Media
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BBC BLOCKS AID TO GAZA: PROTEST 24 JANUARY BRING DOLLS TO LAY OUTSIDE THE BBC BRING SHOES WITH A MESSAGE FOR GORDON BROWN
If the BBC was not tarnished enough by its coverage of Israel’s attack on Gaza — in the words of Tony Benn, “often looking like a propaganda wing of the Zionist lobby” — its decision yesterday to block an appeal for emergency aid to Gaza would be reason enough for making the BBC a focus… Continue reading
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Israel Recruits Army Of Bloggers To Troll Anti-War Websites
According to a report in Haaretz, the Immigrant Absorption Ministry is setting up `an army of bloggers` who will `represent` Israel on `anti-Zionist blogs` in English, French, Spanish and German. Continue reading
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How Israel’s Propaganda Machine Works by James Zogby (Middle East Online)
When events and reality break through, contradicting the Israeli-established narrative, creating stories that run counter to the imposed story line, the propaganda machine works overtime to deny, deny, deny Continue reading
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Media Advisory: International Law Seldom Newsworthy in Gaza War
The idea that leaders of a military or government force being alumni of a particular school makes that school a military target is not one U.S. media would take seriously in most contexts. The CIA often recruits officers from Yale; does that make Yale a legitimate military target? Continue reading
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Why the Internet Weakens the Authority of the Press By Jay Rosen
In the age of mass media, the press was able to define the sphere of legitimate debate with relative ease because the people on the receiving end were atomized Continue reading
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Richard Kastelein: IFJ Calls for Global Protest Over Media Blockade
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on the journalism world to raise its voice in protest over Israeli government pressure on media trying to cover the Gaza conflict. Continue reading
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Dan Alba – Will AP Ever Stop Lying for Israel?
On January 9, The Associated Press released a report titled “A look at the Islamic militant Hamas group.” Like virtually all AP reports on Israel-Palestine, it is loaded with examples of journalistic malpractice: omission of the most basic and vital facts, use of the most sensationalistic or flatly wrong language, contradictions, and untruths. Continue reading
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Raanan Shaked: Bomb it yourself
You calmly go into Hot’s VOD and there on the main menu waiting for you is the category of Cast Lead. You select it and there you are — whole worlds of rich and entertaining content, courtesy of the IDF Spokesperson Office! Continue reading
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The Jerusalem Post explains why Israel has gotten such ‘good’ media coverage
This first-hand experience of life under rocket fire may be one of the reasons Israeli diplomats and spokesmen feel Israel is finally getting a hearing in the international media. Continue reading
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Shiko Behar: NY times: Who Ended the 6 Month Cease-fire in Israel/Palestine?
While the editors of the New York Times assign the blame conveniently and squarely on Hamas, this nevertheless remains a factually erroneous statement contradicting reporting by Israeli newspapers (in both Hebrew and English), British press, Amnesty International and – perhaps curiously enough – November 2008 reporting by the NYT itself. Continue reading
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Gaza media blackout
The blockade of Gaza has now been extended to the media In this week’s News Divide we turn our attention to the Israeli blockade of Gaza, which has now been extended to the media, creating a news blackout that has severely restricted the reporting of the suffering in Gaza to the outside world. In the… Continue reading
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Dahr Jamail: As Usual, the NYT Ignores Iraqi Opinion; Anecdotes trump polls on withdrawal
Despite the mea culpa, though, the Times continues to mislead on Iraq, particularly on the issue of whether or not Iraqis want the U.S. military to exit their country. Continue reading
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Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2008
Now in their seventeenth year, the P.U.-litzer Prizes recognize some of the nation’s stinkiest media performances. As the judges for these annual awards, we do our best to identify the most deserving recipients of this unwelcome plaudit. Continue reading
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Recent Pictures From BAGnewsNotes
BAGnewsNotes offers a daily analysis of news images from a progressive point of view. The BAG calls out media bias, breaks down right wing visual propaganda, and helps turn its readers into sharper “visual consumers.” Continue reading
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Journalist Amira Haas Arrested entering Israel
Hass, the child of Holocaust survivors, became the first and only Israeli journalist to be ever based in Gaza, moving there in 1993 to live and work. Today, she is still the only Israeli journalist to based in the Occupied Palestinian Territories moving to Ramallah in 1997. Continue reading
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BBC: Brown ‘psychologically insecure’
Psychotherapist Lucy Beresford tells Daily Politics Gordon Brown is ‘deeply insecure’ and bringing Peter Mandelson back was “Freudian” bordering on “self-mutilating behaviour”. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1818568 more about "BBC: Brown ‘psychologically insecure’", posted with vodpod Continue reading
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David McKnight: Rupert Murdoch has been one of the world’s most effective supporters of conservative ideas
Most businessmen avoid discussing politics publicly and media owners all the more so, since their businesses are the vehicles for the national conversation about politics. Not so Rupert. Murdoch and his media outlets have been at the forefront of the philosophical and political revolution constituted by free-market thinking. Continue reading
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The Real News Network – Israel, Palestine and the media
Mordecai Briemberg on battle over satire, media concentration and coverage of Israel PT2/2 http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1770526 more about “The Real News Network – Israel, Pales…“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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The Real News Network – Media giant tries to muzzle parody
http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1767746 In early November, Canadian media giant Canwest Mediaworks dropped its lawsuit against Mordecai Briemberg, a lawsuit which alleged that he infringed on Canwest’s trademark rights. The case pertained to the creation of a parody of one of Canwest’s many papers, the Vancouver Sun. The parody satirized what its creators see as Canwest’s biased coverage… Continue reading
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Stephen Lendman: Ongoing attacks on Hugo Chavez
Since taking office in February 1999, America’s dominant media have relentlessly attacked Chavez because of the good example he represents and threat it might spread in spite of scant chance it will in today’s climate. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 