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Veneration Of Power Leading To Climate Catastrophe

12th December 2018

In a recent media alert, we presented a few rules that journalists must follow if they are to be regarded as a safe pair of hands by editors and corporate media owners. One of these →

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Limits Of Dissent – Glenn Greenwald And The Guardian

6th December 2018

When we think of prisons, we tend to think of Alcatraz, Bang Kwang and Belmarsh with their guard towers, iron bars and concrete. But in his forthcoming book, ’33 Myths of the System’, Darren Allen →

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The Filter Bubble – Owen Jones And Con Coughlin

14th November 2018

There is something dreamlike about the system of mass communication sometimes described as ‘mainstream media’. The self-described ‘rogue journalist’ and ‘guerrilla poet’ Caitlin Johnstone tweeted it well: ‘The Iraq invasion feels kind of like if →

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How To Be A Reliable ‘Mainstream’ Journalist

8th November 2018

There are certain rules you need to follow as a journalist if you are going to demonstrate to your editors, and the media owners who employ you, that you can be trusted. For example, if →

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Caught In The Cross Hairs – Media Lens And The Mystery Of The Wikipedia Editor

17th October 2018

In June, the BBC reported that someone operating under the name ‘Philip Cross’ had been extraordinarily active in editing Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit: ‘”Philip Cross” has made hundreds of thousands of →

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Blanket Silence: Corporate Media Ignore New Report Exposing Distorted And Misleading Coverage of Corbyn

3rd October 2018

If there’s one thing we’ve learned in the 17 years since Media Lens began, it’s that media professionals generally hate being challenged, critiqued or criticised. This fierce antipathetical belligerence underlies the corporate media’s total refusal →

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Guest Media Alert by John Pilger: ‘Hold the front page. The reporters are missing’

20th 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 →

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Propaganda Blitz – A New Media Lens Book And An Urgent Appeal For Support

19th September 2018

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 →

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Charges ‘Without Merit’ – Jeremy Corbyn, Antisemitism, Norman Finkelstein and Noam Chomsky

12th September 2018

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 →

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Empire Journalism: Venezuela, the US and John McCain

6th September 2018

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 →

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