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2023

March 27 ‘The Dwindling Band Of Iraq Obsessives’ – Endless War And Media Complicity
February 23 ‘That Paper Is Dead’ – The Power Of Propaganda
February 17 ‘A Beautiful Outpouring Of Rage’ – The Observer, The Great Peace March And Nord Stream
January 26 ‘End Stage Capitalism’: Collapsing Britain And The Climate Crisis
January 19 Harry The ‘Traitor’ And Lynch ‘The Grinch’ – The Corporate Media’s Automatic Smear Machine

2022

December 14 ‘Nearly Every War Has Been The Result Of Media Lies’: Julian Assange, State-Corporate Media And Ukraine
November 23 The Medium – An Appeal For Support
November 14 ‘On The Highway To Climate Hell’ – The Climate Crisis, Activism And Broken Politics
October 28 Wicked Leaks – Part 2: How The Media Quarantined Evidence On BP And Cancer In Iraq
October 26 Wicked Leaks – Part 1: How The Media Quarantined Evidence On Nord Stream Sabotage
October 5 Mass Media Omertà: Burying Al Jazeera’s ‘The Labour Files’
September 30 Over The Rainbow – Disneyfied News And The ‘Unprovoked’ Invasion Of Ukraine
September 14 Imposed Insanity – Royalty, Propaganda And The Coming Catastrophe
July 11 The Great Merger – The Rise Of Oligarchical Politics
July 6 Why There Is No Public Sense Of A Climate Crisis
June 22 Don’t Extradite Assange
June 7 ‘Damned Fun’ – ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ And The Military-Entertainment Complex
May 20 ‘There Is No Way To Fool Physics’: Climate Breakdown And State-Corporate Madness
May 5 The Price Of ‘Selective Inattention’ – Iraq, Ukraine, Libya, And The Climate Apocalypse
March 25 Burying ‘An Atlas Of Human Suffering’: Climate Breakdown And The Tory Chancellor
March 4 Doubling Down On Double Standards – The Ukraine Propaganda Blitz
January 19 Save The BBC? In Whose Interests?
January 12 The Media Lens Book Of Obituaries – Deleting Tutu’s Criticism Of Israel

2021

December 8 A Christmas Tale: The Downing Street Party, Laughter And Bigger State Crimes
November 8 ‘A Crime Against Humanity’: The ‘Greenwash Festival’ Of COP26
October 22 Manufacturing Ignorance: Keeping The Public Away From Power
September 22 Gaslighting The Public: Serial Deceptions By The State-Corporate Media
July 1 A Remarkable Silence: Media Blackout After Key Witness Against Assange Admits Lying
June 18 ‘That Is Actually Bollocks’: 20 Propaganda Horrors From 20 Years of Media Lens – Part 2
June 16 ‘That Is Actually Bollocks’: 20 Propaganda Horrors From 20 Years of Media Lens – Part 1
June 2 Two Centuries Of ‘The Imperialist, Warmongering, Hate-Filled Guardian’
May 25 ‘The Savage Punishment Of Gaza’: Israel’s Latest Assault On Palestine’s Open Prison
May 11 Feeling The Truth – 20 Years Of Media Lens: An Appeal For Support
April 19 Shocking Omissions: ‘Capitalism’s Conscience – 200 Years Of The Guardian’ – John Pilger and Jonathan Cook Respond
March 29 Propaganda By Omission: Libya, Syria, Venezuela And The UK
March 16 The Impossible Peter Oborne
February 23 20 Years Of Media Lens: A Selection Of Remarkable Replies From Journalists
February 10 ‘Our Indifference To Ourselves’ – Beyond The ‘Virtue’ Of Self-Sacrifice – Part 1
January 20 ‘A Ghastly Future’? Israeli Apartheid, Biden, Starmer, Assange And Mass Extinction

2020

December 4 Stuck In A Lift With John Pilger – ‘News And How To Use It’ by Alan Rusbridger
November 17 The Dead And Those About To Die – Climate Protests And The Corporate Media
November 10 Robert Fisk – Death Of A ‘Controversial’ Journalist
October 23 Guardian-Friendly Omissions – ‘This Land’ By Owen Jones
October 7 ‘None Of It Reported’: How Corporate Media Buried The Assange Trial
September 23 The ‘War Against Us’ – The Battle of Britain And Steve Richards On ‘The Prime Ministers’
September 9 ‘Absolute And Arbitrary Power’: Killing Extinction Rebellion And Julian Assange
August 6 ‘A Perpetual Motion Machine Of Killing’:
Alleged Cover-Up Of Civilians Murdered By UK Special Forces In Iraq And Afghanistan
July 30 Racism, Sexism, Classism – The Necessary Incoherence Of ‘Mainstream’ Ethical Debate
July 3 Conspiracy Theories Malign And Benign – Face Masks And Israeli Training Of US Police
June 23 ‘Six Months To Avert Climate Crisis’:
Climate Breakdown And The Corporate Media
May 18 An Illusion Of Protection: The Pandemic, The ‘Criminal’ Government And Public Distrust of The Media
April 16 ‘The People Have Spoken. Bastards’: Leaked Labour Report Shows Party’s Own Senior Staff Acted To Keep Corbyn Out Of Power
March 31 ‘Can I Keep You Safe? Your Future Is Uncertain’: Climate And The Fate Of Humanity
March 20 ‘For Unknown Reasons They Waited. And Watched’ – Lancet Editor Exposes Devastating Government Failure On Coronavirus
February 26 With Head Lowered And Eyes Averted – Israeli Racism And The ‘Honourable’ Robert Peston
February 19 ‘And Then – Nothing. Silence’:
The Deadly Facade Of ‘Democracy’
February 13 ‘Burned At The Stake’ – The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Demolishes The Fake Claims Targeting Julian Assange

2019

December 19 The Arrogance Of BBC News
December 3 Reopening Auschwitz – The Conspiracy To Stop Corbyn
November 6 Unfree Media – State Stenography And Shameful Silence
October 23 ‘This Is Oil Country!’ – Climate Protests And The Left
September 30 ‘How Dare You!’ The Climate Crisis And The Public Demand For Real Action
September 17 Stockholm Syndrome – Julian Assange And The Limits Of Guardian Dissent
July 22 The Campaign To Stop Corbyn – Smears, Racism And Censorship
July 4 Suspending Chris Williamson – The Fury And The Fakery
June 20 The Shaving Kit – Manufacturing The Julian Assange Witch-Hunt
June 14 Buried In Broad Daylight – The ‘Free Press’ And The Leaked OPCW Report On Douma
June 11 ‘Mirthless Laugh’ – The Persecution And Torture Of Julian Assange
May 23 Life Or Death – Corporate Media Or Honest Media?
May 9 The London Climate Protests – Raising The Alarm
April 30 40,000 Dead Venezuelans Under US Sanctions: Corporate Media Turn A Blind Eye
April 18 Assange Arrest – Part 2: ‘A Definite Creep, A Probable Rapist’
April 16 Assange Arrest – Part 1: ‘So Now He’s Our Property’
April 5 Fake News Tsunami – Trump’s ‘Collusion’ And Corbyn As ‘Dangerous Hero’
March 19 The Destruction of Freedom: Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange And The Corporate Media
March 6 The Fake News Nazi – Corbyn, Williamson And The Anti-Semitism Scandal
February 27 ‘We Don’t Do Propaganda’
February 12 Dump The Guardian
February 7 Venezuela Blitz – Part 2: Press Freedom, Sanctions And Oil
February 5 Venezuela Blitz – Part 1: Tyrants Don’t Have Free Elections
January 22 Democracy Or Extinction
January 16 Remembrance – The Dehumanised Human

