Three New Reads – December
Philip Roddis What would you do if stuck in a lift with John Pilger? Former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, in a new book reviewed here by Media Lens, quotes...
Three New Reads – December
Philip Roddis And so this is Christmas, what have you done? The old year is over, a new one just begun. Well, almost. I can’t alas, offer much in...
Amazon Burning? – well maybe not so much
Today on Twitter OffG stepped into the current panic-inferno and thick forest of screaming hashtags that is the "Amazon Forest Fire Crisis." The results were thought-provoking. The mainstream media...
Book Review: Propaganda Blitz – How Corporate Media Distort Reality
We’ve heard a good deal of late about Western democracy, and I for one don’t knock it. I think it an excellent idea, but wouldn’t it require an informed...
Wikipedia disappears article on “Philip Cross” & life-bans author
Wkipedia contributor “Mojito Paraiso” recently tried the experiment of creating an entry for “Philip Cross” the apparently pseudonymous editor/contributor who has been a persistent defamer/disinfo source, making rapid-fire and...
Media Lens skewers Monbiot’s Syria nonsense
The always incisive people at Media Lens have just done an excellent job exposing the most recent media campaign for a NATO invasion of Syria as the dangerous, sub-intelligent...
Menwith Menace: Britain’s Complicity In Saudi Arabia’s Terror Campaign Against Yemen
from Media Lens The ‘mainstream’ Western media is, almost by definition, the last place to consult for honest reporting of Western crimes. Consider the appalling case of Yemen which...
‘Let’s Bring In Our Pentagon Spokesman’ – Bombing Syria
from Media Lens One of the great Freudian slips of our time was supplied by a Fox News anchor on March 24, 1999, as Nato was preparing to wage...
Testing the limits – Paul Krugman of the NYT and Gary Younge of the Guardian
from MediaLens Paul Krugman and Gary Younge are two of the most honest commentators currently writing in two of the best American and British newspapers. The extent of their...
RT’s Paula Slier leaves Ukraine following call for her arrest, death threats — RT
by Systematic RT reports: RT correspondent Paula Slier, who covered the fire near the Chernobyl nuclear station, has left Ukraine after a local journalist urged security services to detain...
How Western media would cover Baltimore if it happened elsewhere — WP blog
by Systematic A screenshot from In The Now, a program on Russia’s state-sponsored RT network, shows a protester in Kiev in winter 2014 beside one in Baltimore on Monday,...
Hillary Clinton: Of Glass Ceilings & Shattered Countries
From Media Lens We live in a time when compassionate rhetoric is used as a weapon of state-corporate control. The rhetoric focuses on ethical concerns such as racial, gender...
EU Wages War Against Russian News Agencies
Sputnik International writes: […] why does the EU feel so uncomfortable that Europeans have started to read alternative sources of information? Isn’t it a good thing that people have...
Love for Libya: 2011-2015
From Media Lens Islamic State’s horrific mass beheading of 21 Coptic Christians last month forced a reluctant UK media system to return to Libya, scene of saturation news coverage...
