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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-...

Znet Article Cromwell: Mea Culpa III

Znet Article, September, 16 2004 David Cromwell
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  In Parts 1 and 2 of this alert, we asked a number of British media editors to conduct publicly available critiques investigating their failings on Iraq. We received several replies. In Part 1, we published responses from The Observer and ITN. I...

Commentary Cromwell: Prioritising Profit: Poverty In A Land Of Plenty

Commentary, September, 15 2004 David Cromwell
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Child Poverty? Who Cares!

Znet Article Cromwell: No Mea Culpa From The British Media - Part 2

Znet Article, September, 08 2004 David Cromwell
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In Part 1 of this alert, we asked a number of British newspaper editors to conduct publicly available critiques investigating their failings on Iraq. We received several replies. In Part 1, we presented the responses from The Observer and ITN. ...

Znet Article Cromwell: No Mea Culpa From The British Media

Znet Article, September, 04 2004 David Cromwell
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"The evidence suggests we have no need for a mea culpa. We did our job well." (David Mannion, Head of Independent Television News, to Media Lens, August 2004) Blair - Refreshed And Refocused It is an ugly reality that, every day, people are dy...

Commentary Cromwell: Burying Genocide - The Un 'oil For Food' Programme

Commentary, May, 28 2004 David Cromwell
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Mainstream media show an astonishing capacity for overlooking western crimes against the people of Iraq: a country utterly devastated by two US-UK wars, and by twelve years of sanctions that resulted in more than a million civilian deaths.

Znet Article Cromwell: Heat Death - Now Blair Spins Climate Change

Znet Article, May, 14 2004 David Cromwell
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On 29-30 April, 1991 one of history's premier storms hit Bangladesh - 138,000 peop...

Znet Article Cromwell: Bringing Hell To Haiti - Part 1

Znet Article, March, 01 2004 David Cromwell
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Introduction - Anyone Here Feeling Stupid? Have you noticed how stupid you feel when you watch the news? Hands up anybody who understands what's going on in Haiti? The media is good at repeatedly broadcasting footage of armed gangs roaming in tr...

Znet Article Cromwell: Public Opinion - No Value

Znet Article, February, 17 2004 David Cromwell
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In 1794, George Washington confided to Alexander Hamilton, a fellow architect of the nascent US republic forged upon democratic ideals, that he had "long since learned to hold public opinion of no value." [1] Just over a century later, in 1898, ...

Commentary Cromwell: Balance Sheets, Death and Silence

Commentary, December, 21 2003 David Cromwell
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The impact of war is always devastating, horrific and routinely sanitised for home audiences by editors and journalists. Robert Fisk, Middle East correspondent for The Independent is a notable exception. "It was a scene from the Crimean War", he o...

Znet Article Cromwell: Being Radical

Znet Article, October, 28 2003 David Cromwell
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Why do activists so often focus on hard facts, reams of figures and dry arguments, while neglecting to deal with the intensely human issues of motivation, loneliness, burnout, selfishness and suffering? Why do we so often respond to elite power wi...

Znet Article Cromwell: Insignificant Strands of Thought

Znet Article, September, 18 2003 David Cromwell
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What is news? And who makes the news? Perhaps BBC director of news Richard Sambrook can help shed some light. Sambrook recently replied to a Media Lens reader who had pointed out that BBC coverage accepts without question that the US and UK ' coal...

Commentary Cromwell: Thought Control

Commentary, August, 17 2003 David Cromwell
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The Chains of Seduction

Commentary Cromwell: Unravelling Britain's Web Of Deceit

Commentary, June, 26 2003 David Cromwell
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The title of activist-historian Mark Curtis's recent book tells it all: "Web of Deceit. Britain's Real Role in the World". It is worth quoting immediately from the foreword by journalist John Pilger: "Mark Curtis's

Znet Article Cromwell: Stenographers To Power

Znet Article, June, 19 2003 David Cromwell
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Honourable Deception When it came to power in 1997, Britain's Labour government claimed that it would be a "force for good in the world" (quoted, Mark Curtis, Web of Deceit, Vintage, 2003, p.1). What proportion of the British public would find th...

Znet Article Cromwell: The Independent On Sunday And Orwell's Memory Hole

Znet Article, May, 21 2003 David Cromwell
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The media system is not monolithic - dissident material does appear, comparatively honest documentaries are seen. The point is that they are few and far between, and effectively swamped by the vast mass of deceptive material. Once in a while, news...

Znet Article Cromwell: Horror, Cruelty And Misery - The Real Meaning Of

Znet Article, April, 09 2003 David Cromwell
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The priorities are clear, the perspective of power unthinkingly adopted. And so mainstream news headlines declaim that "coalition forces have penetrated deep into the centre of the Iraqi capital". Troops "storm central Baghdad". Pentagon briefings...

Znet Article Cromwell: All The Indicators Are Already Red

Znet Article, March, 24 2003 David Cromwell
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Quote 1 "Iraq: The Human Cost Of War50,000 civilian deaths?500,000 civilians injured?2,000,000 refugees and displaced people?10,000,000 in need of humanitarian assistance?"(Front cover of the March/April 2003 issue of "Amnesty", Amnesty Internati...

Znet Article Cromwell: Day of Global Action for Peace

Znet Article, February, 14 2003 David Cromwell
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On Saturday 15 February, anti-war demonstrations will be taking place around the world. The Media Lens co-editors will be joining upwards of half-a-million peace activists in London. This promises to be the biggest public protest in British histor...

Commentary Cromwell: Lethal Threats: Global Warming, Elite Power And Bounded Debates

Commentary, February, 07 2003 David Cromwell
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"Global warming is great," wrote space technologist Duncan Steel in the comment pages of The Guardian recently, "because it protects us from the unpredictable big freeze that would be far, far worse." ('Global warming is good for you', The Guardi...

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