Month: November 2004

“There is not a single surgeon in Falluja. We had one ambulance hit by US fire and a doctor wounded. There are scores of injured civilians in their homes whom we can’t move. A 13-year-old →

On November 8 and 11 we published two Media Alerts: ‘Legitimising Mass Slaughter in Fallujah,’ in which we commented on the bias and inhumanity of BBC and ITV News reporting on Fallujah. These alerts generated →

Manufacturing The Myth Of ‘America’ American elites have long sought to manufacture and promote a shared myth of ‘America’ based on “symbols by which Americans defined their dream and pictured social reality.” (Alex Carey, Taking →

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the public alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” (H.L. Mencken, →

“We’ll unleash the dogs of hell, we’ll unleash ’em… They don’t even know what’s coming – hell is coming. If there are civilians in there, they’re in the wrong place at the wrong time.” (Sergeant →

Johann Hari Responds On October 29, we sent out Part 1 of this Media Alert. We noted how Independent columnist Johann Hari had declared that his support for war in Iraq was qualified by an →

Introduction – Pacifying The Population In 1984, Edward Herman and Frank Brodhead described how “demonstration elections” are “organised and staged by a foreign power primarily to pacify a restive home population, reassuring it that ongoing →

By way of a splendid coincidence, Media Lens received this delayed response from the BBC on November 3: “I am writing in response to your email to Caroline Hawley dated 13/10. Apologies for the delay →