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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...
Cromwell: Heat Death - Now Blair Spins Climate Change
Znet Article, May, 14 2004
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
On 29-30 April, 1991 one of history's premier storms hit Bangladesh - 138,000 peop...
Cromwell: Bringing Hell To Haiti - Part 1
Znet Article, March, 01 2004
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
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...
Cromwell: Public Opinion - No Value
Znet Article, February, 17 2004
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
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, ...
Cromwell: Being Radical
Znet Article, October, 28 2003
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
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...
Cromwell: Insignificant Strands of Thought
Znet Article, September, 18 2003
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
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...
Cromwell: Stenographers To Power
Znet Article, June, 19 2003
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
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...
Cromwell: The Independent On Sunday And Orwell's Memory Hole
Znet Article, May, 21 2003
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
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...
Cromwell: Horror, Cruelty And Misery - The Real Meaning Of
Znet Article, April, 09 2003
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
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...
Cromwell: All The Indicators Are Already Red
Znet Article, March, 24 2003
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
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...
Cromwell: Day of Global Action for Peace
Znet Article, February, 14 2003
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
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...
Cromwell: Bombing It Better
Znet Article, January, 20 2003
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
On January 7, 2003, Media Lens published a Media Alert: 'Moral Dark Age? Millions Of Suffering Iraqis: A "Blip" In The Global Economy?'. This was in response to a New Year comment piece in The Independent by economics correspondent Hamish McRae, t...
Cromwell: Moderate Extremism
Znet Article, October, 25 2002
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
Western state power prides itself on its 'moderation', along with its self-lauded commitments to freedom, tolerance, and "the inalienable rights of man", as U.S. defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld put it recently in a British newspaper ("We must ac...
Cromwell: ZNet Interviews David Cromwell
Znet Article, October, 14 2002
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
ZNet Interviews David Cromwell
Cromwell: Mass Media Stoke The Fires Of War
Znet Article, September, 18 2002
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
News broadcasts and column inches are rapidly saturating with the rhetoric of war. The fate of the Iraqi people hangs in the balance. Iraq has now backed down in the face of overwhelming US/UK threats to launch a massive attack on that devastated ...
Cromwell: Deputy Director of BBC News responds re Iraq
Znet Article, July, 08 2002
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
Mark Damazer, the deputy director of BBC News, has declared his support for the recent controversial BBC Correspondent documentary on Iraq (see archived media alerts). In a letter to The Guardian, Damazer defends the biased and distorted programm...
Cromwell: Climate Of Silence
Znet Article, July, 05 2002
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
On May 13, 2002, Media Lens issued a media alert titled 'The Media's Stranglehold on the "Climate" Debate': We suggested that Media Lens readers contact Michael McCarthy and John Vidal - the environment editors of The Independent and The Guard...