2018

December 12 Veneration Of Power Leading To Climate Catastrophe
December 6 Limits Of Dissent – Glenn Greenwald And The Guardian
November 14 The Filter Bubble – Owen Jones And Con Coughlin
November 8 How To Be A Reliable ‘Mainstream’ Journalist
October 17 Caught In The Cross Hairs – Media Lens And The Mystery Of The Wikipedia Editor
October 3 Blanket Silence: Corporate Media Ignore New Report Exposing Distorted And Misleading Coverage of Corbyn
September 20 Guest Media Alert by John Pilger: ‘Hold the front page. The reporters are missing’
September 19 Propaganda Blitz – A New Media Lens Book And An Urgent Appeal For Support
September 12 Charges ‘Without Merit’ – Jeremy Corbyn, Antisemitism, Norman Finkelstein and Noam Chomsky
September 6 Empire Journalism: Venezuela, the US and John McCain
August 9 Israel Is The Real Problem
August 1 ‘World On Fire’: Climate Breakdown
July 17 No Nerve Agents Found – The OPCW Interim Report On Douma
June 21 Enlightened Corners – The Russia 2018 World Cup
June 4 The Syrian Observatory – Funded By The Foreign Office
May 23 ‘Skirmishes’ – Israel’s Syria Blitz
May 16 ‘A Suffocating Groupthink’: Sampling The Corporate Media On Israel, Iran, Syria And Russia
April 26 Douma: Part 2 – “It Just Doesn’t Ring True”
April 25 Douma: Part 1 – Deception In Plain Sight
April 9 Killing Mosquitoes: The Latest Gaza Massacres, Pro-Israel Media Bias And The Weapon Of ‘Antisemitism’
March 21 No Spirit Of Liberty – The Salisbury Case, Corbyn And The Need For Dissent
March 7 “Follow Your Bliss” – The Tweet That Brought Corporate Journalism To The Brink Of A Nervous Breakthrough
February 8 ‘A Load Of Tosh’ – The BBC, ‘Showbiz News’ And State Propaganda
February 1 Champions Of Democracy – From Fake News To Imposed Insanity
January 18 A Liberal Pillar Of The Establishment – ‘New Look’ Guardian, Old-Style Orthodoxy

2017

December 5 Untouchable – The Uses And Misuses Of ‘Genocide Denial’
November 22 Survival? Symptoms Of Breakdown
November 10 ‘Inappropriate Behaviour’ – Michael Fallon, Yemen, And The ‘Mainstream’ That Is Anything But
October 10 Noam Chomsky And The BBC: A Brief Comparison
September 20 Bowing Down Before The BBC: Polly Toynbee and The Role Of A Liberal Propagandist
September 13 Preferred Conclusions – The BBC, Syria And Venezuela
September 5 The BBC’s Climate Denialism: Coverage Of Hurricane Harvey And The South Asian Floods
July 17 Mass Media Siege: Comparing Coverage Of Mosul and Aleppo
July 11 Holding Up A Mirror – An Appeal For Support
June 15 The Breaking Of The Corporate Media Monopoly
June 5 ‘The BBC Has Betrayed Its Own Rules Of Impartiality’: Yemen, Saudi Arabia And The General Election
June 1 Blowback – Manchester and the Libya Connection
May 10 ‘Meltdown’: The Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland Writes Jeremy Corbyn’s Obituary
May 4 A Response To George Monbiot’s ‘Disavowal’
April 26 ‘An Impeachable Offence’ – Professor Postol and Syria
April 18 Nuking The West Coast: BBC News Massively Hypes North Korean ‘Threat’ To The United States
April 12 Trump’s Tomahawks – The Instant Certainty Of The ‘Mainstream’ Press
March 21 What Is Objective Journalism?
March 3 Rehabilitating Bush – The Deadly Illusion Of Corporate Dissent
February 22 The ‘Superficial, Arrogant Smugness’ Of BBC News – Peter Oborne Delivers Some Home Truths On BBC Radio 4 Today
February 17 Paul Mason And The Grand Propaganda Narratives
February 6 Undermining Democracy – Corporate Media Bias on Jeremy Corbyn, Boris Johnson and Syria
January 30 Deranged And Deluded: The Media’s Complicity In The Climate Crisis

2016

December 13 BBC Propaganda Watch: Tell-Tale Signs That Slip Through The Cracks
December 5 Fake News About ‘Fake News’ – The Media Performance Pyramid
November 18 Filtering The Election
November 8 Flagship Of Fearmongering: The Guardian, MI5 And State Propaganda
November 3 Yemen Vote – The Responsibility To Protect Profits
October 17 ‘Centrist Soft-Liberal Feminism’ – Presidentialising Hillary Clinton
October 10 Media Silence Over Deadly Sanctions: From Iraq To Syria
October 3 The Great Libya War Fraud
September 13 Menwith Menace: Britain’s Complicity In Saudi Arabia’s Terror Campaign Against Yemen
August 25 ‘Propagandising For War’ – Gareth Porter Responds To The BBC Today Programme On Syria
July 25 Fifteen Years Of Media Lens – An Appeal For Support
July 13 The Great Iraq War Fraud
June 29 Killing Corbyn
June 21 The Fairy Tale Of The ‘Self-Questioning’ BBC
June 9 How The Press Hides The Global Crimes Of The West: Corporate Media Coverage Of Chad
May 17 Anatomy Of A Propaganda Blitz – Part 2: ‘Hitlergate’
May 12 Anatomy Of A Propaganda Blitz – Part 1
April 20 Corbyn’s Millions – Blair’s Millions
April 8 Last Chance President – Bernie Sanders And The Corporate Media
March 31 Kunduz Killers Go Free
March 10 Death In Honduras – The Coup, Hillary Clinton And The Killing Of Berta Cáceres
February 4 Rebranding The Conquistadors As Social Justice Warriors – The Guardian, Corporate Sponsorship And ‘Branded Content’
January 27 Obama – The Art Of Ruin
January 13 ‘Our Only Fear Was That He Might Pull His Punches’ – BBC Caught Manipulating The News

2015

December 17 The New McCarthyism – Keep The War Versus Stop The War
December 8 Manufacturing Consensus – Hilary Benn’s Speech
November 5 ‘Let’s Bring In Our Pentagon Spokesman’ – Bombing Syria
October 27 ‘I Would Have Refused Such An Order’ – Former RAF Pilot Gives His View Of US Bombing Of MSF Hospital In Kunduz
October 20 Sick Sophistry – BBC News On The Afghan Hospital ‘Mistakenly’ Bombed By The United States
October 5 Nuclear War And Corbyn – The Fury And The Farce
September 17 Media Activism In A Time Of Hope – An Appeal For Support
September 10 Invisible War Crimes – The Corporate Media On Yemen
September 4 Corbyn And The End Of Time – The ‘Crisis Of Democracy’
August 25 ‘Bullying’ – BBC Political Editor’s Bizarre Term For The Public Resisting The Establishment
August 6 Whitewash – The Guardian Readers’ Editor Responds On Jeremy Corbyn
July 29 Fantasy Politics – ‘Corbyn’s Morons’ And The ‘Sensible Approach’
July 8 Daesh, The Revolutionary Neoliberal Party and the British Falsehood Corporation
June 24 ‘Address Your Remarks To Downing Street’ –The Sunday Times Editor Deepens His Snowden Debacle
June 17 ‘We Just Publish The Position Of The British Government’ – Edward Snowden, The Sunday Times And The Death Of Journalism
June 2 Testing The Limits – Paul Krugman Of The New York Times and Gary Younge of the Guardian
May 12 Unfree Elections – The Corporate Media, UK General Election And Predictable Outcomes
April 16 Hillary Clinton – Of Glass Ceilings And Shattered Countries
April 8 When Free Speech Becomes Dead Silence – The Israel Lobby And A Cowed Academia
March 18 Love For Libya: 2011-2015
March 5 ‘A Conspiracy Of Silence’ – HSBC, The Guardian And The Defrauded British Public
February 25 ‘Corrosive, Shallow, Herd-Like And Gross’ – Peter Oborne And The Corporate Media
February 4 Conundrum – Syriza, Democracy And The Death Of A Saudi Tyrant
January 29 Feral Journalism – Rewilding Dissent
January 22 Death By A Thousand Cuts: Earth Enters The ‘Danger Zone’
January 15 Charlie Hebdo And The War For Civilisation

