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Znet Article Edwards: Intellectual Cleansing: Part 3 - Comment Is Closed

Znet Article, October, 15 2008 David Edwards
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In Part 1 we noted how journalists who threaten their employers’ interests - and the interests of their key political and corporate allies - tend to be unceremoniously dumped. We also described how the force of the law can be deployed to silence d...

Znet Article Cook: Intellectual Cleansing 2

Znet Article, October, 14 2008 Jonathan Cook
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In many ways, my introduction to journalism was far from typical. In the mid-1980s, after university, I was casting around for a career and decided to “try” journalism. I called the local free newspaper in the city in which I had graduated, Southa...

Znet Article Lendman: Project Censored's Media Democracy Advocacy

Znet Article, October, 02 2008 Stephen Lendman
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For 32 years, Sonoma State University's (SSU) Project Censored has pioneered US media democracy, research, and First Amendment issues. Founded by Carl Jensen in 1976, it's now headed by Professor Peter Phillips, currently on sabbatical leave, with...

Znet Article Edwards: Intellectual Cleansing: Part 1 - Keeping The Media Safe For Big Business

Znet Article, October, 02 2008 David Edwards
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Martin Tierney is one of a tiny number of mainstream journalists willing to review our book, ‘Guardians of Power’. In June 2006, he published an accurate outline of our argument in the Herald, commenting: “It stands up to scrutiny.”

Commentary Edwards: "NOT VERY INTERESTING" - Haiti, New Orleans And Media Hypocrisy

Commentary, September, 28 2008 David Edwards
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The figure of 1,000 dead in Haiti compares with eight dead reported for Louisiana. And yet a media database search (September 15) showed that the words 'New Orleans' and 'hurricane' appeared in 265 UK newspaper articles over the last three weeks. ...

Znet Article Jensen: Free speech not safe from attack by Canadian media corporation

Znet Article, September, 22 2008 Robert Jensen
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When the bottom line is threatened, corporations typically show little concern for holding the line on political principles such as freedom of expression. In capitalism, freedom is too often just another word for maximizing profits.

Znet Article Cromwell: Hawking The Technofix - Business As Usual And The Ultimate Genocide

Znet Article, September, 14 2008 David Cromwell
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Last month, a senior UK government adviser warned of the real risk of a devastating rise in global temperatures of 4 degrees Celsius...

Znet Article Edwards: When News Is Noise - Georgia, South Ossetia And The Political Pipeline

Znet Article, September, 12 2008 David Edwards
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A Los Angeles Times editorial observed last month that China had persuaded world leaders to attend the Olympic Games “despite their misgivings about Beijing's horrific human rights record both domestically and abroad”. The horror, the editors note...

Commentary Pilger: A Murderous Theatre Of The Absurd

Commentary, September, 12 2008 John Pilger
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Try to laugh, please. The news is now officially parody and a game for all the family to play.

Commentary Monbiot: Self-Justifying Myths

Commentary, July, 29 2008 George Monbiot
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There is just one party which doesn't seem to care about the controversy created by The Great Global Warming Swindle. That is the company which broadcast it: Channel 4. In fact it seems rather proud of the fuss, and I suspect that Ofcom's damning ...

Znet Article Edwards: Some Matter More - When 47 Victims Are Worth 43 Words

Znet Article, July, 24 2008 David Edwards
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In reporting the November 2005 Haditha massacre, in which 24 Iraqi civilians were murdered by US troops, Newsweek suggested that the scale of the tragedy “should not be exaggerated”. Why?

Commentary Monbiot: Censored by Money

Commentary, July, 23 2008 George Monbiot
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After every test case, the media assume the worst is over: that Britain's libel laws, designed to protect the powerful from public scrutiny, have been fanged, and freedom of speech will no longer be treated like a crime. And then it gets worse.

Commentary Billet: Still Stuck in 'Guyville'

Commentary, July, 18 2008 Alexander Billet
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Listening to Liz Phair's debut Exile in Guyville, recently reissued by ATO Records after years out of print, it's striking how fresh and new the album sounds. It's raw, coarse, cocky and confrontational; it fits right in with the kind of rock albu...

Znet Article Edwards: News International Threatens Media Lens With Legal And Police Action

Znet Article, July, 13 2008 David Edwards
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On June 28 and July 3, Media Lens received repeated threats of both legal and police action from Alastair Brett, legal manager of News International’s Times Newspapers.

Zmag Article Bronski: How Vietnam Gave us Dude, Where's My Car

Zmag Article, July, 01 2008 Michael Bronski
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One of the most amazing cultural responses to the war against Iraq has been the plethora of documentary and feature films produced by independent companies and even Hollywood studios. From In the Valley of Elah, Grace is Gone, and Stop-Loss to Red...

Zmag Article Herman: Aggression Rights and Wrongs

Zmag Article, July, 01 2008 Edward Herman
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A recent book by Michael Vickery, Cambodia: A Political Survey, dramatizes once again the fantastic double standard that operates in cases of cross-border attacks by the weak, and U.S. targets, and the strong, especially the United States.

Commentary Edwards: Selling The Fireball - George Bush And Iran

Commentary, June, 29 2008 David Edwards
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When George Bush arrived in Britain last week as part of his "farewell tour", the real reasons for the visit were buried well out of sight. The tour was not, as the Guardian suggested, a mere "continental au revoir". The purpose was to coerce Gord...

Znet Article Lendman: Robert McChesney's The Political Economy of Media (Part II)

Znet Article, June, 27 2008 Stephen Lendman
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McChesney's book is a compilation of his best political economy of media work in the past two decades. It contains 23 separate offerings under three topic headings. In them he covers "enduring issues" and "emerging dilemmas." Part I of this review...

Znet Article Lendman: Robert McChesney's The Political Economy of Media (Part I)

Znet Article, June, 26 2008 Stephen Lendman
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Robert McChesney is a leading media scholar, critic, activist, and the nation's most prominent researcher and writer on US media history, its policy and practice. He's also University of Illinois Research Professor in the Institute of Communicatio...

Znet Article Lendman: The Supreme Court, Habeas, John Yoo and Murdoch's Wall Street Journal

Znet Article, June, 23 2008 Stephen Lendman
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Rupert Murdoch has a corrosive effect on whatever he touches, and this writer once tangled with him in an article called Lies, Damn Lies and the Murdoch Empire. Former Chicago columnist Mike Royko also did and remarked that "no self-respecting fis...

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