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Znet Article Cromwell: Point of No Return?

Znet Article, January, 18 2006 David Cromwell
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Billions Will Die The Independent and the Independent on Sunday (IoS) pride themselves on their environmental coverage. No doubt their editors will indicate today's dramatic front page as a case in point. The paper depicts the Earth from space ov...

Commentary Cromwell: Burning The Planet For Profit

Commentary, January, 18 2006 David Cromwell
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After 4.6 billion years of planetary history, we may become the first species to monitor its own extinction. In impressive detail, humankind is amassing evidence of devastating changes in the atmosphere, oceans, ice cover, land and biodiversity.

Commentary Cromwell: Predatory Urges, Plastic Brains and Empowerment

Commentary, January, 05 2006 David Cromwell
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A Media Lens reader wrote to us recently quoting historian Mark Curtis's accurate observations that:

Znet Article Cromwell: The Tragic Blindness Of The Embedded Bbc

Znet Article, November, 28 2005 David Cromwell
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Helen Boaden, director of BBC News, said earlier this year: "We are committed to evidence-based journalism. We have not been able to establish that the US used banned chemical weapons and committed other atrocities against civilians in Falluja la...

Znet Article Cromwell: A Special Kind Of Independence

Znet Article, October, 20 2005 David Cromwell
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"I am a maximalist. I want more of everything." (Sir Anthony O'Reilly, chief executive, Independent News & Media Plc) "More than a million species could die out as a result of global warming. And it is not an asteroid that will have caused this, o...

Znet Article Cromwell: Immediate Withdrawal

Znet Article, September, 24 2005 David Cromwell
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We do not know whether Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger wrote yesterday's leader on "Britain's post-invasion commitment to Iraq", but we assume that he approved it. ('Signposting the Exit,' The Guardian, September 21, 2005) "No one is arguing for ...

Znet Article Cromwell: Cheerleading The Climate Criminals - Part 2

Znet Article, September, 03 2005 David Cromwell
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The Independent: As Good As It Gets? The Independent - like the Guardian, a newspaper with supposed progressive credentials - noted blandly in a recent editorial that "Global warming is given little coverage by the US media." (Leader, 'The Americ...

Znet Article Cromwell: Cheerleading The Climate Criminals - Part 1

Znet Article, September, 01 2005 David Cromwell
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A Raging Debate in Nowhere Land Earlier this month, New Scientist reported the astonishing news that the world's largest frozen peat bog, comprising an area the size of France and Germany combined, was melting. According to researchers who have b...

Znet Article Cromwell: Biased, Blinkered, Culpable

Znet Article, July, 20 2005 David Cromwell
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Media Lens recently issued a media alert about the lack of British media coverage given to the World Tribunal on Iraq, held in Istanbul last month. Our alert, The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing World Tribunal on Iraq, was sent out on July 6, 200...

Commentary Cromwell: MEDIA ALERT: THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE VANISHING WORLD TRIBUNAL ON IRAQ

Commentary, July, 10 2005 David Cromwell
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"The best relationship with our viewers is no longer one of parent-child but of consenting adults trying to piece together the best picture of the world." (Roger Mosey, head of BBC TV news)

Znet Article Cromwell: Ambushing Dissent

Znet Article, May, 11 2005 David Cromwell
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  "The 'societal purpose' of the media is to inculcate and defend the economic, social and political agenda of privileged groups that dominate the domestic society and the state." (Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent) Highly-p...

Znet Article Cromwell: Rapid Response Media Alert: Doubt Cast On BBC Claims Regarding Fallujah

Znet Article, April, 19 2005 David Cromwell
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The BBC has published an online Newswatch article entitled 'Has the BBC ignored weapons claims?' (April 14, 2005). This is in response to a large number of emails generated by our March 30 Media Alert, 'No Great Way to Die,' (see under 'Latest',...

Znet Article Cromwell: Rapid Response Media Alert:

Znet Article, April, 19 2005 David Cromwell
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The BBC has published an online Newswatch article entitled 'Has the BBC ignored weapons claims?' (April 14, 2005, http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ukfs/hi/newsid_4390000/newsid_4396600/4396641.stm). This is in response to a large number of emails ...

Znet Article Cromwell: The Generals Love Napalm

Znet Article, March, 30 2005 David Cromwell
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The Generals Love Napalm

Commentary Cromwell: Countering Despair with the Momentum of Hope

Commentary, March, 27 2005 David Cromwell
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"What goes against the grain of conditioning is experienced as not credible, or as a hostile act." (John McMurtry, philosopher)

Znet Article Cromwell: Is The Earth Really Finished?

Znet Article, March, 04 2005 David Cromwell
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"What goes against the grain of conditioning is experienced as not credible, or as a hostile act." (John McMurtry, philosopher) Bizarre Conversations Climate crisis is not a future risk. It is today's reality. As Myles Allen, a climate scien...

Znet Article Cromwell: Fears For A Finite Planet

Znet Article, February, 16 2005 David Cromwell
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  Rampant Corporate Globalisation And The Climate Crisis "Our continuing uneconomic growth makes us complicit in a process that is triggering an ecological catastrophe for our children and generations beyond them. They will justifiably sit in ju...

Commentary Cromwell: Seduced By Doses Of Dissent

Commentary, January, 29 2005 David Cromwell
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Given the regimented, mind-numbing conformity to power in the US mainstream media, it must be refreshing for US-based progressives to see and enjoy the occasional challenging piece in the British press. Yes, good articles do appear from time to ti...

Commentary Cromwell: Directing Bbc News In Support Of War

Commentary, January, 03 2005 David Cromwell
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BBC news coverage is balanced, objective and fair. At least, that is what the BBC continually tells its viewers and listeners. In particular, the invasion and occupation of Iraq has been, and is being, properly reported. That's the message the Bri...

Znet Article Cromwell: Quick Response to Blair's Speech

Znet Article, October, 06 2004 David Cromwell
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Tony Blair's speech yesterday to the Labour Party Conference in Brighton was "low-key, conversational and reasoned" the Guardian informs us (Leader, September 29, 2004). And his "long-awaited apology on Iraq, as far as it went, was a rightly well-...

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