which are essentially totalitarian structures of power. There is not even →
News broadcasts and column inches are rapidly saturating with the rhetoric of war. The fate of the Iraqi people hangs in the balance. Iraq has now backed down in the face of overwhelming US/UK threats →
Two possible options were immediately obvious in the aftermath of the appalling atrocities of one year ago yesterday: we could seek to identify and address the true causes of the catastrophe in the real and →
This is a companion piece to yesterday’s Media Alert: ‘How to Legitimise War – Iraq and the British Media’. Media Lens recently challenged Robert Moore, ITN’s Washington Correspondent, on his support for the claim that →
In our society, choices decrease to the extent that they matter. When it comes to chocolate bars, the options are impressive – supermarket shelves are filled with them. When it comes to political parties, foreign →
A rule of thumb for the mainstream media is that the reporting of ideas that are damaging to powerful interests will tend to begin and end at ‘square one’ – investigation and discussion rarely proceed →
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