Month: November 2005

White Phosphorus, Fallujah And Unreported Atrocities Helen Boaden, director of BBC News, said earlier this year: “We are committed to evidence-based journalism. We have not been able to establish that the US used banned chemical →

Introduction On November 4, we published a Media Alert, ‘Smearing Chomsky‘, detailing the Guardian’ s October 31 interview with Noam Chomsky by Emma Brockes. The alert produced the biggest ever response from Media Lens readers →

Introduction On October 31, the Guardian published an interview with Noam Chomsky by Emma Brockes, ‘The greatest intellectual?’ (The Guardian, October 31, 2005; http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/ politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,6000,1605276,00.html) The article was ostensibly in response to the fact that →

In Part 1 we described how the notion of “professional” journalism was developed precisely to obscure the significance of the fact that corporate power had gained a monopoly over the mass media. “Professional” journalism accepts →