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Month: January 2011

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Newspeak Reviews

Review by Scientists for Global Responsibility

30th January 2011

Newspeak in the 21st century. By Media Lens authors David Edwards and David Cromwell We re now nine years into our ‘War on Terror’. Confidence in entire categories of establishment figures is approaching meltdown, (politicians, →

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The Empty Press Room – How Corporate Journalism Happily Lost Interest in Climate Change

26th January 2011

  In the media’s coverage of climate change, are we really still stuck on square one of some ghastly board game? Global warming was recognised as a hugely serious problem as far back as 1988 →

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Collateral Damage – WikiLeaks In The Crosshairs

20th January 2011

The horrific killing of six people in Arizona, and the wounding of a dozen more, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, generated a wave of discussion on the impact of violent political rhetoric. A leading article in →

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Guest Media Alert – Tilting Towards Israel

4th January 2011

Journalist Jonathan Cook Reveals The Bias In ‘Balance’ On Israel-Palestine Towards the end of last year, we sent out two media alerts – Put The Palestinians On A Diet and Too Toxic To Handle? – about the →

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A Book Review by Clyde Sanger Carleton University, Canada

4th January 2011

Newspeak in the 21st Century By David Edwards and David CromwellLondon, UK: Pluto Press, 2009. 304 pp.ISBN: 9780745328935. This book is a hatchet job. Granted, it is detailed and precise and no doubt accurate, and →

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