2014

December 8 ‘Grievous Censorship’ By The Guardian: Israel, Gaza And The Termination Of Nafeez Ahmed’s Blog
November 12 Russell Brand’s ‘Revolution’ – Part 2, The Backlash
November 11 Russell Brand’s ‘Revolution’ – Part 1, ‘The Fun Bus’
November 3 A Match Made In Heaven – President Obama And The BBC’s John Simpson
October 14 The Establishment – Andrew Marr And Owen Jones
October 1 The Comic Book Simplicity Of Propaganda
September 24 The Purpose And The Pretence – Bombing Isis
September 15 ‘Dark Omens’ And ‘Horror Shows’: Scottish Independence, Power And Propaganda
September 1 Damascene Conversions – Isis, Assad And The Bombing Of Iraq
July 24 ‘Disgustingly Biased’ – The Corporate Media On The Gaza Massacre
July 9 A Tale Of Two Titans – Jon Snow of C4 News And Jeremy Bowen of BBC News
July 2 Some Deaths Really Matter – The Disproportionate Coverage of Israeli And Palestinian Killings
June 24 ‘Gosh, Are They Still At It?’ An Appeal For Support
June 16 Blair: Bombing Iraq Better. Again
June 11 The Great White ‘Nope’ – Genevieve Jacobs, Paul Mason and Alain De Botton
May 15 Thinking The Right Thoughts
May 12 Eeny, Meeny Madness – Beyond Racism
April 28 ‘Hard Clay’ – Remaking Afghanistan In ‘Our’ Image
April 2 The Neverending ‘Wakeup Call’
March 27 Voting At Gunpoint – The Jaw-Dropping Media Bias On Crimea
March 24 Scotlandshire: BBC Scotland Coverage Of The Independence Referendum
March 19 Killing Trend – The Cruise Missile Liberals
March 10 The ‘Professorial President’ And The ‘Small, Strutting Hard Man’
February 24 The Fateful Collision – Floods, Catastrophe And Climate Denial
February 13 Bias Towards Power *Is* Corporate Media ‘Objectivity’: Journalism, Floods And Climate Silence
February 4 ‘Not Even Close To Reality’ – Filtering Sources On The Syrian War
January 27 Propaganda: ‘The Dominant Grand Narrative Of Our Time’
January 22 Ariel Sharon – War Is Peace

2013

December 17 An Awkward Silence – Burying The Hersh Revelations Of Obama’s Syrian Deceit
December 13 The Media’s Hypocritical Oath – Mandela And Economic Apartheid
November 26 Endless Stalemate: How Fossil Fuel Interests Are Killing Climate Action
November 20 Electrified Thought Fences – Narcissism: Real And Imagined
October 30 Launchpad For A Revolution? Russell Brand, The BBC And Elite Power
October 22 Journalist Or Activist? Smearing Glenn Greenwald
October 14 Where Journalism Collides With State ‘Security’: BBC News, MI5 And The Mantra Of ‘Keeping People Safe’
October 9 Structural Inclinations – The Leaning Tower of Propaganda: Chemical Weapons Attacks In Ghouta, Syria
September 27 Tilting At Easy Targets: Climate Change And The ‘Highly Ideological’ Liberal Mindset
September 19 ‘Damning Evidence’ Becomes ‘No Clear Evidence’: Much-Delayed Report On Congenital Birth Defects In Iraq
August 29 Massacres That Matter – Part 2 – The Media Response On Egypt, Libya And Syria
August 27 Massacres That Matter – Part 1 – ‘Responsibility To Protect’ In Egypt, Libya And Syria
August 15 All Journalism Is ‘Advocacy Journalism’
June 28 Snowden, Surveillance And The Secret State
June 18 ‘A Political Ploy’? The Guardian Editors Swallow US Claims On Syrian WMD
June 13 ‘Limited But Persuasive’ Evidence – Syria, Sarin, Libya, Lies
May 29 ‘The Planet Can’t Keep Doing Us A Favour’
May 13 ‘You Say What You Like, Because They Like What You Say’
May 8 ‘This Madman Must Be Stopped’ – Syrian Chemical Weapons
April 22 ‘The Stupidest And Most Extreme Section Of The British Left’
April 18 Thatcher’s Tyrants – The Tanks, The Guns, The Christmas Cards
March 26 Heading For A Different Planet
March 18 The Iraq War Was Not A Media Failure
March 13 Death Of A Bogeyman – The Corporate Media Bury Hugo Chávez
March 5 Down The Barrel Of A Gun
February 12 Forever Groundhog Day For Climate? A Tale Of Ice, Smokescreens And Rebellion
February 7 Jousting With Toothpicks – The Case For Challenging Corporate Journalism
January 30 Cartoon Politics: Rupert Murdoch, The Pro-Israel Lobby And Israel’s Crimes
January 24 Eyes Like Blank Discs – The Guardian’s Steven Poole On George Orwell’s Politics And The English Language
January 14 Death Of A Hero

2012

December 18 The Illusion Of Democracy
December 12 Won’t Get Fooled Again? Hyping Syria’s WMD ‘Threat’
November 27 ‘Flatten All Of Gaza’ – The ‘Benghazi Moment’ That Didn’t Matter
November 16 Gaza Blitz – Turmoil And Tragicomedy At The BBC
November 6 ‘Sworn Enemies’? A Response To George Monbiot
October 23 Bad Pharma, Bad Journalism
October 16 ‘But’ Or ‘And’? Reporting Chavez, Obama, Biden, Miliband, Cameron
October 2 The Ice Melts Into Water
September 25 US Consulate Killings – Spontaneous Religious Or Planned Political?
September 18 Why Are We The Good Guys?
August 20 ‘The Man Who Knew Everyone’ – Gore Vidal Through The Eyes Of The One Per Cent Press
July 30 The Return Of The King – Tony Blair And The Magically Disappearing Blood
July 23 The Right Kind Of Terror
July 18 Libyan Elections – Burying The Amnesty Report
July 10 Blocked By The BBC
July 5 Houla Massacre Update – The UN Report
June 27 Incinerating Assange – The Liberal Media Go To Work
June 19 Game Over For The Climate?
June 13 ‘Shades Of Grey’- Rethinking The Houla Massacre
May 31 The Houla Massacre
May 23 A Private Conversation – The Leveson Inquiry, Corporate Journalism And Elite Collusion
May 16 Good Rockets, Bad Rockets – BBC Bias On India And North Korea
April 25 ‘People Will Die’ – The End Of The NHS. Part 2: Buried By The BBC
April 23 ‘People Will Die’ – The End Of The NHS. Part 1: The Corporate Assault
April 3 When Populism Is Dangerous For Democracy – To The Media Gallows With ‘Controversial’ George Galloway
March 29 Postcard From The Precipice – An Appeal For Support
March 21 Constructing Consensus – The ‘Victims-And-Aggressor Meme’
March 6 Bombing Osirak, Burying UN Resolution 487 – An Exchange With The BBC’s Jonathan Marcus
March 1 Iran – Next In Line For Western ‘Intervention’?
February 16 UN ‘Travesty’: Resolutions Of Mass Destruction – Part 2
February 14 UN ‘Travesty’: Resolutions Of Mass Destruction – Part 1
February 2 Snow, White And The Two Daves – The Guardian Responds
January 25 Silence Of The Lambs
January 18 Selective Outrage – Iran And Libya

