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20 Years Of Media Lens: A Selection Of Remarkable Replies From Journalists

23rd February 2021

The Insiders In a 2002 interview with the Observer, the BBC’s John Cody Fidler-Simpson CBE of Kabul, to give him his full name and title, was asked to define the ‘essential qualities’ of a journalist. →

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‘Our Indifference To Ourselves’ – Beyond The ‘Virtue’ Of Self-Sacrifice – Part 1

10th February 2021

The name Arnold Ridley will be familiar to many viewers of ‘Dad’s Army’, one of Britain’s best-loved TV comedies, which ran a long time ago (1968-1977) but is still shown on prime time BBC TV. →

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‘A Ghastly Future’? Israeli Apartheid, Biden, Starmer, Assange And Mass Extinction

20th January 2021

Back in 2017, before WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange was silenced by Twitter, he used the platform to highlight an immutable truth: ‘The overwhelming majority of information is classified to protect political security not national security.’ →

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Stuck In A Lift With John Pilger – ‘News And How To Use It’ by Alan Rusbridger

4th December 2020

Noticing the way journalists seemed unable to resist commenting on our work, even if it was just to slag us off, Glenn Greenwald tweeted us in 2012: ‘You are really deeper in the heads of →

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The Dead And Those About To Die – Climate Protests And The Corporate Media

17th November 2020

The Roman poet Horace famously declared: ‘Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.’ It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. Wilfred Owen, the great English poet of the First World War, described →

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Robert Fisk – Death Of A ‘Controversial’ Journalist

10th November 2020

Robert Fisk, the Independent’s Middle East correspondent, died on 30 October aged 74. In reviewing his life and career, the newspaper for which he worked for more than two decades wrote of their star reporter: →

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Guardian-Friendly Omissions – ‘This Land’ By Owen Jones

23rd October 2020

In his latest book, ‘This Land – The Story of a Movement’ (Penguin, ebook version, 2020), the Guardian’s Owen Jones charts the rise and fall of Jeremy Corbyn. Jones depicts Corbyn as a ‘scruffy,’ (p.8), →

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‘None Of It Reported’: How Corporate Media Buried The Assange Trial

7th October 2020

One of the most imposing features of state-corporate propaganda is its incessant, repetitive nature. Over and over again, the ‘mainstream’ media have to convince the public that ‘our’ government prioritises the health, welfare and livelihoods →

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The ‘War Against Us’ – The Battle of Britain And Steve Richards On ‘The Prime Ministers’

23rd September 2020

We can report that the skies over South East England have been swarming with Spitfires and Hurricanes this month. Is there a war on? Well, yes. In 1991, the historian Howard Zinn described the two →

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‘Absolute And Arbitrary Power’: Killing Extinction Rebellion And Julian Assange

9th September 2020

The use and misuse of George Orwell’s truth-telling is so widespread that we can easily miss his intended meaning. For example, with perfect (Orwellian) irony, the BBC has a statue of Orwell outside Broadcasting House, →

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