Month: January 2003

We have shown in previous Media Alerts how facts, ideas and voices in our culture are filtered by a propaganda system promoting the goals of powerful interests. This is not achieved through any kind of →

Goebbels – A Beginner’s Guide “If war is to be averted, then Saddam Hussein and his scientists have to do much more to satisfy the United Nations.” (ITN, 11:00 News, January 24, 2003) So argues →

Statement by Denis J. Halliday — January 26, 2003 Former Assistant Secretary General of the United NationsFormer head of U.N. oil-for-food program The obscene haste of Bush to go to war, beside his friend Tony →

“Among all the things I’m going to tell you today about being a journalist, all you have to remember is two words: governments lie.” (US journalist I.F. Stone to journalism students) Machiavellian Passion Tony Blair →

On January 7, 2003, Media Lens published a Media Alert: ‘Moral Dark Age? Millions Of Suffering Iraqis: A “Blip” In The Global Economy?’. This was in response to a New Year comment piece in The →

Introduction – Wholesale Soul Sale We are witnessing a dramatic and important collision between public opinion and unaccountable political decision-making. A Channel 4 poll (January 16, 2003) shows that fully 81% of the UK population →

In September the press eagerly covered the story of how Michael Green, chairman of Carlton, had joined “a barrage of criticism” by attacking a documentary produced by his own company. The film in question was →

“O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown →

With the convenient discovery of a deadly poison in Wood Green, London, Tony Blair has again made explicit reference to the “related” threats of international terrorism and Iraq – threats that will sooner or later, →

A notable feature of the liberal press is the columnist who speaks loftily of ‘geopolitics’, prosecuting war on ‘successful military terms’, and of ‘global threats’ from ‘rogue states’, while also espousing humane values including an →