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Guardians of Power Reviews

Review In Scotland On Sunday

GUARDIANS OF POWER David Edwards and David Cromwell Pluto Press, £14.99 Do you read the publishers’ names above this round-up? In this case it’s worth noticing Pluto Press, a crusading, left-leaning independent publisher, and commend

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Guardians of Power Reviews

Review In The Age

Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media a.. By Jeff Sparrow April 29, 2006 A book that details the hypocrisy of the liberal media is commendable. Vice begets virtue: The Guardian’s hypocrisy is

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Guardians of Power Reviews

Review In New Matilda

Who’s Watching the Media? By: Antony Loewenstein Media writer for the Washington Post, Howard Kurtz, recently argued that the Washington press corps was suffering its greatest crisis in living memory. Aside from uncritically accepting Bush

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DEMONISING IRAN

BBC Distorts Amnesty International Press Release In a recent speech at New York’s Columbia University, John Pilger commented: “We now know that the BBC and other British media were used by MI6, the secret intelligence

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IRAQ BODY COUNT – A SHAME BECOMING SHAMEFUL

John Pilger And A Leading Epidemiologist Challenge IBC Noam Chomsky once observed: “If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you’re doing something wrong.” (www.journalism.sfsu.edu/www/pubs/gater/spring95/apr27/chom.htm) One indication that the Iraq Body Count

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CARTOON TIME – CHANNEL 4 SMEARS CHAVEZ

On March 27, Channel 4 News included a report by Washington Correspondent Jonathan Rugman: ‘Hugo to go?’ (www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=2046) Rugman relentlessly smeared Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, in a piece described by John Pilger as “one of

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BBC WHITEWASH – HEAD OF NEWS RESPONDS

On March 21 we noted that the BBC’s Diplomatic Correspondent, Bridget Kendall, had said on the Six O’Clock News: “There’s still bitter disagreement over invading Iraq. Was it justified or a disastrous miscalculation?” (Kendall, BBC