Exchange With the BBC’s Director of News “These are the stories that will continue to emerge from the rubble of Fallujah for years. No, for generations…” (Dahr Jamail, independent reporter in Iraq) Heavily Conditioned Sensitivity →
The Foetus And The Flag In the first three weeks of campaigning for the 2001 general election, the Communications Research Centre at Loughborough University found that there had been “little sign of real issues” in →
By David Edwards The response to Part 1 of this Cogitation was interesting. Positive comments were mixed with outrage that I should waste time on “twaddle“. A few people interpreted the piece as an attack →
By David Miller of Spinwatch Spinwatch investigation has revealed that journalists working for the Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC) have been commissioned to provide news reports to the BBC. The BBC has been using →
How Do You Shoot Babies? Facing execution for his role in the murder of more than 1 million people, many of them children, Auschwitz commandant, Rudolf Hoess, reflected on his life and works: “Today, I →
The Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland and Seumas Milne Respond We wrote to Jonathan Freedland about his article, “The war’s silver lining”, and asked him: “Are you not, here, celebrating the efficacy of state terrorism as a →
The Sting – You’re Next In a remarkable article in last week’s Guardian entitled, “The war’s silver lining”, Jonathan Freedland wrote: “Tony Blair is not gloating. He could – but he prefers to appear magnanimous →
By David Edwards Introduction A fair proportion of the South coast of England, where I live, was recently in uproar at the news that former Portsmouth football manager, Harry Redknapp, had joined arch-rival South coast →
“What goes against the grain of conditioning is experienced as not credible, or as a hostile act.” (John McMurtry, philosopher) Bizarre Conversations Climate crisis is not a future risk. It is today’s reality. As Myles →
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