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 →
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 →
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 →
On April 21, we published a Rapid Response Media Alert: ‘Demonising Iran – BBC Distorts Amnesty International Press Release,’. Yesterday, we received this response from Steve Herrmann, editor of the BBC News website: Dear David →
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 →
War Crimes And The Struggle For Truth An ancient Roman aphorism made a crucial point: “The senators are good men, but the senate is a beast.“ In the same way, no matter how deeply media →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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