In our reply to Piers Robinson, below, we try to show how ‘objective scholarship’, like ‘objective journalism’, all too often filters out what really matters. Moreover, as in journalism, the scholar’s obsession with objectivity tends →
Exchanges With Piers Robinson of The University Of Manchester What happened to academia? In 2008, Terry Eagleton, formerly Professor of English Literature at Manchester University, wrote: “By and large, academic institutions have shifted from being the →
FOLLOW-UP ALERT ON ISRAEL’S POLICY OF NEAR-STARVATION FOR GAZA On November 17, we sent out a media alert that highlighted the corporate media’s lack of interest in official documents revealing Israel’s deliberate policy of near-starvation →
We are happy to announce that, beginning September 20, David Cromwell took the big leap out of paid work into full-time co-editing of Media Lens, there to join David Edwards who has been working full-time →
Media Bury Documents Revealing Israel’s Deliberate Policy Of Near-Starvation For Gaza Israel has been forced to reveal what Palestinians and other observers on the ground have known for a long time: that the blockade of →
The following is an interview with David Edwards and David Cromwell editors of Media Lens and co-authors of the new book ‘Guardians of Power: The myth of the liberal media’. UKWatch: Your new book is →
Interview with Christos Xanthakis , media editor of “Eleftherotypia”, the biggest newspaper in Greece with a circulation of 180,000 and a readership of one million. The original article in Greek can be found here: http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.article&id=51918 →
HOW DO YOU SHOOT BABIES? Facing execution for his role in the murder of more than 1 million people, many of them children, Auschwitz commandant, Rudolf Hoess, reflected on his life and works: ‘Today, I →
In their seminal work ‘Manufacturing Consent – The Political Economy of the Mass Media’ (Pantheon, 1988), Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky set out their ‘propaganda model’ of the media. In a subsequent article written in →
The Mass Media – Neutral, Honest, Psychopathic Another helpful attitude is one of deep distrust. Since most of what we hear is either plainly untrue, or half true and half distorted, and since most of →
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