31 March 2010 Journalism’s Servility to Power By Tapani Lausti As the latest NATO “surge” in Afghanistan progresses with the inevitable “regrettable” civilian casualties, the BBC is there following uncritically the military operation. No one critical →
In November 2008, the “historic” importance of Barack Obama’s presidential victory was a relentless theme across the media spectrum. Even the pretence of a mainstream commitment to balanced reporting vanished from sight in deference to →
When a Thai kibbutz worker was killed in Israel by a rocket launched from Gaza last week, BBC News online gave the incident headline coverage flagged up on its home page. (BBC news online, ‘Rocket →
On January 11, 2010, we sent out a media alert titled, ‘Were Afghan children executed by US-led forces? And why aren’t the media interested?’ The alert concerned credible reports that American-led troops had dragged Afghan →
By: David Edwards What lies at the heart of man? Anything? Nothing? Nothing much? Many of us believe that the human heart is a wasteland, a kind of abyss into which we might fall. In →
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