Month: May 2005

How Anti-War Dissidents Are Singled Out For Attack Just over one year ago, British journalists and politicians were fulminating over photographs published in the Daily Mirror that appeared to show Iraqi prisoners being abused by →

BBC News Director Helen Boaden Responds “Professional journalism relies heavily on official sources. Reporters have to talk to the PM’s official spokesperson, the White House press secretary, the business association, the army general. What those →

The BBC Has Failed To Respond To Doubts About Its Claims On US Atrocities In Iraq “The truth is replaced by silence, and the silence is a lie.” (Yevgeney Yevtushenko) Last week, the editors of →

“The ‘societal purpose’ of the media is to inculcate and defend the economic, social and political agenda of privileged groups that dominate the domestic society and the state.” (Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky – Manufacturing →

The crucial, deceptive importance of the idea that journalists can and should report ‘objectively’ was made all too clear last week. As discussed in Part 1 of this Media Alert, on April 28, the press →

Marr Serves Up A Liberal Herring The BBC’s political editor, Andrew Marr, said last week of the publishing of the Attorney General’s March 7, 2003 advice on the legality of war: “For two years people →

The New Statesman And The Guardian On Voting Labour Writing in the New Statesman last month, John Pilger made the point that matters: “By voting for Blair, you will walk over the corpses of at →