Media
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USA Today, Maddow and Iran Misinformation: Treating nuclear claims as facts
The recent elections in Iran may change some things–but inaccurate media depictions of Iran might not change much at all. Continue reading
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Intelsat suspends satellite services to Iranian TV channels
Communications satellite services provider Intelsat has announced the suspension of its services to Iranian channels, especially the English-language news network, Press TV, as the West’s campaign against free speech intensifies Continue reading
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Spinning Surveillance via Discredited NSA Talking Points By Steve Rendall
A system in which a secret program is approved behind closed doors via classified rulings would be better described as “opaque,” though Rose failed to challenge Obama on the point. Continue reading
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BBC Director General faces claims that political pressure led BBC to drop film on ‘Jewish exile’
Six leading pro-Palestinian organisations have written to the BBC’s Director General asking for answers over the pulling of a documentary which claims that the mass Jewish exodus from Jerusalem in 70 AD may never have happened. Continue reading
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BBC Director General faces claims that political pressure led BBC to drop film on ‘Jewish exile’
Six leading pro-Palestinian organisations have written to the BBC’s Director General asking for answers over the pulling of a documentary which claims that the mass Jewish exodus from Jerusalem in 70 AD may never have happened. Continue reading
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Video: Peter Hart on Analyzing and Improving Media
Danny Schecter talks to Peter Hart, Activism Director at FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting). Continue reading
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Rewriting History – Iraq and the BBC Glove Puppets By Matt Carr
I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a shallow and essentially reverential piece of telehistory. Within ten minutes I was ready to scream with frustration at the tv set, which is really a very futile activity. Continue reading
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FAIR TV 8 June 2013: Bradley Manning, Afghan Atrocity, David Gregory’s Phony Gotcha
This week: What’s the press saying about the Bradley Manning trial? We take a look at a strange CBS Evening News report about a U.S. atrocity in Afghanistan, and David Gregory thinks he found an Obama flip-flop. Continue reading
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FAIR TV 8 June 2013: Bradley Manning, Afghan Atrocity, David Gregory's Phony Gotcha
This week: What’s the press saying about the Bradley Manning trial? We take a look at a strange CBS Evening News report about a U.S. atrocity in Afghanistan, and David Gregory thinks he found an Obama flip-flop. Continue reading
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Video: Criminal and Complicit Mainstream Media
Michel Chossudovsky speaks in Kuala Lumpur (2012). Reflections on the criminal mainstream mass media after the 9/11 events and “covering up” as obstruction of justice. Continue reading
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Bradley Manning (not) on TV Network News By Peter Hart
If you care at all about war and peace, press freedom, whistleblowers’ rights and the public’s right to know what the government is doing, the trial is of enormous consequence. Continue reading
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America’s Greatest Affliction: The Presstitute Media By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
3 June 2013 — www.boilingfrogspost.com “The Entire Western Media: A Collection of Bought-and-Paid-for Whores.” When Gerald Celente branded the American media “presstitutes,” he got it right. The US print and TV media (and NPR) whore for Washington and the corporations. Reporting the real news is their last concern. The presstitutes are a Ministry of Propaganda and… Continue reading
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Suppressed By The BBC By Craig Murray
I was invited then disinvited to discuss Bradley Manning on BBC Breakfast TV this morning. I was delighted and really surprised that the BBC were prepared to give such prime media exposure to the case against the persecution of Manning. I should have realised it would not be allowed to happen. Continue reading
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“We Steal Secrets” The New Movie About Wikileaks Infuriates Wikileaks By Danny Schecter
You could say that Wikileaks, the subject of We Steal Secrets also began with a fury – a fury against war and secrecy, and was moving as fast as it could to challenge media complacency in the digital realm. Now, it is being ganged up on by a media that invariably builds you up before… Continue reading
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Video: Dan Hind: Democratizing the public sphere should be of acute interest to progressive movements
The interview was made during Dan Hind’s visit to Zagreb and participation in the Balkan Forum of the 6th Subversive Festival 4-18th May 2013 Continue reading
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Still Getting Gitmo Wrong By Peter Hart
President Barack Obama’s address yesterday on U.S. terror strategies got a lot of attention for supposedly charting a new course in America’s longest war. But some of the facts were mangled along the way. Continue reading
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Video: FAIR TV: PBS and Koch, Guatemala and the U.S. Role and Rumsfeld Meets the Press
This week: PBS won’t be showing us the documentary Citizen Koch–for some very dubious reasons. Also: The New York Times points out that the U.S. role in supporting genocide in Guatemala was hardly discussed at the trial; the same goes for U.S. media coverage of that trial. And Donald Rumsfeld goes on Meet the Press… Continue reading
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