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• InI 11:23 on March 26, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: advertising ( 24 ), BBC ( 391 ), CO2 ( 5 ), corporate ( 256 ), corporations ( 78 ), Daily Mail ( 35 ), David Cromwell ( 20 ), environment ( 58 ), Haaretz ( 31 ), journalists ( 186 ), media lens, New Scientist ( 4 ), news ( 1,237 ), propaganda ( 169 ), War ( 1,465 )   

  Media Lens: Heading For A Different Planet By David Cromwell 

  26 March 2013 — Media Lens

  Global Warming, Propaganda-Journalism And The Definition Of Insanity

  The systematic propaganda of the corporate media – its deep-rooted antipathy towards upholding proper journalistic standards in the public interest – extends to its coverage of human-induced climate change. The Independent recently delivered a masterpiece of headline obfuscation with: ‘World cools on global warming as green fatigue sets in.’

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• InI 13:42 on March 18, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Blair ( 115 ), corporate ( 256 ), Greenspan ( 9 ), history ( 230 ), Iraq ( 1,284 ), journalists ( 186 ), media lens, parliament ( 40 ), Syria ( 1,525 ), UK ( 555 ), UN ( 1,125 ), US ( 3,471 ), War ( 1,465 ), weapons ( 371 ), WMD ( 52 )   

  The Iraq War Was Not A Media Failure By David Edwards 

  18 March 2013 — Media Lens

  Ten years ago today, on March 18, 2003, Tony Blair delivered a speech to parliament prior to a vote that resulted in MPs authorising war on Iraq. The war began two days later.

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• InI 11:26 on March 13, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: America ( 705 ), BBC ( 391 ), Chomsky ( 93 ), corporate ( 256 ), coup ( 63 ), history ( 230 ), Hugo Ch ( 28 ), media lens, military ( 1,311 ), poverty ( 66 ), Reagan ( 39 ), UK ( 555 ), US ( 3,471 ), Venezuela ( 193 ), War ( 1,465 )   

  Death Of A Bogeyman – The Corporate Media Bury Hugo Chávez By David Edwards 

  13 March 2013 — Media Lens

  Following the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez on March 5, the BBC reported from the funeral:

  ‘More than 30 world leaders attended the ceremony, including Cuban President Raul Castro, Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus.

  ‘A message was read out from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.’

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• InI 15:36 on March 5, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Afghanistan ( 1,013 ), BBC ( 391 ), Blair ( 115 ), Britain ( 267 ), corporate ( 256 ), David Cromwell ( 20 ), democracy ( 301 ), Downing Street ( 6 ), Iran ( 1,267 ), Iraq ( 1,284 ), Los Angeles ( 41 ), media lens, news ( 1,237 ), Power Without Responsibility ( 3 ), War ( 1,465 )   

  Media Lens: BBC Newsnight, Iraq And The Export Of Democracy By David Cromwell 

  5 March 2013 — Media Lens

  It is a prerequisite for corporate journalists that they respect the ideological conventions of their paymasters and of state power – a vital source of ‘news‘ and ‘informed’ comment, after all. At the same time, the corporate journalist likes to project a self-serving image as a valiant investigator, a champion of democracy, and a facilitator of fair and balanced debate. All too often, of course, the public can see through the charade.

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• InI 18:13 on February 26, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: 2012 ( 1,388 ), competition ( 16 ), corporate ( 256 ), David Cromwell ( 20 ), history ( 230 ), media lens, music ( 37 ), Part One ( 13 ), right ( 621 ), War ( 1,465 )   

  Media Lens: ‘The Special One’ – Part 2: Looking Under The Lamppost By David Edwards 

  26 February 2013 — Media Lens 

  There is an emptiness at the core of our being. The ego’s great task is to fill that emptiness with evidence that we are ‘someone’ rather than ‘nobody’, that we are ‘special’. But no matter how hard we try, our achievements continue to fall and vanish into the void.

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  ‘The Special One’ – Celebrity, Comedy And Spiritual Egotism – Part 1 By David Edwards « William Bowles.info is discussing. Toggle Comments

   

• InI 18:12 on February 12, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: 2012 ( 1,388 ), Chris Hedges ( 27 ), Climate ( 123 ), corporate ( 256 ), David Cromwell ( 20 ), disinformation ( 17 ), journalism ( 79 ), media lens, newspapers ( 17 ), Obama ( 1,159 ), the Independent ( 46 ), US ( 3,471 )   

  Forever Groundhog Day For Climate? A Tale Of Ice, Smokescreens And Rebellion By David Cromwell 

  12 February 2013 – Media Lens

  A spectacular event captured on film in a new documentary, ‘Chasing Ice’, depicts the stark impact of global warming on the Arctic. The stunning sequence shows the largest glacier calving event ever filmed. An on-screen graphic emphasises the huge scale of the ice collapse: Continue reading this...

