Month: June 2010

CRUSHING ECONOMICS, CHEERLEADING MEDIA AND A LOFTY DISMISSAL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES An essential role of corporate journalism is to shore up public confidence in an unjust, crisis-riven financial and economic system. Although plenty of →

As discussed in Part 1, media coverage of the non-violent Iranian capture of 15 British sailors (in Iranian waters) focused on the humiliating failure of the sailors to open fire in self-defence. Journalists took a →

The most potent propaganda relies on language loaded with hidden implications. In a recent speech, journalist Robert Fisk noted: “When we westerners find that ‘our’ enemies – al-Qaeda, for example, or the Taliban – have →