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Cromwell: BBC = Bin And Bypass Complaints
Commentary, July, 10 2010
David Cromwell
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Robert Fisk wrote last week in the Independent of how an unnamed friend of his, "a Very Senior Correspondent of the BBC", responded to a recent challenge. Fisk could no longer recall whether it "was about the BBC's grovelling coverage of Israel or...
Cromwell: NATO's Fire Sale - One Dead Afghan Child, $2,000
Commentary, March, 23 2010
David Cromwell
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In December, BBC news online had posted these two brief ‘balanced’ reports of the US-led killing of the Afghan...
Cromwell: Gates Of Delusion
Commentary, February, 28 2010
David Cromwell
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Since November last year, the public has been bombarded with the story of stolen emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, revealing a supposed "scandal" of scientific malpractice, stupidly and lazily named "climateg...
Cromwell: Were Afghan Children Executed By Us-Led Forces? And Why Aren't The Media Interested?
Commentary, January, 14 2010
David Cromwell
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Ignoring or downplaying Western crimes is a standard feature of the corporate Western media. On rare occasions when a broadcaster or newspaper breaks ranks and reports 'our' crimes honestly, it is instructive to observe the response from the rest ...
Cromwell: "An Existential Threat": The Us, Israel And Iran
Commentary, September, 19 2009
David Cromwell
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On August 26, the Guardian newspaper published an article titled, 'US takes on Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Iran's nuclear programme in one massive gamble.'
Cromwell: Propping Up Propaganda - Iraq, Climate And The Corporate Media's Fear Of The Public
Commentary, October, 28 2008
David Cromwell
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Since starting Media Lens in 2001, we have learned that corporate journalists are very often ill-equipped, or disinclined, to debate vital issues with members of the public.
Cromwell: 'Creative Destruction' - The Madness Of The Global Economy - Part 2
Commentary, February, 17 2008
David Cromwell
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Public spending and public investment continued to grow, rather than shrink as in Russia...
Cromwell: 'Creative Destruction' - The Madness Of The Global Economy - Part 1
Commentary, February, 11 2008
David Cromwell
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Watching the corporate media report the 'financial crisis' is instructive. From the perspective of power, it is important that a steadying hand is applied to the tiller of news and commentary on the crisis, and the global economy itself.
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: 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: 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: 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.
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:
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)
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)
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...
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...
Cromwell: Prioritising Profit: Poverty In A Land Of Plenty
Commentary, September, 15 2004
David Cromwell
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Child Poverty? Who Cares!
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.
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...
Cromwell: Thought Control
Commentary, August, 17 2003
David Cromwell
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The Chains of Seduction
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
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...
Cromwell: Naked Power: How 'benign' Western Politicians And 'objective' Media Lead Whole Nations Into War
Commentary, February, 01 2003
David Cromwell
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Never before have our leaders been so naked in all their Machiavellian lust for power and destruction. And growing numbers of the public are beginning to see it. With no 'smoking gun' detected after extensive UN investigations, even using intellig...
Cromwell: Turning the World into Hell?
Commentary, November, 25 2002
David Cromwell
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Take a look at the media sections of the broadsheets, if you can handle the inane navel-gazing, insider gossip and trivia. A recurrent theme is whether television news is being 'dumbed-down' in order to hang on to fragmenting audiences. Corporate ...
Cromwell: Honest And Compassionate: The Reporting Of John Pilger
Commentary, August, 26 2002
David Cromwell
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One of the guiding principles of the western liberal democracies is that the crimes of our 'enemies' must be scrupulously held up for account and condemnation, while our own crimes are ignored, minimised or cast as examples of 'humanitarian interv...
Cromwell: Shaping The Public Good
Commentary, June, 18 2002
David Cromwell
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A popular view today - that is to say, the prevailing view held by those in positions of power and influence - is 'that contemporary Western society and more especially, the "American way of life" corresponds to the deepest needs of human nature a...
Cromwell: Regulating The University Mind
Commentary, May, 14 2002
David Cromwell
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I blame my dad. As a mature student of geography and Russian at Glasgow University, he used to take me and my wee brother Kenneth to the campus in the west end of the city, just off Byres Road in Hillhead. Gilbert Scott's Gothic creation, fulfilli...
Cromwell: The public threat to private power
Commentary, January, 14 2002
David Cromwell
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ÔThe single greatest threat to the multilateral trade system is the absence of public support.Õ Thus spoke Charlene Barshefsky, ClintonÕs U.S. trade representative, in the run-up to the 1999 WTO summit in Seattle.
