June 2007
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Whose culture is it anyway? By William Bowles
29 June, 2007 “And so, the end of the Blairite decade. Tributes, applause and a standing ovation at PM’s Question Time. Gushing reflections from fellow politicians and sundry acolytes. And, of course, the whole panoply of deferential BBC coverage replete with helicopter ‘reportage’ of official cars going to and from the Palace. How abjectly depressing, Continue reading
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Media Lens: Chavez and RCTV – Tilting the Balance Against the ‘Bad Guy’
As we have previously reported* Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has long been demonised by the Western media as a “leftist firebrand” (The Independent), “Venezuela’s demagogue” (Washington Post), and as a “militaristic strongman” (Financial Times). No surprise, then, that Chavez’s decision not to renew the licence of Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) has elicited outrage across Britain… Continue reading
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One square metre and a stool By William Bowles
8 June 2007 ‘All the freaky people make the beauty of the world’ — ‘All The Freaky People,’ Michael Franti & Spearhead For the most part, television is crap, driven as it is either by commercial interests or in the case of the state-run network, by something that tries to mimic the demographically driven commercial Continue reading
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In His Master’s Voice – The BBC’s Mark Urban does a hatchet job on Media Lens By William Bowles
4 June 2007 I don’t know how many readers follow the exchanges between the BBC and other mainstream media outlets and Medialens (there are number of them archived here in the Media section of the site but please do pay a visit to their site). There’s no doubt that ML perform a valuable service by Continue reading
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Media Lens: Illegal, Immoral, Unwinnable – A British Army Oofficer Replies to Mark Urban
1 June 2007 — Media Lens Yesterday, in response to our latest Media Alert, ‘Newsnight Diplomatic Editor Mark Urban Responds,’ we received a further reply from Mark Urban. Urban argued that our analysis “is put together by you sitting at home, sifting current events through a dense filter of ideology”. In particular, he lampooned our Continue reading
The New Dark Age 