The New Dark Age

1 September 2019 — Coldtype

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This issue’s main stories:

* Files show how MI5 spied on World in Action – Stephen Dorril on the fear of left wing media bias by spooks

* ‘Naked Propaganda” -Tim Gopsill on the BBC Panorama programme ‘Is labour Antisemitic?’

* Why we must fight to defend Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning – Barry White

• Boris’s Brexit media backers – Nick Jones tells how right wing media proprietors used new PM to spearhead campaign to take Britain out of Europe

* The old and the new – John Toner on the challenges and changes facing Scottish media

* Book reviews – Shafted: The media, the Miners’ Strike and the ftermath (new edition), and Full Spectrum Mendacity

* Plus more news and information

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