2011

December 15 ‘A Death Sentence For Africa’
December 1 Climate Crisis – The Collapse In Corporate Media Coverage
November 24 ‘They Found Nothing. Nothing.’
October 27 Killing Gaddafi
October 20 Britain’s Own Pravda-Style Propaganda: Part 2
October 18 Britain’s Own Pravda-Style Propaganda: Part 1
October 12 Targeting Syria – The ‘Bad News’ For The Guardian
September 28 Inciting Violence – Irony And The English Riots
September 20 The Golden Rule Of State Violence: Terrorism Is What They Do; Counterterrorism Is What We Do
September 5 To Avert A Bloodbath – Libya And The Press – Part 2
September 1 To Avert A Bloodbath – Libya And The Press – Part 1
August 2 A ‘Malign Intellectual Subculture’ – George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens
July 28 Murdoch’s Other Moral Crimes
July 15 Avalanche! Media Hyperbole On News Corp, The ‘Free’ Press And A ‘Berlin Wall Moment’
July 11 BBC Bombast – Propaganda, Complaints And Black Holes of Silence
July 6 ‘Extreme Dishonesty’ – The Guardian, Noam Chomsky and Venezuela
June 29 Rape, Mercenaries, And Bloodbaths On The Scale Of Yemen? The Media Blank Amnesty’s Failure To Find Evidence In Libya
June 22 Three Little Words: WikiLeaks, Libya, Oil
June 8 Ten Years Of Media Lens – Operation Rheinübung
May 27 Bad News From The BBC – Part 2: The ‘John Motson Approach To Analysing News’
May 25 Bad News From The BBC – Part 1: ‘Replete With Imbalance And Distortion’
May 19 You Cannot Kill An Ideology With A Gun
May 4 Fallujah, Iraq 2004 – Misrata, Libya 2011
April 27 If At First You Don’t Succeed – Four Decades Of US-UK Attempts To Topple Gadafi
April 14 Ten Years Of Media Lens – Some Questions And Answers
April 4 Yemen’s Useful Tyranny – The Forgotten History of Britain’s ‘Dirty War’: Part 2
March 31 Yemen’s Useful Tyranny – The Forgotten History of Britain’s ‘Dirty War’: Part 1
March 28 ‘Noble’ War In Libya – Part 2
March 23 ‘Noble’ War In Libya – Part 1
March 2 Tyranny And Rebellion – The Breaking Of The Corporate Media Monopoly
February 22 Comment Is Free But Freedom Is Slavery – An Exchange With The Guardian’s Economics Editor
February 9 Captive Nation – Egypt And The West
February 2 White Coat – The Media’s Moral Creepback
January 26 The Empty Press Room – How Corporate Journalism Happily Lost Interest in Climate Change
January 20 Collateral Damage – WikiLeaks In The Crosshairs
January 4 Guest Media Alert – Tilting Towards Israel

2010

December 15 What Happened To Academia? Part 2
December 14 What Happened To Academia? – Part 1
December 2 TOO TOXIC TO HANDLE?
November 24 NEW MEDIA LENS WEBSITE AND AN APPEAL
November 17 “Put the Palestinians on a Diet”
November 8 Wikileaks – The Smear And The Denial – Part 2
November 3 Wikileaks – The Smear And The Denial – Part 1
October 21 HOLLYWOOD – WEAPONISED DREAM FACTORY
October 7 DEATHLY SILENCE, OBAMA’S LETTER, NETANYAHU’S REJECTION AND THE MEDIA’S NON-RESPONSE
September 28 “VEILED THREATS” OF “INDUSTRIAL CHAOS”
September 17 A JOURNEY UNCHALLENGED – ANDREW MARR INTERVIEWS TONY BLAIR
September 7 BEYOND HIROSHIMA – THE NON-REPORTING OF FALLUJAH’S CANCER CATASTROPHE
August 9 BOGUS PARALLELS – THE INDEPENDENT’S DONALD MACINTYRE RESPONDS
July 20 “PEACE ENVOY” BLAIR GETS AN EASY RIDE IN THE INDEPENDENT
July 14 TECTONIC TILTING – Unlevel Playing Fields And The Rise Of Climate Scepticism
July 8 BBC = BIN AND BYPASS COMPLAINTS
July 1 MCCHRYSTAL – DEATH SQUAD POSTER BOY
June 16 BROTHERS-IN-ARMS: CAPITALISM AND CORPORATE JOURNALISM
June 11 HEADSHOT – PROPAGANDA, STATE RELIGION AND THE ATTACK ON THE GAZA PEACE FLOTILLA – Part 2
June 9 HEADSHOT – PROPAGANDA, STATE RELIGION AND THE ATTACK ON THE GAZA PEACE FLOTILLA
May 20 PROJECTILE DYSFUNCTION – IRON DOME, ISRAEL, TRIDENT, AND THE MEDIA
May 6 BREAK THE SILENT SPRING – A MEDIA LENS APPEAL FOR YOUR SUPPORT
April 28 THE ART OF LOOKING PRIME MINISTERIAL – THE 2010 UK GENERAL ELECTION
March 30 VICTORY FOR THE OVERLORDS – OBAMA’S HEALTHCARE REFORM
March 23 WHEN FACTS AND PROPAGANDA COLLIDE – THE BBC BENDS OVER BACKWARDS TO ACCOMMODATE ISRAELI CLAIMS
March 17 NATO’S FIRE SALE – ONE DEAD AFGHAN CHILD, $2,000
February 25 WAR AS PR – OPERATION MOSHTARAK, MEANING “TOGETHER”
February 22 GATES OF DELUSION Media Distortions And Real Climate Scandals
February 3 HAITI – THE BROKEN WING
January 20 HOW ALTERNATIVE MEDIA PROVIDE THE CRUCIAL CRITIQUE OF THE MAINSTREAM
January 14 NUCLEAR DECEIT – THE TIMES AND IRAN
January 11 WERE AFGHAN CHILDREN EXECUTED BY US-LED FORCES? AND WHY AREN’T THE MEDIA INTERESTED?

2009

December 16 CHILCOT INQUIRY – THE ESTABLISHMENT GOES TO WORK
December 4 THE SILENCE OF THE BBC 100 – BBC TRUST CHAIRMAN RESPONDS TO ‘NEWSPEAK’
November 25 DANCING ON A MASS GRAVE – OLIVER KAMM OF THE TIMES SMEARS MEDIA LENS
November 20 A COMPARATIVE REVIEW OF FLAT EARTH NEWS AND NEWSPEAK
November 6 THE BBC’S JEREMY PAXMAN ON IRAQ – “WE WERE HOODWINKED”
October 15 THE BALANCE OF POWER – EXCHANGES WITH BBC JOURNALISTS
October 8 THE WESTMINSTER CONSPIRACY
October 1 IRAN – THE WAR DANCE
September 22 THE COCKROACH TEST
September 15 TRUST IN PROFIT: JAMES MURDOCH, THE BBC AND THE MYTH OF IMPARTIALITY
September 2 “AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT”: THE US, ISRAEL AND IRAN
August 5 SIDING WITH THE GENERALS – THE INDEPENDENT ON HONDURAS
July 28 IRAN: RIDING THE “GREEN WAVE” AT THE CAMPAIGN FOR PEACE AND DEMOCRACY AND BEYOND – PART 1
July 23 AFGHANISTAN – “BIG BEASTS,” BIG BLOODBATH
July 9 HIRED HANDS – PART 2
July 7 HIRED HANDS – PART 1
June 29 Turning Children Into Consumers By Sharon Beder
June 18 NEWSPEAK IN THE 21ST CENTURY
June 15 THE GUARDIAN, CLIMATE AND ADVERTISING – AN OPEN EMAIL TO GEORGE MONBIOT
June 8 CARTOON KOREA – FILTERED TO FIT
May 18 BEHOLDEN TO THE BIG POWERS: ISRAEL, GAZA AND THE UN
May 8 THE LEFT-WING MEDIA FALLACY
April 24 PROTESTING WAR – AN EXCHANGE WITH THE BBC’S DIPLOMATIC EDITOR, MARK URBAN
March 30 CHILDREN OF DARKNESS – KILLING ‘THEM’ – PARTS 1 & 2
March 17 SELECTIVE VISION: IRAN, ISRAEL AND NUCLEAR ARMS
March 11 NEWSPEAK – A New Media Lens Book And An Urgent Appeal For Support
March 5 GENERIC INVADER NONSENSE – OBAMA ON IRAQ
February 17 PUTTING OUT THE PEOPLE’S EYES
February 4 THE BBC, IMPARTIALITY, AND THE HIDDEN LOGIC OF MASSACRE
January 23 THE BBC REFUSES TO BROADCAST GAZA CHARITY APPEAL
January 12 AN EYE FOR AN EYELASH: THE GAZA MASSACRE

