Month: September 2007

In response to our September 18 alert, ‘The Media Ignore Credible Poll Revealing 1.2 Million Violent Deaths In Iraq,’ BBC Newsnight presenter Gavin Esler sent one Media Lens reader the following response: “Sorry but this →

We Can’t Talk About Oil The media are not, as is commonly supposed, windows on the world; they are more like paintings or sketches of windows on the world – both the ‘window’ and the →

News media this week are devoting huge swathes of coverage to the report by General David Petraeus, the top US military commander in Iraq, on the impact of the so-called ‘surge’ of US troops. The →