Media
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IFJ Condemns NATO Bombing at Libyan Television
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the NATO air strikes against Libyan state television which took place last Saturday in Tripoli, killing three journalists and injured fifteen staff members according to its director of the English service, Khalid Basilia. Continue reading
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Lies and Media Manipulations regarding the Protest Movement in Syria By Pierre Piccinin
The following article focusses on the Protest movement in Syria in mid-July. it does not cover recent events. It nonetheless suggests that mainstream media sources are systematically manipulating the relevant numbers Continue reading
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As In Serbia And Elsewhere, U.S. And NATO Target Media In Libya
This is not the first time that NATO and the U.S. have targeted journalists and media outlets. Other incidents included the deliberate targeting of journalists in occupied territories in the Middle East, the NATO bombardment of Radio Television Serbia (RTS) in Belgrade in 1999 and the American army bombing in Kabul and Baghdad of Al… Continue reading
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New moves by British parliament to shield the Murdochs By Robert Stephens
The Murdochs rely on the fact that the British political elite and the police are seeking at all costs to prevent a serious investigation of the hacking of thousands of phones and the bribing of police officers, and block the bringing of criminal charges against the guilty. Continue reading
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The Israel Lobby’s Power Comes From the American Ruling Class
“Prince Walid bin Talal bin Abdelaziz Al-Saud, the second biggest shareholder in News Corporation after Murdoch, recently gave an interview, on his yacht, to the BBC flagship programme Newsnight. The Saudi prince declared himself “a good friend” of Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch Continue reading
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The best of FAIR’s Blog 29 July 2011
29 July 2011 — Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting Here’s some of the week’s best media criticism from the FAIR Blog Obama’s Right-Wing Plan to Win the Center Diallo Speaks: Are There Holes in the ‘DSK Case Crumbles’ Narrative? Tom Friedman’s Radical Center, 2012 Edition For Beck, Norway Shooter Wasn’t Right-Wing–Though His Victims Were ‘Hitler… Continue reading
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Unauthorised tapping into or hacking of mobile communications
Thirteenth Report of Session 2010–12 House of Commons Home Affairs Committee Continue reading
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News International: A scandal rooted in union-busting
Socialist journalist Eamonn McCann explains how the assault on newspaper unions helped pave the way for the scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. Continue reading
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What WaPo Won't Tell You About CIA's Yemen Drone Base By Peter Hart
It obviously makes senses for any White House to want to keep its secret programs under wraps–particularly when there’s a chance that laws are being broken, or civilians are being killed. (Recall that the U.S. Navy launched a cruise missile loaded with cluster bombs into Yemen in 2009, reportedly killing 41 civilians.) It does not… Continue reading
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What WaPo Won’t Tell You About CIA’s Yemen Drone Base By Peter Hart
It obviously makes senses for any White House to want to keep its secret programs under wraps–particularly when there’s a chance that laws are being broken, or civilians are being killed. (Recall that the U.S. Navy launched a cruise missile loaded with cluster bombs into Yemen in 2009, reportedly killing 41 civilians.) It does not… Continue reading
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‘Dirty Digger’ Murdoch Newslinks 26-27 July 2011
27 July 2011 — williambowles.info 27 July 2011 Murdochs were given secret defence briefingsThe Independent – Media RSS Feed Today at MidnightThe extraordinary access that Cabinet ministers granted Rupert Murdoch and his children was revealed for the first time yesterday, with more than two dozen private meetings between the family and senior members of the… Continue reading
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The Development of "Privacy Killing Technologies": A Link to the Murdoch Scandal? By Tom Burghardt
Following revelations earlier this year by The Tech Herald that security firms with close ties to the Pentagon ran black ops for major U.S. banks and corporations, it became clear that proprietary software developed for the military and U.S. intelligence was being used to target Americans. Continue reading
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The Development of “Privacy Killing Technologies”: A Link to the Murdoch Scandal? By Tom Burghardt
Following revelations earlier this year by The Tech Herald that security firms with close ties to the Pentagon ran black ops for major U.S. banks and corporations, it became clear that proprietary software developed for the military and U.S. intelligence was being used to target Americans. Continue reading
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I’m starting to think that the Left might actually be right By Charles Moore
Throwing off the chains: in the late 1970s, the circulation of Murdoch’s Thatcher-supporting Sun overtook that of the ever-Labour Daily Mirror – I’m starting to think that the Left might actually be right Continue reading
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FAIR: Seeing ‘Islamic Terror’ in Norway
Right-wing terror suspect Anders Behring Breivik reportedly killed 76 people in Norway on Friday, by all accounts driven by far-right anti-immigrant politics and fervent Islamophobia. But many early media accounts assumed that the perpetrator of the attacks was Muslim. Continue reading
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Craig Murray: Bent Judges
It is astonishing that Judge Leverson accepted the leadership of the inquiry into News International when he had at least twice been a guest in Elisabeth Murdoch’s home. Continue reading
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Murdoch’s World: Demagoguery, Propaganda, Scandal, Sleaze and Warmongering By Stephen Lendman
For sure Murdoch sustained a body blow. Calling it coup de grace strength, however, exaggerates how News Corp will be affected. It likely will survive long after its aging head steps down, but imagine a Murdoch-free media landscape. Then imagine freedom from all managed and junk food news. Tune out and make it happen. Continue reading
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