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THOUGHT CONTROL

The Chains of Seduction “If the mass will be free of chains of iron, it must accept chains of silver. If it will not love, honour and obey, it must not expect to escape seduction.”

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BEATING UP THE CHEERLEADER

Government Attacks On The BBC Reflect Government Totalitarianism, Not BBC Radicalism Absent Furores It is clear that the British government’s attacks on the BBC are a deliberate attempt to distract attention from a) the dramatic

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Debunking Buncombe

The Independent’s Washington Correspondent Responds On June 25 and June 27 we published a two-part Media Alert: ‘Biting The Hand That Feeds – Parts 1 and 2 (see Media Alerts, www.Media Lens.org) In response to

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Manufactured Controversies

The BBC’s John Sweeney On “The Pilger-Baathist Line” The ‘Nut’ Theory Of Dissident Journalism Because dissident arguments are almost never seen in the mainstream media, they often strike the reader as surprising and even shocking.