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Media Lens: Some Deaths Really Matter – The Disproportionate Coverage of Israeli And Palestinian Killings
Israeli deaths matter much more than Palestinian deaths. This has long been a distinguishing feature of Western news media reporting on the Middle East. The recent blanket coverage afforded to the brutal killing of three Israeli teenagers highlights this immutable fact. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Bias Towards Power *Is* Corporate Media ‘Objectivity’: Journalism, Floods And Climate Silence By David Cromwell
The key to what is precisely wrong with corporate journalism is explained in this nutshell by the US commentator Michael Parenti: ‘Bias in favor of the orthodox is frequently mistaken for “objectivity”. Departures from this ideological orthodoxy are themselves dismissed as ideological.’ Continue reading
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Through a glass objectively By William Bowles
The idea that there is some kind of ‘objective’ ground from which to view events, particularly of the political variety, is a long-held fantasy, especially of British journalism. It’s still taught in British universities would you believe, that out there, somewhere, there’s a space that the journalist can occupy, which sits perfectly in the middle,… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 