2008

December 5 CAN THIS BE TRUE? GEORGE MONBIOT CHALLENGES MEDIA LENS ON HYPOCRISY
November 26 ‘LIVING OUR VALUES’ – GUARDIAN NEWS & MEDIA AND THE CLIMATE
November 13 OBAMA – WIPING THE SLATE CLEAN
November 3 CHILDREN IN THE CROSSHAIRS
October 22 PROPPING UP PROPAGANDA
October 15 INTELLECTUAL CLEANSING: PART 3
October 7 INTELLECTUAL CLEANSING: PART 2
October 2 INTELLECTUAL CLEANSING: PART 1
September 16 “NOT VERY INTERESTING” – Haiti, New Orleans And Media Hypocrisy
September 9 HAWKING THE TECHNOFIX – BUSINESS AS USUAL AND THE ULTIMATE GENOCIDE
September 4 WHEN NEWS IS NOISE – GEORGIA, SOUTH OSSETIA AND THE POLITICAL PIPELINE
July 22 SOME MATTER MORE – WHEN 47 VICTIMS ARE WORTH 43 WORDS
July 10 NEWS INTERNATIONAL THREATENS MEDIA LENS WITH LEGAL AND POLICE ACTION
June 26 GUEST MEDIA ALERT: DAVID PETERSON RESPONDS TO OLIVER KAMM
June 25 SELLING THE FIREBALL – GEORGE BUSH AND IRAN
June 11 “COMPLICIT ENABLERS” – UK MEDIA IGNORE US WHISTLEBLOWERS
May 28 BURMA AND THE MAKING OF IRAQ’S GHOST TOWNS
May 13 SOMALIA – HIDDEN CATASTROPHE HIDDEN AGENDA
April 29 FLEXIBLE FRIENDS – THE OBSERVER, THE INDEPENDENT, AND THE MYTH OF A MEDIA SPECTRUM
April 22 COVERING ISRAEL-PALESTINE – THE BBC’S DOUBLE STANDARDS
April 9 EXTRA ZERO
April 1 ‘WITH TOTAL DESTRUCTION’ – THE FAILURE OF JOURNALISM IN IRAQ
March 11 ISRAELI DEATHS MATTER MORE
March 5 FLAT EARTH NEWS – THE INSIDE VIEW – PARTS 1 & 2
March 3 Israel’s Illegal Assault On The Gaza ‘Prison’
February 12 SUHARTO – COVERING UP WESTERN COMPLICITY
February 7 ‘CREATIVE DESTRUCTION’ – THE MADNESS OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY – Part 2
February 5 ‘CREATIVE DESTRUCTION’ – THE MADNESS OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
January 22 ALL SMOKE, NO FIRE – THE NATIONAL JOURNAL SMEARS THE LANCET
January 10 DAVID AARONOVITCH – A DIFFERENT KIND OF COMPASSION

2007

December 18 MANUFACTURING THREATS – SUDAN, IRAN, AND THE WAR FOR CIVILISATION
December 6 THE FACELESS AND THE DEAD – THE GUARDIAN AND IRAQ’S REFUGEES
November 20 INVASION – A COMPARISON OF SOVIET AND WESTERN MEDIA PERFORMANCE
November 13 THE GANDHI FOUNDATION PEACE AWARD AND AN APPEAL FOR SUPPORT
November 1 ADVERTISING CLIMATE DISASTER – THE GUARDIAN READERS’ EDITOR RESPONDS
October 24 AN APPEAL FOR SUPPORT
October 17 “RED HERRING” – Al Gore, The Climate Sceptics And The BBC
October 10 Oil Laws – Colonising Iraq’s Economic Prize
October 3 IRAQ BODY COUNT: “A VERY MISLEADING EXERCISE”
September 26 I, (FASCIST) ROBOT – THE BBC’S GAVIN ESLER LETS RIP
September 18 The Media Ignore Credible Poll Revealing 1.2 Million Violent Deaths In Iraq
September 12 LOADED WORDS: ‘Surge’, ‘Reconstruction’ And ‘Withdrawal’
August 23 GIVING THE CLIMATE CAMP A GOOD TELLING OFF!
August 9 FACTS ARE NOT SACRED
August 2 BUSH-BROWN SUMMIT – THE MEDIA DECEPTION CONTINUES AND THE IRAQ CATASTROPHE DEEPENS
July 23 FROM BLAIR TO BROWN – THE KILLING WILL CONTINUE
July 4 MELTING ICE SHEETS AND MEDIA CONTRADICTIONS
June 27 WHO SHOULD BOMB IRAN FIRST?
June 13 CHAVEZ AND RCTV – TILTING THE BALANCE AGAINST ‘THE BAD GUY’
June 6 PENTAGON PROPAGANDA ON IRAN – THE GUARDIAN READERS’ EDITOR RESPONDS
June 1 ILLEGAL, IMMORAL, UNWINNABLE – A BRITISH ARMY OFFICER REPLIES TO MARK URBAN
May 31 NEWSNIGHT DIPLOMATIC EDITOR MARK URBAN RESPONDS
May 24 PENTAGON PROPAGANDA OCCUPIES THE GUARDIAN’S FRONT PAGE
May 22 THE SURGE – HERE TO HELP
May 11 THE SHINING CITY ON A HILL – PART 2
May 8 THE SHINING CITY ON A HILL – PART 1
May 2 PUTTING VIRGINIA TECH IN PERSPECTIVE
April 26 NEWSNIGHT EDITOR RESPONDS ON THE NICHOLAS BURNS INTERVIEW
April 17 THE BBC’S GAVIN ESLER INTERVIEWS US UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE NICHOLAS BURNS
April 4 A MENACE TO US ALL – MAX HASTINGS AND IRAN
March 21 CHANNEL 4’S CLIMATE SWINDLE – THE DISTORTIONS CONTINUE
March 13 PURE PROPAGANDA – THE GREAT GLOBAL WARMING SWINDLE
February 26 IRAQ CIVILIAN SUFFERING – THE MEDIA SILENCE
February 21 IRAN IN IRAQ
February 12 EXCHANGE WITH THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY’S REVIEW EDITOR
February 6 IN THE SPIRIT OF NERO
January 26 THE BBC AND THE ‘HARMLESS’ HEAT-RAY
January 23 SOMALIA – A TRIP DOWN MEMORY HOLE LANE
January 17 EXCHANGES WITH THE BBC AND CHANNEL 4
January 9 PATRIOTISM AS PROPAGANDA – PART 2
January 8 PATRIOTISM AS PROPAGANDA – PART 1

