John Pilger
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MEDIA LENS: INTELLECTUAL CLEANSING: PART 1 – Keeping The Media Safe For Big Business
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media October 2, 2008 Martin Tierney is one of a tiny number of mainstream journalists willing to review our book, ‘Guardians of Power’. In June 2006, he published an accurate outline of our argument in the Herald, commenting: “It stands up to scrutiny.” He added Continue reading
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Media Lens wins the Gandhi Foundation Peace Award And An Appeal For Support
The Gandhi Foundation Peace Award And An Appeal For Support MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media November 13, 2007 We are happy to report that we will be accepting the Gandhi Foundation International Peace Award on December 2. See here: http://www.gandhifoundation.org/peaceaward.html Continue reading
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How Truth Slips Down the Memory Hole by John Pilger
Source: Antiwar.com One of the leaders of demonstrations in Gaza calling for the release of the BBC reporter Alan Johnston was a Palestinian news cameraman, Imad Ghanem. On 5 July, he was shot by Israeli soldiers as he filmed them invading Gaza. A Reuters video shows bullets hitting his body as he lay on the Continue reading
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Media Lens Guest: Freedom Next Time – An Extract from John Pilger’s New Book
John Pilger’s new book, Freedom Next Time (Bantam Press, 2006; www.johnpilger.com/) has just been published. Containing chapters on Diego Garcia, Palestine, India, South Africa and Afghanistan, it is a devastating indictment of brutal state-corporate power, and a heartening account of how people around the world are challenging that power. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Iraq Body Count – A shame becoming shameful
10 April 2006 — Media Lens John Pilger And A Leading Epidemiologist Challenge IBC Noam Chomsky once observed: “If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you’re doing something wrong.” (www.journalism.sfsu.edu/www/pubs/gater/spring95/apr27/chom.htm) One indication that the Iraq Body Count (IBC) project is doing something wrong is that it is deemed, not merely inoffensive, Continue reading
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Media Lens: Alert: The Guff of Tonkin Incident – Silence, Secrecy and Book Reviews
Consider, for example, the issue of book reviews. What could be a less threatening or problematic area for the media? Surely it is inconceivable that literary editors would bother to suppress reviews of books written from ‘controversial’ perspectives. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Smearing Chomsky – The Guardian Backs Down
On November 4, we published a Media Alert, ‘Smearing Chomsky’, detailing the Guardian’s October 31 interview with Noam Chomsky by Emma Brockes. The alert produced the biggest ever response from Media Lens readers – many hundreds of emails were sent to the newspaper. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Walking Over Corpses – The New Statesman and the Guardian on Voting Labour
In the New Statesman, the editor declares that despite “Mr Blair’s prosecution of a murderous, illegal war” two considerations “compel a Labour vote on 5 May”. Not a strategic vote, notice, not a vote to rein in and punish Blair without empowering the Tories – we are compelled simply to vote Labour. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Naked Empire– Part 2: Mainstream Reviews of Books by Andrew Marr, Jon Snow and John Pilger
Readers of our Media Alerts will be well aware of John Pilger’s view of the media and establishment power more generally. He reserves a special place in his articles for the deceptions of the ‘liberal’ press. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Naked Empire Part 1 – Mainstream Reviews of Books by Andrew Marr, Jon Snow and John Pilger
In this two-part Media Alert we will test a simple claim: that elite journalists promote a fraudulent version of the world shaped by the powerful interests of which they are a part. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 