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Month: May 2003

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Playground Journalism – David Aaronovitch Of The Guardian Smears Media Lens

29th May 2003

“You know, vilification is a wonderful technique. There’s no way of responding to it. If somebody calls you an anti-Semite, what can you say? I’m not an anti-Semite? Or, you know, somebody says you’re a →

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Concealing Catastrophe – The BBC And ITN Respond On Iraq

22nd May 2003

In a recent Media Alert, ‘Grit Your Teeth – Basic Surgery In “Liberated” Iraq’ (May 16, 2003), Media Lens invited readers to ask the BBC and ITN why they had devoted so little coverage to →

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As Good As It Gets – The Independent On Sunday And Orwell’s Memory Hole

21st May 2003

The media system is not monolithic – dissident material does appear, comparatively honest documentaries are seen. The point is that they are few and far between, and effectively swamped by the vast mass of deceptive →

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Grit Your Teeth – Surgery In ‘Liberated’ Iraq

16th May 2003

Watching Closely? In a recent Media Alert, ‘Killings At Falluja – The BBC Tells One Side Of The Story’ (April 29, 2003), we reported how the BBC’s lunchtime news had devoted 3 minutes and 10 →

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Demolishing Compassion – Greed, Profit, And Animals As ‘Converting Machines’

14th May 2003

You would not be mistaken if you have noticed that there is a certain harshness about mainstream corporate journalists, their reporting and their responses to readers. Anyone who has worked for large corporations, as we →

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Chaining The Watchdog, Part 3 – Mainstream Credibility Is Dead – Long Live The ‘Netizens’!

7th May 2003

“In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim high.” (Thoreau) Friendly Fascism In the first two parts of this 3-part series, we showed how systemic media bias →

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Chaining The Watchdog, Part 2

3rd May 2003

“A reporter who first comes up with an investigative story idea, writes it up and submits it to the editor and is told the story is not going to run. He wonders why, but the →

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