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Month: August 2012

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‘The Man Who Knew Everyone’ – Gore Vidal Through The Eyes Of The One Per Cent Press

20th August 2012

  By: David Edwards   Gore Vidal took great delight in demolishing the fragile confections of ‘mainstream’ politics. While corporate journalists typically portray US Presidents as benign demigods, Vidal described George W. Bush as ‘the →

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How an activist fathered a media critic

7th August 2012

 In August 2012, Mat Ward interviewed Media Lens co-editor David Cromwell about his new book, ‘Why Are We The Good Guys?’ for the Australia-based Green Left Weekly. Mat’s article appeared here. This is the full →

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