Media
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Media: The Pope and Politics By Peter Hart
15 March 2013 — FAIR Blog Argentine cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was chosen as the new pope this week. But coverage often glossed over the most intense political controversies about him. On NBC Nightly News (3/13/13), the network’s Vatican analyst George Weigel told viewers that Pope Francis was “a man of God… a man who is… Continue reading
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NEW STUDY: JOURNALISTS, EXPERTS ARE MASSIVE BULLSHITTERS
“The latest Gaza war is only a few days old, but already one conclusion can be drawn: missile defence works”. This expansive edifice of journalistic and expert analysis, pontification and reportage was based on a single source: official Israeli government statistics, which claimed a success rate for Iron Dome of approximately 84%. The BBC’s Mark… Continue reading
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Mediachannel.org Travels Back In Time
Yesterday marked the 10-year anniversary of the Iraq War Crime. In the service of memory, we have uploaded my film, WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception, in its entirety, to the Mediachannel.org website. Perhaps some of you will open the New York Times this morning to a Michael Gordon byline and then remember how slavishly he… Continue reading
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FAIR TV: Hugo Chavez in U.S. Media, Time's Path to Iran War, Keystone XL and the TV Left By Peter Hart
This week on FAIR TV: Hugo Chavez was loathed by the U.S. press–and that didn’t change when they reported his death. Plus Time magazine provides a look at the “Path to War” with Iran–omitting a key fact along the way. And the Keystone XL pipeline is back in the news. But when it came up… Continue reading
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NYT Debates Hugo Chavez–Minus the Debate By Peter Hart
“On Eve of His Funeral, Debating Chávez’s Legacy” is the headline over William Neuman’s piece in the New York Times today (3/8/13). Funny headline, since there was no one in the Times’ “debate” who argued that Chávez left much of anything. Continue reading
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Global Research – Week in Review 2 March 2013: Hollywood Revisionism and Media Manipulation
2 March, 2013 — Global Research Historic Court Hearings: The BBC in the Dock for Manipulating Evidence and Providing Biased Coverage of the September 11, 2001 Attacks 013 Continue reading
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Dead French Photographer was State Department-Funded – Embedded in Syria With Al Qaeda By Tony Cartalucci
Further indication of the depraved nature of the West’s campaign against Syria, and the depraved nature of its institutions, methods, and faux-NGOs, vindicating a growing trend of ejecting Western “journalists” and NGO’s from an ever increasing number of nations, it is revealed that a French photographer recently killed in Syria was embedded with terrorist militants… Continue reading
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The “Alternative Media” Challenges Officialdom’s Views By Colin Todhunter
The mainstream media is under threat. And the threat is in the form of what is known as the ‘alternative media’. Decades ago, the ‘underground’ media took the form of pamphlets and booklets. These days, it’s no longer ‘underground’ and you don’t need money to cover print and distribution costs. It’s very much alive and… Continue reading
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The “Alternative Media” Challenges Officialdom’s Views By Colin Todhunter
The mainstream media is under threat. And the threat is in the form of what is known as the ‘alternative media’. Decades ago, the ‘underground’ media took the form of pamphlets and booklets. These days, it’s no longer ‘underground’ and you don’t need money to cover print and distribution costs. It’s very much alive and… Continue reading
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The NYT's Problem With Leftist Presidents By Peter Hart
Left-wing Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa was poised to win re-election on Sunday. Give that fact, the New York Times went with a peculiar headline for their February 16 piece Continue reading
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Media: Tom Friedman's Apple Hunch By Peter Hart
New York Times columnist Tom Friedman is, for reasons that remain entirely unclear, considered a wise man in elite media circles. His columns and books are read by others in the business, who then turn around and pretend they know something because they read it in a Tom Friedman column. Continue reading
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Media Advisory: Media and the Keystone March
Tens of thousands of climate activists marched in Washington D.C.on February 17. Did the corporate media notice them? Continue reading
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NYT Rewrites a (formerly) Accurate Occupation Headline By Peter Hart
Non-violent protesters came up with a novel way to protest Israeli plans to build more settlement colonies in the occupied West Bank: They occupied the land themselves. The Bab Al Shams tents went up on Friday on privately owned Palestinian land in what Israel designates as the E1 part of the West Bank. Israel’s announcement… Continue reading
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Are Iranian Magnets the New Aluminum Tubes? By Peter Hart
In the run up to the Iraq War, the New York Times (9/8/02) famously reported on an Iraqi scheme to procure special aluminum tubes that could only have one purpose: Iraq’s secret nuclear weapons program. Saddam Hussein was attempting to “buy thousands of specially designed aluminum tubes,” and the “diameter, thickness and other technical specifications… Continue reading
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Historic Court Case Against the BBC’s Cover Up of 9/11 Evidence
The BBC is being challenged strongly for its refusal to present to the British public the available scientific evidence which contradicts the official version of events of 9/11. Thank you very much to all those who have sent letters to their MPs asking that the BBC be held to account for withholding this evidence that… Continue reading
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An 'Informal Arrangement' to Not Report the News By Peter Hart
Today the Washington Post (2/6/13) reported some news that it’s known for years, but had decided not tell us until now: The CIA has a drone base in Saudi Arabia. Continue reading
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Where Are They Now? The Reporters Who Got Iraq So Wrong By Peter Hart
Ten years ago today, Colin Powell made the Bush administration’s case for going to war against Iraq. Much of what he said about Iraq’s threats to the United States was false. But the media coverage gave the opposite impression, and most of the pundits and journalists who promoted the justifications for the war paid no… Continue reading
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When It Comes to Drones, Trust the Churchgoing CIA Director By Peter Hart
Chris Matthews (MSNBC) appeared rather uncomfortable with the topic, ultimately deciding that the policy was defensible–on the grounds that the CIA director Leon Panetta goes to church Continue reading
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When 'Confirmed' Means 'An Official Told Me So' By Peter Hart
On January 30, reports emerged that Israel had carried out an airstrike on Syrian targets near Damascus. Much of the initial reporting took Israel’s claims at face value, though it appeared impossible to confirm that the story was true. A reader might conclude, based on some of the more credulous accounts of this strike, that… Continue reading
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PBS Ombud, Nova Disagree on Drone Disclosure
PBS ombud Michael Getler (1/31/13) responded to FAIR activists who wrote to him about the recent Nova special on drones (1/23/13) that was underwritten by Lockheed Martin, a major military contractor and drone manufacturer. Continue reading
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