Month: January 2006

The Great Media Silence on Causes and Solutions “One fundamental goal of any well-crafted indoctrination program is to direct attention elsewhere, away from effective power, its roots, and the disguises it assumes.” (Noam Chomsky, ‘Deterring →

Testing Iraq Body Count Earlier this month Media Lens searched the IBC database looking for incidents involving the mass killing of Iraqi civilians by ‘coalition’ forces between January-June 2005. We began by searching for incidents →

On the rare occasions when the issue of civilian casualties is discussed in the mainstream media three words are invariably mentioned: Iraq Body Count (IBC). IBC describes itself as a project which maintains “the world’s →

In Part 1 of this alert we reviewed Robert Fisk’s observation that “more and more people are trying to find a different and more accurate narrative of events in the Middle East. It is a →

Where James Lovelock Meets BP   Billions Will Die The Independent and the Independent on Sunday (IoS) pride themselves on their environmental coverage. No doubt their editors will indicate today’s dramatic front page as a →

Robert Fisk On The British Media – Part 1 In the 1960s, psychologist Lester Luborsky used a camera to track the eye movements of subjects asked to look at a set of pictures. Some of →

On October 20, 2005, we published a Media Alert, ‘Real Men Go To Tehran,’ We detailed media reactions after an anonymous British official had accused Iran of supplying Iraqi insurgents with sophisticated roadside bombs that →

Media Lens is happy to announce that our first book, Guardians Of Power – The Myth Of The Liberal Media, is now available:  John Pilger says: “Guardians of Power ought to be required reading in →