Month: September 2006

Exchanges With ITN’s Tom Bradby And The BBC’s Nick Robinson   A Deep-Seated Longing Odd things happen when corporate journalists, selected for obedience and conformity, are exposed to powerful leaders speaking at grand meetings. Consider →

Manic Nirvana – Business Gets A Clear Run On the eve of the January 2005 elections in Iraq, Scott Peterson and Dan Murphy reported in the Christian Science Monitor: “the one thing every Iraqi agrees →

The Australian social scientist Alex Carey summed up the evolution of political power in the last century as follows: “The twentieth century has been characterised by three developments of great political importance: the growth of →

Human Rights, Media Silence And The Lancet Kidnapping Aristide In a series of alerts in 2004 we examined media coverage of events surrounding the military coup that forced Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide into exile on →

Climate Change, BP Greenwash And The Press On May 25, one of us spent several minutes laughing on the phone with a friend of ours, an environmental journalist. We were looking at the homepage of →