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• InI 18:16 on February 7, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: 2012 ( 1,388 ), advertising ( 24 ), BBC ( 391 ), Chomsky ( 93 ), corporate ( 256 ), David Edwards ( 20 ), Downing Street ( 6 ), Iraq ( 1,284 ), journalists ( 186 ), left ( 327 ), Manufacturing Consent ( 10 ), media lens, right ( 621 ), Trade ( 64 ), UK ( 555 )   

  Jousting With Toothpicks – The Case For Challenging Corporate Journalism By David Edwards 

  7 February 2013 — Media Lens

  Jousting With Toothpicks – The Case For Challenging Corporate Journalism 

  A critic responding to a recent alert, objected to our use of the term ‘corporate journalist’:

  ‘The problem is it has no clear meaning. Chomsky regularly writes for “corporate media”, as does Pilger, Klein, and Michael Moore. Pilger has had his documentaries aired by “corporate media”. Klein promotes her books through the “corporate media”. I could go on…’

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• InI 15:41 on January 31, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Cartoon ( 11 ), Chomsky ( 93 ), David Cromwell ( 20 ), discrimination ( 10 ), Gaza ( 1,394 ), Haaretz ( 31 ), Israel ( 2,908 ), media lens, Murdoch ( 101 ), Netanyahu ( 194 ), news ( 1,237 ), peace ( 227 ), Sunday Times ( 17 ), US ( 3,471 )   

  Cartoon Politics: Rupert Murdoch, The Pro-Israel Lobby And Israel’s Crimes By David Cromwell 

  31 January 2013 — Media Lens

  A crucial element of pro-Israel political lobbying is the reprehensible smearing of justified criticism of the Israeli state as ‘antisemitic’. Thus, a recent cartoon by Gerald Scarfe in the Sunday Times provided a convenient target for outrage.

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• InI 13:23 on January 24, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: anniversary ( 48 ), atrocities ( 32 ), Chomsky ( 93 ), corporate ( 256 ), Disciplined Minds ( 2 ), England ( 33 ), George Orwell ( 8 ), Iraq ( 1,284 ), journalists ( 186 ), media lens, War ( 1,465 )   

  Eyes Like Blank Discs – The Guardian’s Steven Poole On George Orwell’s Politics And The English Language By: David Edwards 

  24 January 2013 — Media Lens

  January 21, ‘Orwell Day’, marked the 63rd anniversary of George Orwell’s death, Steven Poole notes in the Guardian. To commemorate 110 years since Orwell was born (June 25), BBC radio will broadcast a series about his life while Penguin will publish a new edition of his essay, ‘Politics and the English Language’. This essay, Poole comments, is Orwell’s ‘most famous shorter work, and probably the most wildly overrated of any of his writings’.

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• InI 18:31 on January 14, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: AP ( 142 ), Columbia ( 14 ), Daily Express ( 2 ), Daily Mirror ( 5 ), Daily Star ( 7 ), David Cromwell ( 20 ), Foreign Affairs ( 19 ), Iraq ( 1,284 ), Los Angeles ( 41 ), media lens, military ( 1,311 ), Review ( 149 ), soldiers ( 215 ), The Times ( 71 ), War ( 1,465 )   

  Death Of A Hero By David Cromwell 

  14 January 2013 — Media Lens

  The General, The Media Adulation And The Forgotten Victims

  One measure of a society’s honesty is what it says about its political and military leaders when they die. Are the deceased leader’s perceived virtues exalted, while any blemishes are airbrushed out of the picture? Recent media coverage following the death of General Norman “Stormin’ ”Schwarzkopf, the Allied military commander during the Persian Gulf War in 1991, is a case in point.

