April 8, 2016
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Media Lens: Last Chance President – Bernie Sanders And The Corporate Media
The comedian Billy Connolly once observed that politicians aren’t like the rest of us. They don’t look like us, don’t sound like us, and they rarely talk about issues that matter deeply to mere voters. Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 115 April 2016 – is now on line
2 April 2016 — Coldtype Download and read it – free of charge at www.coldtype.net REFUGEES, NOT TERRORISTS – Ben Ehrenreich ventures into the Jungle refugee camp in Calais, France, and finds . . . not terrorists, but troubled people who have fled their homes due to Western-backed aggression. In other, related, essays, Chris Hedges shows how Continue reading
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FAIR: Anonymity in the New York Times: By the Numbers
31 March 2016 — FAIR A new report from FAIR looks at a year’s worth of anonymity in the New York Times, with media critic Reed Richardson taking an in-depth look at how unnamed sources were used in the paper in 2015. His research substantiates that the observation Times public editor Margaret Sullivan made in Continue reading
The New Dark Age 