Month: May 2007

On May 22, we published a Media Alert, ‘The Surge – Here To Help,’ analysing a May 14 BBC report from Iraq by Newsnight’s diplomatic editor Mark Urban. We had previously written to Urban on →

“The Guardian’s vision is to offer independent, agenda-setting content that positions us as the modern, progressive, exciting challenger to the status-quo.” (Guardian editor, Alan Rusbridger; http://www.adinfo-guardian.co.uk/ the-guardian/index.shtml) The Con Coughlin School Of Hard News Commenting →

The BBC’s Mark Urban And The Independent’s Adrian Hamilton On Iraq On the May 14 edition of Newsnight, the BBC’s Mark Urban reported from Iraq that the US troop “surge” was an attempt to “turn →

The BBC’s Justin Webb On ‘Anti-Americanism’   The Lexicon Of Totalitarianism In Part 1 of this alert, we analysed Justin Webb’s recent BBC Radio 4 series on “anti-Americanism“, ‘Death to America’. It is worth considering →

The BBC’s Justin Webb On ‘Anti-Americanism’ “The shining city upon a hill” was how John Winthrop, one of the early Pilgrims, described America, his new homeland. Winthrop was making reference to the Sermon on the →

Analytical Value Two days after a gunman shot dead 32 students and staff at an American college, Virginia Tech, on April 16, a series of car bombs killed more than 200 people in Iraq causing →