Month: September 2018

Note From The Editors This is a slightly amended version of the foreword to the new Media Lens book, ‘Propaganda Blitz – How The Corporate Media Distort Reality’, published today by Pluto Press. Warm thanks →

When we started Media Lens in 2001, our guiding aspiration was that independent, web-based activism would have a profoundly positive impact on public discourse. Hard to believe now, but we nurtured hopes that the greater →

Last week, Peter Brookes tweeted his latest cartoon for The Times, commenting: ‘#Novichok not the only poison being spread around Britain. #LabourAntisemitism #Corbyn.’ Referencing allegations that two Russian agents had been responsible for the poisoning →

The US political commentator Michael Parenti once observed that: ‘Bias in favor of the orthodox is frequently mistaken for “objectivity”. Departures from this ideological orthodoxy are themselves dismissed as ideological.’ Once you understand the truth →