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• InI 15:20 on December 18, 2012 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: 2012 ( 1,388 ), BBC ( 391 ), class ( 236 ), Climate ( 123 ), corporate ( 256 ), corporations ( 78 ), David Cromwell ( 20 ), democracy ( 301 ), Golden Rule ( 2 ), media lens, nature ( 79 ), New York ( 498 ), NGOs ( 33 ), York Times ( 211 )   

  The Illusion Of Democracy By David Cromwell 

  18 December, 2012 — Media Lens

  Liberal Journalism, Wikileaks And Climate Deceptions

  In an era of permanent war, economic meltdown and climate ‘weirding’, we need all the champions of truth and justice that we can find. But where are they? What happened to trade unions, the green movement, human rights groups, campaigning newspapers, peace activists, strong-minded academics, progressive voices? We are awash in state and class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>corporate propaganda, with the ‘liberal’ media a key cog in the apparatus. Continue reading this...

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• InI 16:45 on December 12, 2012 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: BBC ( 391 ), Fooled Again ( 2 ), gas ( 124 ), Iraq ( 1,284 ), media lens, military ( 1,311 ), Murdoch ( 101 ), New York ( 498 ), Syria ( 1,525 ), The Times ( 71 ), US ( 3,471 ), War ( 1,465 ), weapons ( 371 ), WMD ( 52 ), York Times ( 211 )   

  Won’t Get Fooled Again? Hyping Syria’s WMD ‘Threat’ By: David Edwards 

  12 December, 2012 — Media Lens

  Reading about crimes of state over many years, it is tempting to try to fathom the mind-set of political leaders. What actually is going on in their heads when they order sanctions that kill hundreds of thousands of children? What is in their hearts when they wage needless wars that shatter literally millions of lives? Are they desperately cruel, mindlessly stupid? Do they imagine they are living in a kind of hell where monstrous acts have to be committed to avoid even worse outcomes? Are they indifferent, focused on what will bring them short-term political and economic gain? Are they morally resigned, perceiving themselves as essentially powerless in the face of invincible political and economic forces (‘If I didn’t do it, someone else would.’)?

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• InI 14:56 on December 4, 2012 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Blair ( 115 ), comedy ( 6 ), credit ( 71 ), David Edwards ( 20 ), journalists ( 186 ), Led Zeppelin ( 2 ), media lens, religion ( 22 ), Ricky Gervais ( 2 ), right ( 621 ), Robert Pirsig ( 2 ), Spiritual Egotism ( 2 ), Twitter ( 114 )   

  ‘The Special One’ – Celebrity, Comedy And Spiritual Egotism – Part 1 By David Edwards 

  4 December 2012 — Media Lens

  It is said that God plays a joke on every new-born, whispering:

  ‘You are the special one!’

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  Media Lens: ‘The Special One’ – Part 2: Looking Under The Lamppost By David Edwards « William Bowles.info is discussing. Toggle Comments

   

• InI 11:17 on December 4, 2012 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: 2012 ( 1,388 ), Blair ( 115 ), comedy ( 6 ), corporate ( 256 ), credit ( 71 ), David Cromwell ( 20 ), David Edwards ( 20 ), journalists ( 186 ), Led Zeppelin ( 2 ), media lens, Ricky Gervais ( 2 ), right ( 621 ), Robert Pirsig ( 2 ), Spiritual Egotism ( 2 ), Twitter ( 114 )   

  Cogitation: ‘The Special One’ – Celebrity, Comedy And Spiritual Egotism By: David Edwards 

  4 December, 2012 — Media Lens

  Cogitation: ‘The Special One’ – Celebrity, Comedy And Spiritual Egotism

  By: David Edwards

  It is said that God plays a joke on every new-born, whispering:

  ‘You are the special one!’

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• InI 18:18 on November 27, 2012 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: BBC ( 391 ), Chomsky ( 93 ), Gaddafi ( 506 ), Gaza ( 1,394 ), Hamas ( 350 ), intervention ( 271 ), Israel ( 2,908 ), Libya ( 1,425 ), Manufacturing Consent ( 10 ), massacre ( 80 ), media lens, right ( 621 ), Tel Aviv ( 38 ), UK ( 555 ), War ( 1,465 )   

  ‘Flatten All Of Gaza’ – The ‘Benghazi Moment’ That Didn’t Matter By David Edwards 

  27 November, 2012 — Media Lens

  On March 30, 2011 – eleven days into Nato’s war on Libya – Professor Juan Cole wrote from his armchair at the University of Michigan:

  ‘The Libya intervention is legal [sic] and was necessary to prevent further massacres… and if it succeeds in getting rid of Qaddafi’s murderous regime and allowing Libyans to have a normal life, it will be worth the sacrifices in life and treasure. If NATO needs me, I’m there.’

  Cole thus declared himself ready to suit up and reach for the sky with Nato’s bombers. It was an extraordinary moment.