2006

December 22 THE LIBERATED AND THE DEAD
December 19 BORN IN THE USA – PINOCHET’S BLOODBATH
December 11 THE BBC BURIES THE TRUTH WITH THE DEAD IN IRAQ
December 5 ABANDON SHIP!
November 28 WAR AND PEACE – AND POVERTY
November 21 HIDING IMPERIALISM UNDER A CLOAK OF ‘BENEVOLENCE’
November 13 HANGING SADDAM HUSSEIN – BURYING WESTERN COMPLICITY
October 31 LANCET REPORT CO-AUTHOR RESPONDS TO QUESTIONS
October 24 EATING THE PLANET
October 18 DEMOCRACY AND DEBATE – KILLING IRAQ
October 10 THE FICTITIOUS FIREWALL
October 5 AN EXCHANGE WITH THE POLITICAL EDITOR OF THE NEW STATESMAN
September 29 BLAIR’S ‘BRILLIANT’ SPEECH
September 20 THE INVISIBLE WAR – The Media And The Insurgency
September 14 THE INVISIBLE CORPORATE SHADOW
September 11 HAITI – THE TRADITIONAL PREDATORS
September 5 BEYOND PROPAGANDA
August 21 THE BBC ONLINE NEWS EDITOR REPLIES ON INSURGENT ATTACKS
August 17 BURYING THE INSURGENCY IN IRAQ
August 10 THE VALUE OF BLOOD
July 26 DEMOLISHING LEBANON – PART 2
July 25 DEMOLISHING LEBANON – PART 1
July 10 BLAMING THE VICTIM IN GAZA
June 30 KIDNAPPED BY ISRAEL
June 28 A SUPERB DEMOLITION – PART 3
June 23 A SUPERB DEMOLITION – PART 2
June 22 A SUPERB DEMOLITION – PART 1
June 19 THE SYSTEM WORKS – THE INDEPENDENT ON LATIN AMERICA AND HUGO CHAVEZ
June 14 THE BBC’S JOHN SIMPSON RESPONDS AGAIN
June 9 AN EXCHANGE WITH BBC WORLD AFFAIRS EDITOR JOHN SIMPSON
June 7 FREEDOM NEXT TIME – AN EXTRACT FROM JOHN PILGER’S NEW BOOK
June 1 ANDREW RAWNSLEY AND BLAIR’S ENLIGHTENED VISION
May 30 SILENCE IN THE SERVICE OF POWER
May 18 RIDICULING CHAVEZ – THE MEDIA HIT THEIR STRIDE – PART 2
May 16 RIDICULING CHAVEZ – THE MEDIA HIT THEIR STRIDE – PART 1
May 11 NOTES FROM A DYING PLANET
May 8 LINING UP THE NEXT VICTIMS
May 3 MAELSTROM OF VITRIOL – THE BBC SMEARS MEDIA LENS
April 23 BBC NEWS WEBSITE EDITOR RESPONDS ON AMNESTY COVERAGE
April 21 DEMONISING IRAN
April 19 ‘YOU COULD KILL WHOEVER YOU WANTED’
April 10 IRAQ BODY COUNT – A SHAME BECOMING SHAMEFUL
April 5 CARTOON TIME – CHANNEL 4 SMEARS CHAVEZ
April 3 BBC WHITEWASH – HEAD OF NEWS RESPONDS
March 28 CURIOSITIES OF UTOPIAN THINKING
March 21 IRAQ ANNIVERSARY – BBC WHITEWASH
March 20 DISAPPEARING GENOCIDE
March 14 IRAQ BODY COUNT REFUSES TO RESPOND
March 9 THE THREAT OF DEMOCRACY
March 6 THE GUFF OF TONKIN INCIDENT
March 3 HACKS AND SPOOKS
February 21 OIL FOR THE KILLING MACHINE – THE BBC ON IRAQ
February 9 IRAN – THE MEDIA FALL INTO LINE
February 6 THE FINANCIAL TIMES’ ENVIRONMENT EDITOR RESPONDS
January 31 CLIMATE CHANGE – “WELCOME TO MARS (OR NORTH KOREA)!”
January 26 PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS – IRAQ BODY COUNT – PART 2
January 25 PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS – IRAQ BODY COUNT – PART 1
January 23 BEYOND THE ‘BLOG-O-BOTS’ – PART 2
January 16 THE POINT OF NO RETURN
January 12 BEYOND THE ‘BLOG-O-BOTS’
January 9 BAMBI JOURNALISM – THE ART OF PROFESSIONAL NAIVETY
January 4 NEW MEDIA LENS BOOK AND AN INTERVIEW WITH THE EDITORS

2005

December 19 BRILLIANT FOOLS
December 13 MEDIA ALERT: THE INSANE SOCIETY
December 6 BURNING THE PLANET FOR PROFIT
November 28 THE TRAGIC BLINDNESS OF THE EMBEDDED BBC
November 21 SMEARING CHOMSKY – THE GUARDIAN BACKS DOWN
November 4 SMEARING CHOMSKY – THE GUARDIAN IN THE GUTTER
November 1 Thought Control And ‘Professional’ Journalism – Part 2
October 25 Thought Control And ‘Professional’ Journalism – Part 1
October 20 Real Men Go To Tehran
October 18 Killing With Impunity
October 11 A Special Kind Of Independence
October 4 The First Media Lens Book – GUARDIANS OF POWER – And A Request For Support
September 27 PETER BEAUMONT OF THE OBSERVER ON “THE IRAQ PROJECT”
September 22 IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ – THE GUARDIAN BLANKS PUBLIC OPINION
September 12 BURYING THE LANCET – Update
September 6 BURYING THE LANCET – PART 2
September 5 BURYING THE LANCET – PART 1
September 2 CHEERLEADING THE CLIMATE CRIMINALS – PART 2
September 1 CHEERLEADING THE CLIMATE CRIMINALS – PART 1
August 24 THE DARK HEART OF ROBIN COOK’S ‘ETHICAL’ FOREIGN POLICY – PART 2
August 22 THE DARK HEART OF ROBIN COOK’S ‘ETHICAL’ FOREIGN POLICY – PART 1
July 20 MEDIA ALERT: BIASED, BLINKERED, CULPABLE
July 18 THE LONDON BOMBINGS
July 6 THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE VANISHING WORLD TRIBUNAL ON IRAQ
June 30 CONSPIRACY – THE DOWNING STREET MEMO – PART 2
June 27 CONSPIRACY – THE DOWNING STREET MEMO – PART 1
June 20 KICKING THE PEOPLE WHO WRITE THE CHEQUES
May 31 MANUFACTURED CONSENSUS – THE SUN AND SADDAM HUSSEIN
May 24 BBC STILL IGNORING EVIDENCE OF WAR CRIMES
May 17 BBC SILENT ON FALLUJAH
May 10 AMBUSHING DISSENT – THE BBC’S JEREMY PAXMAN INTERVIEWS GEORGE GALLOWAY
May 4 BURYING THE LEGAL ADVICE FOR WAR – PART 1
May 4 BURYING THE LEGAL ADVICE FOR WAR – PART 2
May 3 WALKING OVER CORPSES
April 26 WHAT’S SO FUNNY ABOUT PEACE, LOVE AND ARMAGEDDON?
April 18 RAPID RESPONSE MEDIA ALERT: DOUBT CAST ON BBC CLAIMS REGARDING FALLUJAH
April 13 IRAQ AND ZIMBABWE – A TALE OF TWO ELECTIONS
March 30 “NO GREAT WAY TO DIE” – BUT THE GENERALS LOVE NAPALM
March 23 NO POLITICS – ONLY ELECTIONS
March 18 BBC BROADCAST ‘FAKE’ NEWS REPORTS
March 16 A WARNING FROM AUSCHWITZ
March 10 EVERY BLOODBATH HAS A SILVER LINING – PART 2
March 9 EVERY BLOODBATH HAS A SILVER LINING – PART 1
March 1 IS THE EARTH REALLY FINISHED? Countering Despair With The Momentum Of Hope
February 23 MEDIA COMPLICITY IN WAR CRIMES
February 19 OR DO WE IGNORE THEM? Email Reveals BBC Contempt For Public Complaints
February 16 FEARS FOR A FINITE PLANET; Rampant Corporate Globalisation And The Climate Crisis
February 11 ONE SECOND PER VICTIM; Slaughter In Iraq And ITN’s Descent Into Absurdity
February 3 SILENCE IS GREEN; The Green Movement And The Corporate Mass Media
January 21 TARGETING IRAN: The BBC Propaganda Begins
January 20 UNITY IN DECEIT: The British Media And Iraq’s Election

