Alerts

Instilling fear is the key to US victory in the “war against terrorism”, according to Stephen Pollard, a senior fellow at the Centre for the New Europe, Brussels. Writing in The Independent, Pollard claims that →

The great unreported story of climate change is the true extent to which big business is opposed to the Kyoto climate change treaty and indeed any action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. When the corporate →

“And the main headline this lunchtime: Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles have appeared as a couple, in public, for the first time.” (ITN 1 O’Clock News, 29.1.99) Very occasionally the corporate media subjects itself to →

Most TV, and much broadhseet, news reporting consists of telling the audience what leaders are doing, not why, and of speculating on what they +say+ they are hoping and thinking, not on what they are →

One of the great ‘Flat Earth’ ideas of our time is the notion that deep dependence on corporate advertising does not compromise the ability of our corporate press to report honestly and accurately. Contrary to →

Our media alert, “New Chairman Confirms the BBC as a Mouthpiece for Establishment Views” (October 3, 2001), provoked a response from the BBC’s political editor, Andrew Marr. This is Mr Marr’s response (October 7, 2001) →

The BBC never tires of reminding us of its bona fides. A recent BBC advert assured us: “Honesty, integrity – it’s what the BBC stands for.” During the recent general election, the same source declared: →

The great rallying cry of New Labour on entering office in 1997 was that they would be “tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime”. The liberal media were of one voice in →

In a departure from the usual format of media alerts, we are providing Media Lens subscribers with a preview of the following article. A slightly edited version will be published (under a different title) in →

“The whole aim of practical politics,” H.L. Mencken once wrote, “is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” The contemporary hobgoblins of choice, of →