Commentaries
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- Sunday, Mar 27, 2011
Commentary Historian Howard Zinn (1922-2010), would be remembered above all for his humanity and warmth, were it not for the crystal clarity of his insight. -
- Thursday, Feb 10, 2011
Commentary In 2011, ‘the thing in itself’ is alive and well in Egypt. What an extraordinary spectacle it is - a dictatorship behaving as though an entire people were its personal property. -
- Sunday, Sep 12, 2010
Commentary Compassion is sometimes a central theme of media reporting. On August 25, journalists across the UK described how a British woman, Mary Bale, had been filmed dropping a cat into a wheelie bin. The cat was later released unharmed. -
- Sunday, Feb 28, 2010
Commentary 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... -
- Thursday, Nov 12, 2009
Commentary In an interview last week, Jeremy Paxman - leading interviewer on BBC 2's flagship Newsnight programme - claimed that he had been "hoodwinked" by US government propaganda prior to the invasion of Iraq in 2003... -
- Sunday, Oct 18, 2009
Commentary News that philosopher Alain de Botton had been hired as Heathrow's "writer in residence" generated minor ripples across the media pond, including occasional murmurs of disapproval. Journalists momentarily failed to repress their awareness that tru... -
- Thursday, Aug 06, 2009
Commentary Iran's June 12 presidential elections have been widely criticised, both domestically and abroad, as lacking credibility. During the popular protests that followed, some 30 people were killed by government forces with hundreds more arrested. These ... -
- Saturday, May 23, 2009
Commentary It is a mistake to imagine that media corporations are impervious to all complaints and criticism. In fact, senior editors and managers are only too happy to accept that their journalists tend to be 'anti-American,' 'anti-Israel,' 'anti-Western,' ... -
- Wednesday, Jan 28, 2009
Commentary Numerous members of the public have written to us expressing their bewilderment at the violence of Israel's 22-day attack on Gaza killing upwards of 1,400 people and wounding 5,500. To many witnessing the onslaught on their TV screens (especially ... -
- Saturday, Jan 17, 2009
Commentary An Eye For An Eyelash: The Gaza Massacre - Part 2 -
- Friday, Jan 16, 2009
Commentary An Eye For An Eyelash: The Gaza Massacre - Part 1 -
- Sunday, Sep 28, 2008
Commentary 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. ... -
- Sunday, Jun 29, 2008
Commentary 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... -
- Sunday, Jan 27, 2008
Commentary Last year, we described how mainstream climate sceptics had queued up to praise film-maker Martin Durkin's now infamous documentary, The Great Global Warming Swindle. The Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, and their counterparts in the United States... -
- Sunday, Jan 13, 2008
Commentary If "The wages of sin is death", the returns must seem altogether less bleak to Tony Blair. In November, Blair was reported to have received £237,000 for a 20-minute speech before an audience of Chinese entrepreneurs. While his salary as prime mini... -
- Thursday, Feb 15, 2007
Commentary General Mann: "That skeleton beam must be what they used to wipe out the French cities." -
- Saturday, Jan 20, 2007
Commentary Voluntary Subjection Cannot Be Forced -
- Sunday, Jan 14, 2007
Commentary On December 24, the Independent on Sunday's front page featured a portrait of a British soldier gazing pensively into the distance. A banner headline filled the page: "An 'IoS' Christmas special with the troops - Letters home from the front, pages... -
- Sunday, Oct 22, 2006
Commentary On September 28, we wrote to Martin Bright, the political editor of the New Statesman: -
- Tuesday, Sep 19, 2006
Commentary On May 25, one of us spent several minutes laughing on the phone with a friend of ours, an environmental journalist. We were looking at the homepage of the Independent website - a newspaper that has made huge efforts to present itself as a radical... -
- Thursday, Jun 01, 2006
Commentary In Part 1 of this alert we showed how the mainstream media have been united in depicting Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez as an extreme, absurd and threatening figure. In essence, the public has been urged to consider Chavez beyond the pale of res... -
- Sunday, May 21, 2006
Commentary Controlling what we think is not solely about controlling what we know - it is also about controlling who we respect and who we find ridiculous. -
- Tuesday, Apr 18, 2006
Commentary On March 27, Channel 4 News included a report by Washington Correspondent Jonathan Rugman: 'Hugo to go?' (http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=2046) -
- Friday, Jan 27, 2006
Commentary In Part 1 of this alert we reviewed Robert Fisk's observation that "more and more people are trying to find a different and more accurate narrative of events in the Middle East. It is a tribute to their intelligence that instead of searching for b... -
- Thursday, Jan 26, 2006
Commentary Robert Fisk On The British Media - Part 1 -
- Monday, Oct 31, 2005
Commentary The Roman historian Tacitus observed: "Crime once exposed has no refuge but in audacity." -
- Sunday, Oct 02, 2005