2004

December 16 NAKED EMPIRE – PART 2
December 14 NAKED EMPIRE – PART 1
December 12 DWARFING THE TSUNAMI – A WARNING
December 7 THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES – ADAM CURTIS RESPONDS
December 4 NOAM CHOMSKY RESPONDS TO JOHANN HARI
December 1 PROTEST THE BBC ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2 – THIS IS WHY! PART 2
November 30 PROTEST THE BBC ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2 – THIS IS WHY! PART 1
November 26 FALLUJAH – THE BBC’S DIRECTOR OF NEWS RESPONDS
November 19 THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES AND THE REAL POLITICS OF FEAR – PART 2
November 18 THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES AND THE REAL POLITICS OF FEAR – PART 1
November 11 RAPID RESPONSE ALERT: LEGITIMISING MASS SLAUGHTER IN FALLUJAH – PART 2
November 10 RAPID RESPONSE MEDIA ALERT: SIDING WITH IRAQ – PART 2
November 8 RAPID RESPONSE ALERT: THE BBC – LEGITIMISING MASS SLAUGHTER IN FALLUJAH
November 4 100,000 IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATHS – PART 2
November 2 100,000 IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATHS – PART 1
October 29 RAPID RESPONSE MEDIA ALERT: SIDING WITH IRAQ – PART 1
October 21 THE BBC’S NICHOLAS WITCHELL RESPONDS
October 19 IRAQI CHILD DEATHS
October 15 WAGING WAR ON HATRED
October 7 FACING GOLIATH – A REQUEST FOR SUPPORT
October 5 THE MYTHOLOGY OF ‘MISTAKES’
September 29 IMMORAL MILESTONES
September 23 DECEPTIVE APPEARANCES
September 15 NO MEA CULPA FROM THE BRITISH MEDIA – PART 3
September 9 TARGETING IRAN
September 7 NO MEA CULPA FROM THE BRITISH MEDIA – PART 2
September 2 NO MEA CULPA FROM THE BRITISH MEDIA – PART 1
August 8 WHERE THE KILLING STARTS
July 28 THE BIAS IN ‘BALANCED’ JOURNALISM
July 14 GUEST MEDIA ALERT: EXPOSING THE MINISTRY OF MENDACITY
July 6 COVERING FOR MR. PRESIDENT
June 29 RAPID RESPONSE MEDIA ALERT: LET FREEDOM REIGN – THE BIG LIE
June 24 JEREMY PAXMAN INTERVIEWS NOAM CHOMSKY – PART 2
June 22 JEREMY PAXMAN INTERVIEWS NOAM CHOMSKY – PART 1
June 15 REAGAN – VISIONS OF THE DAMNED – PART 2
June 10 REAGAN – VISIONS OF THE DAMNED – PART 1
June 2 MEDIA ALTERNATIVES – PART TWO
May 27 MEDIA ALTERNATIVES – PART ONE
May 19 OF TAILS AND DOGS
May 14 HEAT DEATH
May 5 UGLY UNDERNEATH
April 28 PRIORITISING PROFIT – POVERTY IN A LAND OF PLENTY
April 23 BURYING GENOCIDE – THE UN ‘OIL FOR FOOD’ PROGRAMME
April 22 CRUSHING FALLUJA – PART 2
April 19 CRUSHING FALLUJA – PART 1
April 15 THE GUARDIAN’S SPARK EDITOR RESPONDS
April 6 ROLLING DEEPLY IN THE DUST
March 31 KOSOVO AND IRAQ – SAME BOMBS, DIFFERENT LIES
March 18 BOMBING THE PEACE PROTESTORS
March 10 HAITI – NO NEWS IS BAD NEWS
March 2 BRINGING HELL TO HAITI – PART 2
March 1 BRINGING HELL TO HAITI – PART 1
February 19 IN THE LABYRINTH OF ILLUSION
February 17 PUBLIC OPINION – NO VALUE
February 12 A FEW SIMPLE TRUTHS
February 6 GO FIND ME A WAY TO DO THIS – PART 2
February 4 GO FIND ME A WAY TO DO THIS – PART 1
January 27 RAPID RESPONSE UPDATE: GUARDIAN GREENWASH
January 23 RAPID RESPONSE UPDATE: SELF-DECEITS HELD IN COMMON
January 20 RAPID RESPONSE UPDATE: CLIMATE CATASTROPHE
January 16 GUEST MEDIA ALERT: WHY THE BBC DUCKS THE PALESTINIAN STORY – PART 2
January 15 GUEST MEDIA ALERT: WHY THE BBC DUCKS THE PALESTINIAN STORY – PART 1
January 12 LOGICAL MEDIA LUNACY
January 8 RAPID RESPONSE MEDIA ALERT: CLIMATE CATASTROPHE – THE ULTIMATE MEDIA BETRAYAL
January 6 RAPID RESPONSE MEDIA ALERT: THE BBC ON HIROSHIMA

2003

December 17 THE TYRANT WITH A THOUSAND FACES
December 8 GUEST MEDIA LENS ALERT: ASYLUM AND IMMIGRATION
December 3 JOHANN HARI RESPONDS – PART 1
November 21 TERROR AND THE WHIRLWIND
November 19 FRIENDLY BOMBS – PART 1
November 5 PREVAILING UNTRUTHS
October 30 FEAR OF BEING AN INDIVIDUAL
October 28 GEORGE MONBIOT QUERIES MEDIA LENS – PART 2
October 27 GEORGE MONBIOT QUERIES MEDIA LENS – PART 1
October 22 OUT ON A LIMB – PART 2
October 20 OUT ON A LIMB – PART 1
October 14 UNFINISHED BUSINESS
October 10 LULLING US INTO SUBMISSION
September 30 WRESTLING GOLIATH – A REQUEST FOR SUPPORT
September 25 THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING NUANCED
September 23 WHAT SHOULD I DO?
September 17 INSIGNIFICANT STRANDS OF THOUGHT
September 11 UPDATE: THE BBC’S DIRECTOR OF NEWS REPLIES ON SALE OF HAWK JETS TO INDIA
September 5 FEIGNED MEDIA PSYCHOSIS
August 28 ADVENTURES IN MEDIA SURREALITY – PART 2
August 19 ADVENTURES IN MEDIA SURREALITY – PART 1
August 15 THE INDEPENDENT’S ANDREW BUNCOMBE RESPONDS AGAIN
July 29 THOUGHT CONTROL
July 24 BEATING UP THE CHEERLEADER
July 15 GUEST MEDIA ALERT: HOT POTATO
July 8 Debunking Buncombe
July 2 Manufactured Controversies
June 27 Biting The Hand That Feeds – Part Two
June 25 Biting The Hand That Feeds – Part One
June 19 Stenographers To Power – “Saddam Loyalists” Or “Anti-Occupation Forces”? Ask The BBC
June 17 The Killing – ITN Returns To Baghdad
June 9 Mass Deception – Correction
June 6 Mass Deception – How The Media Helped The Government Deceive The People
June 3 Guest Alert: Basic Benevolence – An Extract From Web Of Deceit By Mark Curtis
May 29 Playground Journalism – David Aaronovitch Of The Guardian Smears Media Lens
May 22 Concealing Catastrophe – The BBC And ITN Respond On Iraq
May 21 As Good As It Gets – The Independent On Sunday And Orwell’s Memory Hole
May 16 Grit Your Teeth – Surgery In ‘Liberated’ Iraq
May 14 Demolishing Compassion – Greed, Profit, And Animals As ‘Converting Machines’
May 7 Chaining The Watchdog, Part 3 – Mainstream Credibility Is Dead – Long Live The ‘Netizens’!
May 3 Chaining The Watchdog, Part 2
April 30 Chaining The Watchdog, Part 1 – How Systemic Media Pressures Keep Us From The Truth
April 29 Killings At Falluja – The BBC Tells One Side Of The Story
April 25 Illusions Of Liberty – ITN, The BBC, And A Few Stupid Questions
April 18 Moral Meltdown – The Guardian and Observer Descend To New Depths
April 16 Operation Iranian Freedom – As American As Apple Pie
April 12 Falling Into Execute Mode – Mass Violence And Moral Responsibility
April 11 Vindication – A Statue Falls
April 9 Horror, Cruelty And Misery – The Real Meaning Of “Liberation”
April 7 Why Even Talk About It? – Part 2
April 4 Why Even Talk About It – Part 1
March 28 Inferno – Civilian Casualties, Censorship and Patriotism
March 24 All The Indicators Are Already Red – BBC, ITN, Independent, Guardian: Deceit In The Service Of Power
March 21 Falling At The Feet Of Power – Blair’s Sincerity And The Media
March 18 The Ruthless And The Dead
March 12 When Consumers Become Citizens – Teenage Rebellion And The Second Superpower
March 10 Liberation Into Tyranny – Iraq, MOAB and Demonstration Elections
February 28 Outrageous Omissions – How The Press Has Buried The Truth Of Iraqi Disarmament
February 26 Civil Disobedience
February 19 Blair’s Betrayal Part 3 – The Moral Case For War
February 14 A Day Of Global Action For Peace
February 11 Blair’s Betrayal Part 2 – The Newsnight Debate – Dismantling The Case For War
February 10 Blair’s Betrayal Part 1 – The Newsnight Debate – Dismantling The Case For War
February 6 Tortured Liberals – The Daily Mirror, Newsnight, and The Guardian/Observer
February 3 Questions For Tony Blair On Newsnight – How, When and Why Tony Blair Decided That Iraq Was a “Real and Unique Threat”
February 2 Full Spectrum Dissent Part 2 – Enlightened Self-Interest
January 31 Full Spectrum Dissent Part 1 – Extending The Scope Of The Propaganda Model
January 29 Lie And Rely – A Martian View of The Media’s Pro-War Propaganda Bubble
January 27 Statements By Denis Halliday and Norman Solomon
January 22 Two Words – Governments Lie. Iraq, Oil, Climate Change, and Tony Blair
January 20 Bombing It Better – Iraq, The Bombing of Afghanistan and Segregated Compassion
January 17 Guest Alert: A Letter By Grant Wakefield To Journalists
January 16 Pilger Film Vindicated by Independent Television Commission
January 14 Bitter Ironies Of Propaganda
January 9 The Great Betrayal – People Don’t Know, And They Don’t Even Know That They Don’t Know
January 7 Moral Dark Age? Millions of Suffering Iraqis – A ‘Blip’ In The Global Economy?
January 1 Update: BBC Director of News Responds on Channeling Government Propaganda

