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Cromwell: "Red Herring" - Al Gore, The Climate Sceptics And The BBC
Znet Article, October, 18 2007
David Cromwell
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On October 10, the BBC's Ten O'Clock News led with the story that a High Court Judge had found nine "errors" in Al Gore's climate film, 'An Inconvenient Truth', which the UK government has been sending to schools around the country. As a result, b...
Cromwell: Red Herring" - Al Gore, The Climate Sceptics And The BBC
Znet Article, October, 18 2007
David Cromwell
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On October 10, the BBC's Ten O'Clock News led with the story that a High Court Judge had found nine "errors" in Al Gore's climate film, 'An Inconvenient Truth', which the UK government has been sending to schools around the country. As a result, b...
Cromwell: Colonising Iraq's Economic Prize
Znet Article, October, 12 2007
David Cromwell
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An Equitable Sharing of Resources?We are led to believe that Western societies are free and open. In many respects this is true: freedom of speech and the right to protest still exist, albeit within ever-tighter constraints. At root, however, much...
Cromwell: Loaded Words: 'Surge', 'Reconstruction' And 'Withdrawal'
Znet Article, September, 13 2007
David Cromwell
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News media this week are devoting huge swathes of coverage to the report by General David Petraeus, the top US military commander in Iraq, on the impact of the so-called 'surge' of US troops. The surge boosted the number of US troops in Iraq earli...
Edwards: FROM BLAIR TO BROWN - THE KILLING WILL CONTINUE
Znet Article, July, 24 2007
David Edwards
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The first truth of American foreign policy is that it is formulated to maximise corporate profits and state power. The second truth is that it is perennially sold to the public as a mission to spread freedom, democracy and human rights. The third ...
Cromwell: THE SHINING CITY ON A HILL - PART 2
Znet Article, May, 13 2007
David Cromwell
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THE SHINING CITY ON A HILL - PART 2
Cromwell: THE SHINING CITY ON A HILL - PART 1
Znet Article, May, 10 2007
David Cromwell
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"The shining city upon a hill" was how John Winthrop, one of the early Pilgrims, described America, his new homeland. Winthrop was making reference to the Sermon on the Mount in which Jesus had addressed a large crowd:"You are the light of the...
Cromwell: IN THE SPIRIT OF NERO
Znet Article, February, 07 2007
David Cromwell
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"There ain't no time to wonder whyWhoopee! We're all gonna die." ('Feel Like I'm Fixin' To ...
Cromwell: WAR AND PEACE - AND POVERTY
Znet Article, November, 30 2006
David Cromwell
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It was the Daily Telegraph, not the 'liberal' Independent or Guardian, that reported accusations last week that Tony Blair is "wasting nearly £7 billion of taxpayers' money on a failing war on terror". (Toby Helm and Brendan Carlin, 'Anger at £7b...
Cromwell: RAPID RESPONSE MEDIA ALERT:
Znet Article, November, 22 2006
David Cromwell
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The title above Yasmin Alibhai-Brown's column yesterday in the Independent was a real corker, joining our list of banal nuggets from the liberal media: 'Even when our foreign policy is benevolent, it appears condescending and exploitative.' (The...
Cromwell: The Fictitious Firewall: The Mythical Divide Between Journalism And Advertising
Commentary, November, 08 2006
David Cromwell
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In its latest annual report on media performance, US-based watchdog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) noted that:
Cromwell: Eating the Planet
Znet Article, October, 25 2006
David Cromwell
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The Bland Leading The Bland October 9 saw one of the Independent's explosive front-page stories on the global environment: "Earth's ecological debt crisis." According to a new study, humanity is "putting an intolerable strain on nature". Martin H...
Cromwell: The Fictitious Firewall: The Mythical Divide Between Journalism And Advertising
Znet Article, October, 18 2006
David Cromwell
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In its latest annual report on media performance, US-based watchdog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) noted that: "Most people are aware that news media rely on corporate advertising dollars - though the fact is rarely discussed, and when...
Cromwell: The Invisible Corporate Shadow
Commentary, October, 06 2006
David Cromwell
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The Australian social scientist Alex Carey summed up the evolution of political power in the last century as follows:
Cromwell: Correcting For The Distorted Vision Of The Corporate Media
Znet Article, August, 20 2006
David Cromwell
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Since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the BBC, like the media more generally, has consistently attempted to delegitimise armed opposition to Britain and America's illegal occupation of Iraq. Initial reporting presented the insurgency as a fa...
Cromwell: The System Works - The Independent On Latin America And Hugo Chavez
Commentary, July, 05 2006
David Cromwell
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An Understandable Mistake
Cromwell: Silence In The Service Of Power
Commentary, June, 03 2006
David Cromwell
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In November last year, as many as 24 Iraqi civilians - among them 11 women and children - were killed by US marines in Haditha, western Iraq. The New York Times has described the atrocity as possibly "the gravest case involving misconduct by Ameri...
Cromwell: From A Dying Planet
Znet Article, May, 11 2006
David Cromwell
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Last year we reported that Michael McCarthy, environment editor of the Independent, was "taken aback" at dramatic scientific warnings of "major new threats" in the Earth's climate system. For instance, the West Antarctic ice sheet, previously cons...
Cromwell: The Curiosities of Utopian Thinking
Znet Article, March, 28 2006
David Cromwell
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Sean O'Grady wrote recently in the ad-filled motoring supplement of The Independent: "in answer to the many letters we get criticising some of our coverage, we don't make cars. We just write about them. [...] We try to concentrate on telling our r...
Cromwell: The Power Inquiry And Fear Of Public Opinion
Znet Article, March, 09 2006
David Cromwell
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Front-page headlines greeted the publication last week of the Power Report into the 'meltdown' of British democracy. Plummeting participation in elections and a growing chasm between the public and party politics had prompted the study by an indep...
