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Znet Article Edwards: Selective Outrage

Znet Article, January, 31 2012 David Edwards
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We wonder if the Guardian would have described the Iranian assassination of scientists on US or Israeli streets as ‘goading’.

Znet Article Cromwell: Britain’s Own Pravda-Style Propaganda

Znet Article, October, 23 2011 David Cromwell
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Western media support for the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, in the wake of the al-Qaeda attacks of 11 September, was steadfast from the beginning

Znet Article Lewis: Hackgate: A Triumph for the Liberal Media?

Znet Article, August, 19 2011 Edward Lewis
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Politicians will only pursue progressive policies if they are put under significant public pressure to do so; not because the News of the World has closed

Znet Article Cromwell: Obama’s Letter, Netanyahu’s Rejection And The Media’s Non-Response

Znet Article, October, 10 2010 David Cromwell
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Following Israel’s capture of the West Bank in 1967, along with other territories including East Jerusalem, Israel has built and expanded Jewish settlements on occupied Palestinian land.

Znet Article Cromwell: The Silence Of The BBC 100 - BBC Trust Chairman Responds To 'Newspeak'

Znet Article, December, 06 2009 David Cromwell
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When has a BBC journalist so much as raised an eyebrow while channelling US-UK propaganda about the "peace enforcement operation" in Afghanistan or Iraq? It is unimaginable that a Newsnight presenter would declare such claims "the kind of Newspeak...

Znet Article Cromwell: Beholden To The Big Powers: Israel, Gaza And The UN

Znet Article, May, 19 2009 David Cromwell
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Earlier this month, the UN announced the results of an inquiry into attacks on its buildings and personnel in Gaza.

Znet Article Cromwell: Selective Vision: Iran, Israel And Nuclear Arms

Znet Article, March, 17 2009 David Cromwell
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At the end of 2007, a thorough assessment by the United States concluded that Iran’s nuclear weapons programme had already halted in 2003. The National Intelligence Estimate was the consensus view of all 16 US spy agencies...

Znet Article Cromwell: 'Living Our Values' - Guardian News & Media And The Climate

Znet Article, November, 28 2008 David Cromwell
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Last week, Guardian News & Media (GNM) published 'Living Our Values', an independently audited account of the company's annual performance on sustainability issues. GNM, which encompasses the Guardian, the Observer and guardian.co.uk, claims to ha...

Znet Article Cromwell: Children In The Crosshairs

Znet Article, November, 04 2008 David Cromwell
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On the afternoon of Thursday 28 February, 2008, a group of Palestinian boys were playing football on some open ground near their homes in the Gaza Strip. At around 3.20pm, an Israeli aircraft fired a missile at the boys, killing four of them insta...

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 Cromwell: Covering Israel-Palestine - The BBC's Double Standards

Znet Article, April, 22 2008 David Cromwell
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The media reported last week that at least 22 people, including five Palestinian children, had been killed during Israeli 'incursions' into Gaza. The Israeli military 'operations' were 'sparked' by a Hamas ambush that had left three Israeli soldie...

Znet Article Cromwell: Israeli Deaths Matter More

Znet Article, March, 11 2008 David Cromwell
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The horrific shooting of eight young people at a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem last Thursday was followed by saturation media coverage. International statesmen lined up with condemnations of the attack and condolences for the victims and their fami...

Znet Article Cromwell: Israel's Illegal Assault On The Gaza 'Prison'

Znet Article, March, 04 2008 David Cromwell
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Israel has drawn international criticism for its latest series of onslaughts against the 'prison' of Gaza, the crowded home to 1.4 million Palestinians. Since last Wednesday (February 27), 112 Palestinians have died under Israeli air attacks and '...

Znet Article Cromwell: Racing Towards The Abyss: The U.S. Atomic Bombing of Japan

Znet Article, January, 16 2008 David Cromwell
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One of the major events of the twentieth century, with reverberations that reach today, is the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan in 1945...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

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