Month: October 2003

Why do activists so often focus on hard facts, reams of figures and dry arguments, while neglecting to deal with the intensely human issues of motivation, loneliness, burnout, selfishness and suffering? Why do we so →

In Part 1 of this Media Alert we published an exchange with Guardian columnist George Monbiot. On October 14 we received the following response from Monbiot: Dear David and David, thank you for your letter. →

In the first two weeks of December 2002, Media Lens published a total of three alerts on exchanges with Guardian columnist George Monbiot (‘George Monbiot Responds on Iraq and “Just War”‘, December 2, 2002; ‘George →

Senior Source at The Independent on Iraq, WMD and Editorials In Part 1 of this alert (20 October 2003), we presented part of an email exchange with a leader writer and senior journalist at the →

A Senior Source at The Independent on Iraq, WMD and Editorials We recently canvassed the views of a senior journalist at the Independent about that paper’s response to UK government claims on Iraq and its →

Postbag Curios And Surprising Silences We receive many interesting, even amazing, responses to our work from the mainstream media. Journalist John Sweeney recently published a letter in the New Statesman in response to one of →

Advertising, Core Truths, And The Great Electronic Tranquilliser “The fateful slumber floats and flowsAbout the tangle of the rose;But lo! the fated hand and heartTo rend the slumberous curse apart!”(William Morris, For The Briar Rose) →