In his book Necessary Illusions, Noam Chomsky summarised the stark divide separating media treatment of state crimes: “In the case of enemy…
Voluntary Subjection Cannot Be Forced Following the death of Ronald Reagan in June 2004, the US media watchdog FAIR reported that major…
On December 24, the Independent on Sunday’s front page featured a portrait of a British soldier gazing pensively into the distance. A…
The title of the BBC news report was suitably ‘balanced’: ‘Iraqi Deaths.’ Not ‘American Massacre,’ or ‘American Massacre Of Iraqi Civilians.’ News…
The BBC website’s reporting of the judgement was big, bold and triumphal: “Celebrations hail Saddam verdict in Baghdad’s Shia- dominated Sadr City.”…
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On September 28, we wrote to Martin Bright, the political editor of the New Statesman: Dear Martin Hope you’re well. On Newsnight…
A Deep-Seated Longing Odd things happen when corporate journalists, selected for obedience and conformity, are exposed to powerful leaders speaking at grand…
On the eve of the January 2005 elections in Iraq, Scott Peterson and Dan Murphy reported in the Christian Science Monitor: “the…
On May 25, one of us spent several minutes laughing on the phone with a friend of ours, an environmental journalist. We…
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