2002

December 19 Message From America – ITN Declares War On Iraq
December 18 BBC Channeling Government Propaganda
December 17 Adjusted Curiosity – Professional Servility And How To Overcome It
December 10 Update: Final Exchange With George Monbiot On The Guardian And The Propaganda Model
December 7 Update: George Monbiot Responds Again on Iraq and ‘Just War’
December 2 Update: George Monbiot Responds on Iraq and ‘Just War’
November 27 Update: Iraq – Panorama Editor and Guardian Editor Respond
November 19 Update: Bill Hayton of the BBC’s World Service Responds Again
November 14 Update: BBC World Service Editor Responds on Panorama
November 12 Update: Iraq and Arms Inspectors – The Guardian Responds
November 8 Our Pravda – The BBC, Panorama and Iraq
October 29 Iraq and Arms Inspectors – The Big Lie, Part 2
October 28 Iraq and Arms Inspectors – The Big Lie, Part 1
October 25 ‘Moderate’ Extremism – The Independent Provides Cover for the West’s Threat of an Iraq Invasion
October 19 Unique Threats – Profitable Responses
October 9 The Guardian and The Observer – Idolators Inc. A Tale of Two Political Gatherings
October 3 THE BBC’S ROBOTIC ASSERTION OF ‘IMPARTIALITY’
September 26 Hide the Looking Glass – The Observer, ITV, Channel 4, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, etc, On Western Crimes
September 19 Power, Fear and Silence – The Independent on Sunday, Verso Press and John Pilger
September 18 Mass Media Stoke the Fires of War
September 12 September 11 – October 07
September 5 Exchange With ITN’s Washington Correspondent on Iraq and Nuclear Weapons
September 4 How To Legitimise War – Iraq and the British Media
September 3 “Just One of Those Things” – The BBC and Global Warming
August 24 Iraq: Open Letter to United Nations Secretary General
August 22 Update: The BBC’s Newsnight Fails on Iraq
August 20 Force-Feeding The Dream – Consumer Advertising and Traditional Culture
August 15 The Scotsman on Iraq – “I Was Guilty of Imbalance”
August 8 Update: Liberal Herrings Part 2 – The Guardian’s John Vidal Responds on Climate Coverage
August 6 Update: Liberal Herrings Part 1 – The Guardian’s John Vidal Responds on Climate Coverage
July 26 Conspiracy-Free Conformity – How the Mainstream Smears Dissident Output
July 8 MEDIA ALERT UPDATE
July 8 Update: Deputy Director of BBC News Responds on Correspondent
July 8 ALERT UPDATE: Deputy Director of BBC News responds on Correspondent
July 4 ALERT UPDATE: CLIMATE OF SILENCE
July 1 ALERT UPDATE: Corresponent producer responds on John Sweeney’s Iraq documentary
June 28 ALERT UPDATE: John Sweeney Responds on Mass Death in Iraq
June 26 The BBC’s ‘The Century of the Self’
June 24 JOHN SWEENEY OF THE OBSERVER AND THE BBC ON IRAQ
June 19 Why The Media Will Not Debate With Media Lens
June 18 The BBC’s ‘The Century of the Self’
June 13 THE MAD MULLAHS OF THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA
June 1 “NO ONE CARED. NO ONE GAVE A DAMN.” THE BRITISH PRESS BURY WESTERN COMPLICITY IN EAST TIMOR GENOCIDE
May 22 Burying Big Business – The Guardian, National Missile Defence and Climate Change
May 13 The Media’s Stranglehold on the Climate ‘Debate’
May 9 How to Fool the Whole World – Machiavelli, the British Press and Jenin
May 1 A Tale of Two ‘Massacres’ – Jenin and Racak
April 18 Ignorance is Strength – The Mainstream Media and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
April 12 The BBC, The Sunday Telegraph and Cancer in Iraq
April 3 The Unspoken Rule of Media Reporting: The BBC’s The Century of the Self
March 26 Alert Update – The Observer’s Nick Cohen Responds Again on Iraq
March 20 Alert Update – All the Bloody Children
March 15 Update – The Observer’s Nick Cohen Responds on Iraq
March 13 Nick Cohen of the Observer on Iraq, Chomsky and Pilger
March 1 ALERT UPDATE – THE GUARDIAN’S MIDDLE EAST EDITOR RESPONDS ON IRAQ
February 27 IRAQ IN THE GUNSIGHTS
February 20 BBC Director-General Given An Easy Ride By The Independent
February 11 Arms, Climate Change and the Grand Media Deception
February 5 Alert Update – Director of BBC News Responds
January 24 Alert Update – The BBC’s Director of News Responds on Mass Death of Refugees in Afghanistan
January 17 Alert Update – The BBC Responds on Mass Death in Afghanistan
January 12 Alert Update – Guardian Journalist Responds on Dissidents
January 6 Update – The Mass Death of Civilians in Afghanistan (Correction)
January 6 Update – The Mass Death of Civilians in Afghanistan
January 4 Alert Update – BBC Correspondent Responds on Red Cross Report
January 3 Media Ignores the Mass Death of Civilians in Afghanistan

2001

December 28 BBC Ignores Climate Change In Reporting New Disaster Fund
December 20 The World After September 11, By Noam Chomsky
December 8 Dismissing Dissidents
December 6 Contributors’ Special
December 4 ‘Independent’ Commentator Proposes Rule By Violence And Terror
December 2 Greenpeace Esso Adverts Rejected By Press
November 28 Dumb Is Not The Word…!
November 27 Turning Towards Iraq
October 19 Advertising Makes A Mockery Of Press Freedom
October 13 The BBC’s Political Editor Responds
October 3 New Chairman Confirms The BBC As A Mouthpiece For Establishment Views
October 1 The Media Is Tough On Terrorism But Not Tough On The Causes Of Terrorism
September 4 How the Media Promotes Obedience to Authority
August 11 The Guardian Misses the Point on National Missile Defence
July 19 Guardian Wrong to Praise Business on Global Warming
July 9 The Independent Glosses Over the West’s Complicity in East Timor Genocide
July 9 US and UK Politicians Overlooked in Crimes Against Humanity

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