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Dismissing Dissidents

You’ve got to admire the consistency of the mainstream media. On the rare occasions when the work of dissident thinkers is reviewed in the press, they are invariably treated with derision and scorn. Nothing strange

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Contributors’ Special

Mighty though the Media Lens team is – what with its three part-time, unpaid staff! – there is only so much we can do. We are therefore truly delighted when readers and subscribers support our

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Dumb Is Not The Word…!

“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

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Turning Towards Iraq

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