Commentary Writing on the BBC's website last month, World Affairs correspondent Paul Reynolds observed that George Bush was struggling to turn Iraq into a stable country before his term ends in January 2009: -
- Saturday, Jul 30, 2005
Commentary Samples From An Ocean Of Suffering -
- Wednesday, Apr 20, 2005
Commentary Okay, We'll Let Them Have A Government -
- Monday, Mar 07, 2005
Commentary "Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we." (Jean Rostand) - All Commentaries
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- Friday, Oct 12, 2007
Book Can a corporate media system be expected to tell the truth about a world dominated by corporations? - All Recent Books
Articles
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- Thursday, May 09, 2013
ZNet Article In the strange world of media propaganda, news reports contradict editorials and headlines contradict content -
- Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013
ZNet Article The state-corporate system in fact does not loathe dictators, or people who support and salute them. It loathes dictators who obstruct Western power and profit -
- Thursday, Mar 21, 2013
ZNet Article The real 'failure' was the emergence of undeniable evidence that the media had all along been boosting Bush-Blair lies -
- Friday, Mar 15, 2013
ZNet Article What lies behind the Western media's obsession with Chávez? -
- Sunday, Feb 10, 2013
ZNet Article In an attempt to break the spell and challenge the silence, we do deliberately use provocative language. We believe the media is far more toxic than most people imagine -
- Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013
ZNet Article In our media culture, it is cool to mock, but decidedly uncool to become a ‘crusader’ for a cause -
- Sunday, Dec 16, 2012
ZNet Article What is actually going on in the minds of people who know that exactly the same ploy was exposed as a cynical deception just a few years ago? -
- Thursday, Nov 29, 2012
ZNet Article During Operation Pillar of Cloud, the BBC was far more interested in comparing the ranges of Hamas’ home-made rockets -
- Sunday, Nov 18, 2012
ZNet Article The role of BBC News as handmaiden to power is exemplified by its reporting on the latest series of brutal Israeli assaults on Gaza -
- Thursday, Oct 18, 2012
ZNet Article Perspective is something no-one should expect from the corporate press anytime soon -
- Thursday, Oct 04, 2012
ZNet Article Arctic ice melt, psychopathic capitalism and the corporate media -
- Friday, Sep 28, 2012
ZNet Article Establishment bias is built into the very structure, the very DNA, of professional journalism -
- Thursday, Aug 23, 2012
ZNet Article Gore Vidal took great delight in demolishing the fragile confections of ‘mainstream’ politics -
- Tuesday, Jul 24, 2012
ZNet Article When is an act of terrorism not terrorism? When the victims are officially sanctioned state enemies -
- Friday, Jul 20, 2012
ZNet Article The reality is that the US government uses the symbolic value of a client state election ‘to mobilize home support for its preferred policies' -
- Saturday, Jul 07, 2012
ZNet Article One of the great triumphs of modern politics is the near-complete insulation of US-UK foreign policy against democratic pressures -
- Thursday, Jun 28, 2012
ZNet Article The media response to Assange’s asylum request tells us much about the default brutality and reflexive herdthink of elite corporate journalism -
- Thursday, Jun 14, 2012
ZNet Article As ever, genuine diplomacy in pursuit of a peaceful, compassionate solution is not an option when the overriding goal is regime change -
- Friday, Jun 01, 2012
ZNet Article Massacres and crises of this kind (real, imagined, or manufactured) have been used to justify Western armed intervention in the past -
- Tuesday, Jan 31, 2012
ZNet Article We wonder if the Guardian would have described the Iranian assassination of scientists on US or Israeli streets as ‘goading’. -
- Saturday, Oct 29, 2011
ZNet Article Compassion is a threat because it is politically incorrect, resistant to robotic demonising by the cheerleaders of hate. -
- Wednesday, Sep 07, 2011
ZNet Article On August 23 and 24, the media once again abandoned all pretence of objectivity in celebrating the 'fall' of Tripoli -
- Friday, Aug 19, 2011
ZNet Article 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 -
- Monday, Mar 22, 2010
ZNet Article If we direct our focus to the heart of our “robot vehicles”, what will we find? Well what +could+ we possibly find? Just transistors, microchips, hydraulics. When we look into the eyes of our loved one and she smiles, we feel a warmth in our heart... -
- Friday, Jan 15, 2010
ZNet Article On December 14, The Times announced that it had obtained documents about Iran’s nuclear program that revealed “a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator. This is the component of a nuclear weapon that triggers the explosionâ€. (Leading art... -
- Thursday, Oct 02, 2008
ZNet Article 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.” -
- Friday, Sep 12, 2008
ZNet Article 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... -
- Sunday, Jul 13, 2008
ZNet Article 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. -
- Thursday, Oct 18, 2007
ZNet Article 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... -
- Tuesday, Jul 24, 2007
ZNet Article 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 ... - All Articles
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