Alerts
SILENCE IN THE SERVICE OF POWER
Media Protection Of The Supreme International War Criminals “Then They Killed My Granny” In November last year, as many as 24 Iraqi civilians – among them 11 women and children – were killed by US →
Month: May 2006
Guardians of Power Reviews
Review In The Village
Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media By David Edwards and David Cromwell Pluto Press, 241 pp, €22.50 It is unusual to agree with everything one reads in their daily newspaper and there →
Cogitations
Challenging The Media From A Compassionate Perspective
By: Matthew Bain Media Lens is a UK media watch service which has just published a new book ‘Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media’. In this interview Media Lens discuss with computer →
Guardians of Power Reviews
Review In The Atlantic Affairs
Guardians of Power: Journalists as liberal dupes or corporate worse? By Adam Samuel Hamilton Smyth Posted: May 23, 2006 A journalist’s first obligation is to the truth; or so the old adage goes. Journalists are →
Alerts
RIDICULING CHAVEZ – THE MEDIA HIT THEIR STRIDE – PART 2
In Part 1 of this alert we showed how the mainstream media have been united in depicting Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez as an extreme, absurd and threatening figure. In essence, the public has been urged →
Alerts
RIDICULING CHAVEZ – THE MEDIA HIT THEIR STRIDE – PART 1
Controlling what we think is not solely about controlling what we know – it is also about controlling who we respect and who we find ridiculous. Thus we find that Western leaders are typically reported →
Guardians of Power Reviews
Review In The Hoot
Though it bares media failure and under-performance, it has hardly been reviewed in mainstream media after it was published in January. Guardians of Power: The myth of the Liberal Media by David Edwards and →
Alerts
NOTES FROM A DYING PLANET
The Media’s Aversion To Addressing The Juggernaut of Economic ‘Growth’ Last year we reported that Michael McCarthy, environment editor of the Independent, was “taken aback” at dramatic scientific warnings of “major new threats” in the →
Guardians of Power Reviews
Review In French News
The rise of the Netizens The death of Milosevic coincides with a book by David Edwards and David Cromwell who founded Media Lens, a website that monitors media accuracy. It is not necessary to →
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LINING UP THE NEXT VICTIMS
The ‘Independent’ Stokes Up Fear Of Left ‘Populism’ In South America The British media is moving up a gear in support of Washington and London’s agenda of demonising the next potential victims of western power, →