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Media Lens 9 July, 2009: Hired Hands – Part 2: Reporting Elections In Iran And Iraq
The call for a “louder voice” of outrage from the West over the Iranian elections could hardly be more ironic. Consider the media response to the January 2005 elections in Iraq that took place under superpower military occupation in conditions of extreme violence. In Iraq the Iraqi interim government had forced the independent al-Jazeera TV… Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Left-Wing Media Fallacy Jeremy Bowen, The BBC, And Other National Treasures
There are several good reasons why the media are keen to accept that they are biased to the left. First, the overwhelming preponderance of right-wing flak machines – ‘centre-left’ parties and governments, business front groups and powerful ‘religious’ organisations – persuades media executives that they really are too left-leaning. There is just far less flak… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 