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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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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