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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 →

To what extent is business a positive force for good in a world undergoing potentially devastating human-induced climate change? In the week that government leaders are meeting in Bonn to discuss the rapidly-crumbling Kyoto Protocol, →

The bloody history of Western support for Indonesia’s illegal annexation of East Timor in 1975 is glossed over in a recent news report by Kathy Marks in The Independent (‘Australia bows to East Timor over →

Should US and UK politicians be brought to account for alleged crimes against humanity in Iraq, Serbia, Vietnam, Cambodia and elsewhere? Last week’s appearance by Slobodan Milosevic, the former leader of Yugoslavia, in front of →