Month: September 2003

Long years of habit have persuaded many of us to casually hand over our money to large media corporations portraying themselves as truly ‘independent’ ‘guardians’ of people and democracy. In reality they are all firmly →

A Tragicomedy Of Media Manners Primary Colours Andrew Gilligan, it is reported, is on his way out of Radio 4’s Today programme. The BBC’s director of news, Richard Sambrook, told the Hutton inquiry last week →

Selfishness, Happiness And Benefiting Others Magic Keys With the world awash with poverty, injustice, environmental crises, imposed confusion and toxic propaganda, we at Media Lens nevertheless regularly receive emails from people asking: “What should I →

The BBC, Self-Glorification And Disaster The Spokesman’s Spokesman What is news? And who makes the news? Perhaps BBC director of news Richard Sambrook can help shed some light. Sambrook recently replied to a Media Lens →

On ITN’s Lunchtime News, political editor Nick Robinson described how “hundreds of [British] servicemen are risking their lives to bring peace and security to the streets of Iraq”. (ITN, September 8, 2003) The first part →

The BBC, The Hawks And Nuclear War Rule A: Don’t.Rule A.1: Rule A does not exist.Rule A.2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A.1, or A.2.(R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience) →