No, Corbyn doesn’t need to win over the MSM – he needs to talk directly to the people
by BlackCatte Corbyn’s best endorsement, both of his integrity and his potential power, is the media hate being poured on him; and his best – in fact his only...
Nick Cohen wants us to forget the west uses chemical weapons
Yesterday in the Guardian Nick Cohen could be found using his talents to shill for more lovely humanitarian war. Nothing odd about that. The MSM almost always shills for...
Jeremy Corbyn’s Victory Highlights the Power BTL
Jeremy Corbyn won the Labour leadership election. You probably heard. He wasn't supposed to win - he wasn't even supposed to run - but he did it. Not only...
OffGuardian tells Jessica Valenti why ‘Comment is Free’ matters (because she apparently doesn’t know)
by BlackCatte The Guardian is unraveling. Having tried to manage its own readers with draconian moderation, it now admits even that policy is a humiliating failure and – today...
Luke Harding : the hack who came in from the cold
Catte Black Luke Daniel Harding (born 1968) studied English at University College, Oxford. While there he edited the student newspaper Cherwell. He worked for The Sunday Correspondent, the Evening...
The Guardian’s faux progressiveness
by E.F Nicholson Whether we like it or not, our ever increasing participation in the world of consumption allows us to be sliced and diced by advertisers into increasingly...
Why has one small child’s horrific death been turned into a media event and war cry? – UPDATED
As we predicted the ghastly tragedy of little Aylan is now unquestionably being exploited with psychopathic cynicism to re-launch the call for war in Syria. The lies about chemical...
Guardian and NYTimes Completely Misrepresent China’s Military Parade
by Joaquin Flores via Russia Insider Chinese leadership knows what China can do, has done, and what it represents to the world. China apparently felt it unnecessary to ‘over-project’...
The Guardian: “bomb Assad and save the refugees”
by BlackCatte The Guardian is currently providing us with a good example of what is often called the “problem-reaction-solution” method of controlling public discourse. Step One: Find, create, emphasise,...
Dear Guardian editors: this is why no one believes you anymore
by BlackCatte Dear Guardian editors, especially the Anonymous Perpetrator of Sunday’s Guardian view on Ukraine – While this is just the latest on the conveyor-belt of state-promoted Stalinist ‘alternative...
The Guardian’s frantic Corbyn-hate — now it’s just sad
What Corbyn actually said… Some women have raised with me that a solution to the rise in assault and harassment on public transport could be to introduce women only...
Agenda screen cap: August 22 2015
Just a brief glimpse of the ongoing narrative creation and control as revealed by the front page of the Guardian. So, what do we have here? 1) Despite the...
Socks, sandals and ISIS: the lame tragedy of the Guardian’s anti-Corbyn campaign
My greatest problem with the Graun's propaganda is that it's bad, and yet thinks it isn't. Even more so than the lamentable coverage of Russia and Ukraine, the...
Jonathan Freedland and the “Price Tag”
by LeanToTheLeft A response by CiFer “LeanToTheLeft” to the Guardian article “Israel’s hawks can’t dodge blame for this day of violence” “Israel’s hawks can’t dodge blame for this day...
The Graun continues to pretend the RS rally in Kiev didn’t happen
On the day that Right Sector ran an anti-government rally in Kiev – an event big and alarming enough to even be reported by the Kyiv Post – this...
The “radicals” are coming! The “radicals” are coming!
by BlackCatte The Guardian’s latest piece on the ISIS crisis continues to eschew analysis in favour of fear mongering, propagandising and racism. Three generations of a family who are...
Patrick Cockburn wants us to be very afraid of ISIS
what we get here from Cockburn could have come straight from a White House briefing. The "culpability" he accuses the US of is the usual hand-wringing faux accusation of...
Jonathan Freedland thinks it’s time to call evil by it’s name – we agree
It's at times like this that responsible news outlets need to be the voice of reason. They need to challenge such looming cynicism, and the narratives that underpin it....
What would Orwell make of the Guardian in 2015?
Back in 2013, a not-too-bad article in the Guardian asked "What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013?".
The article didn't ask what Orwell would...
Is the Freedom Act a step forward or a cynical repackage with added tyranny?
We live in an age where image is replacing reality as the common currency in media and politics. Style and narrative have long ago triumphed over substance, and black...
