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Month: June 2010

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BROTHERS-IN-ARMS: CAPITALISM AND CORPORATE JOURNALISM

16th 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 →

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HEADSHOT – PROPAGANDA, STATE RELIGION AND THE ATTACK ON THE GAZA PEACE FLOTILLA – Part 2

11th June 2010

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 →

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HEADSHOT – PROPAGANDA, STATE RELIGION AND THE ATTACK ON THE GAZA PEACE FLOTILLA

9th June 2010

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 →

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