Month: January 2004

The Refusal To Publish Letters Is Just One More Example “A giant oil company professes to take a ‘precautionary approach’ to global warming. A major agrochemical manufacturer trades in a pesticide so hazardous it has →

The Guardian’s Paul Brown Replies Again Following our recent update (January 20), we have received a further response from the Guardian’s environment correspondent, Paul Brown: “Dear Media Lens, Glad to know you have looked at →

The Guardian’s Paul Brown Replies On January 8, we published a Rapid Response Media Alert, ‘Climate Catastrophe – the Ultimate Media Betrayal’. This focussed on media coverage of “terrifying” new scientific findings on climate change →

By Former BBC Middle East Correspondent, Tim Llewellyn Why is the BBC so poor at covering Israel/Palestine (for the purposes of this chapter I am concentrating on the BBC’s domestic output – BBC World Service →

By Former BBC Middle East Correspondent, Tim Llewellyn Last year, we were very happy to contribute an article to a new book by Pluto Press: Tell Me Lies – Propaganda and Media Distortion in the →

Dotty Watchdogs In the last hours of a momentous year for the media, both the BBC and ITN reported that Dotty, an English bull terrier owned by Princess Anne, had been cleared by Buckingham Palace →

Today’s Guardian and Independent newspapers both report that over the next 50 years, global warming could drive a quarter of land animals and plants into extinction. According to a four-year research project by scientists from →

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 was one of history’s bloodiest single acts claiming 100,000 Japanese lives. Exposing men, women and children to one million degrees of heat and a supersonic blast →