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• InI 18:43 on November 16, 2012 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: 2012 ( 1,388 ), Al Jazeera ( 58 ), BBC ( 391 ), children ( 244 ), David Cromwell ( 20 ), Gaza ( 1,394 ), Hamas ( 350 ), Intifada ( 42 ), Iraq ( 1,284 ), Israel ( 2,908 ), media lens, news ( 1,237 ), Palestinian ( 613 ), Pillar of Cloud ( 5 ), propaganda ( 169 ), War ( 1,465 )   

  Media Lens: Gaza Blitz – Turmoil And Tragicomedy At The BBC By David Cromwell and David Edwards 

  16 November, 2012 — Media Lens

  BBC News is in turmoil. Having last year dropped a report on claims of sexual abuse against the late DJ and television presenter Jimmy Savile, the flagship Newsnight programme this month wrongly implicated Tory peer Lord McAlpine in child abuse. As a result, after just 54 days in his job, the BBC director-general, George Entwistle, ‘stepped down’ on November 10. The BBC’s head of news, Helen Boaden, and her deputy, Stephen Mitchell, were then also ‘asked’ to ‘step aside’. Peter Rippon, the Newsnight editor responsible for the Savile decision, had already ’stepped aside’.

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• InI 12:52 on November 6, 2012 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: 2012 ( 1,388 ), Chomsky ( 93 ), corporate ( 256 ), David Cromwell ( 20 ), David Edwards ( 20 ), george monbiot ( 15 ), Iraq ( 1,284 ), journalists ( 186 ), media lens, right ( 621 ), Sweden ( 64 ), Twitter ( 114 )   

  ‘Sworn Enemies’? A Response To George Monbiot 

  6 November, 2012 — Media Lens

  ‘Sworn Enemies’? A Response To George Monbiot

  Hi George

  It’s good to know that your email is intended in a ‘friendly and constructive spirit’, and not as a follow-up to something you wrote of us three weeks earlier: ‘I could spend my life unpicking their falsehoods. Perhaps I should, cos no one else is.’

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• InI 17:08 on October 23, 2012 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Capitalism ( 193 ), children ( 244 ), corporate ( 256 ), David Cromwell ( 20 ), doctors ( 25 ), Love Story ( 2 ), market ( 156 ), media lens, profit ( 86 ), regulation ( 28 ), the guardian ( 54 )   

  Media Lens: Bad Pharma, Bad Journalism By David Cromwell 

  23 October, 2012 — Media Lens

  Ben Goldacre is a medical doctor and science writer who, until November 2011, wrote the Guardian’s Bad Science column which was presented as a thorn in the side of pseudoscience, quackery and ‘Big Pharma’, the giant and powerful pharmaceutical industry. On September 21, the Guardian published an extract, ‘The drugs don’t work: a modern medical scandal’, from Goldacre’s new book, Bad Pharma. (Unfortunately no longer available on the Guardian website. However, it can currently be accessed here). A disturbing picture emerges of corporate drug abuse: Continue reading this...

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• InI 17:21 on October 16, 2012 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: America ( 705 ), BBC ( 391 ), Blair ( 115 ), Britain ( 267 ), David Cameron ( 40 ), election ( 170 ), history ( 230 ), Iran ( 1,267 ), media lens, Obama ( 1,159 ), Tories ( 11 ), US ( 3,471 ), War ( 1,465 )   

  ‘But’ Or ‘And’? Reporting Chavez, Obama, Biden, Miliband, Cameron By: David Edwards 

  16 October, 2012 — Media Lens

  Liberal journalism is balanced, neutral and objective, except when it’s not. A BBC news report on Hugo Chavez’s latest election triumph in Venezuela commented: Continue reading this...

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• InI 14:39 on October 2, 2012 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: BBC ( 391 ), Britain ( 267 ), corporate ( 256 ), David Cromwell ( 20 ), disinformation ( 17 ), energy ( 97 ), land ( 208 ), media lens, news ( 1,237 ), total ( 85 ), Twitter ( 114 ), US ( 3,471 ), War ( 1,465 ), Water ( 51 )   

  The Ice Melts Into Water By David Cromwell and David Edwards 

  2 October, 2012 — Media Lens

  Arctic Ice Melt, Psychopathic Capitalism And The Corporate Media 

  Last month, climate scientists announced that Arctic sea ice had shrunk to its smallest surface area since satellite observations began in 1979. An ice-free summer in the Arctic, once projected to be more than a century away, now looks possible just a few decades from now. Some scientists say it may happen within the next few years.

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