journalists
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Media Lens: Blocked By The BBC on Twitter By David Cromwell
Has the internet made journalists more accountable to the public? Only if media professionals are actually willing to engage with those who consume their output. In the case of the publicly-funded BBC, the onus on editors and journalists is surely all the greater. Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 18-22 June 2012: Iran / Asia / Greece /nEgypt / Ecuador / CIA / Media
23 June 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation US shopping for «lily pads» in Central Asia22.06.2012 | 10:24 | Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR The hidden agenda of the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 lay enveloped by the fog of the war for most of the past ten-year period… Even now, when the topic of discussion is the Continue reading
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Media Lens: A Private Conversation – The Leveson Inquiry, Corporate Journalism And Elite Collusion
Advertising revenue is almost the life-blood of the press. Although the figure has fallen in recent years, today it constitutes around 60 per cent of newspapers’ total income, including ‘quality’ titles like the Guardian and the Independent. Continue reading
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Not Letting The Facts Get In The Way of A Vicious Attack Against Candidates and Whistle Blowers By Danny Schechter
The parties and their factions live not only in parallel universes but worlds of information that are driven mostly but what they think will work in pandering to their bases and the public. Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘People Will Die’ – The End Of The NHS. Part 2: Buried By The BBC
Every day, researcher Éoin Clarke runs a check on the number of parts of the NHS that have been ‘carved up and offered to privateers that day. The sad news is that the NHS sell off is indeed accelerating.’ Clarke has identified 81 NHS contracts worth a total of more than £2 billion that are… Continue reading
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9th April: Iraq, Massacre of a Country By Felicity Arbuthnot
America’s 2003 assault on Iraq, already devastated by thirteen years of sanctions, infrastructure destruction consequently unrepaired from the 1991 bombing was, in the ridiculous annals of names the US military gives to their slaughter-fests, entitled: “Shock and Awe.” Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 26 March 2012 Launch of Frontex Observatory
Established in 2006 by Regulation 2004/2007, Frontex is the European Agency for the Management of the External Borders of the European Union. It coordinates and organises with Member States high-tech border control operations at sea, land and air external borders of the EU, and carries out joint return flights of irregular migrants. Its mandate was… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Constructing Consensus – The ‘Victims-And-Aggressor Meme’
Together, politics and media combine to provide an astonishingly consistent form of reality management controlling public perception of conflicts in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. Alastair Crooke, founder and director of Conflicts Forum,notes how the public is force-fed a ‘simplistic victims-and-aggressor meme, which demands only the toppling of the aggressor’. Continue reading
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Bad results of humanitarian intervention practice
Republican Senator John McCain this week called for air strikes against Damascus. According to AFP, he said that it is necessary to disable the Syrian air defense system, at least in some parts of the country, to “establish and defend safe havens in Syria”. McCain makes no attempt to conceal the purpose of these “safe… Continue reading
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‘Rebels killed Western journalists in Syria, not Assad army’
According to a source working for the office of the medical examiner in Syria, a nail was found in the skull of US journalist Marie Colvin, which proves she was killed by a handmade bomb. Continue reading
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13 undercover French army officers seized in Syria – report
According to the source, the officers were taken captive in the city of Homs – the heart of the internal conflict between forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, and insurrectionists – and are being held in a field hospital there. The source claims the French and Syrian governments are locked in negotiations over the fate… Continue reading
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Syria: Western Bloodlust Unleashed In Service Of Regime Change
Statements from Western leaders on Syria have grown harsh, if not menacing, as criticisms of the Bashar Assad government are unleashed and regime change becomes a common theme. Continue reading
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France and US arming Syrian opposition – report
A general in the opposition militia known as the Free Syria Army has told journalists that the rebels have received French and American military assistance, amid reports of worsening violence in the stricken nation. Continue reading
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Syria: Seeking a Convenient Casus Belli By Tony Cartalucci
You are an embattled nation with the entire world watching. Your allies Russia and China just made a major decision at the UN Security Council in your favor with much of their reputation and future at stake. Western propagandists have been relentlessly making up news stories regarding your nation no matter what you do, for… Continue reading
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NYT Lets Unnamed Officials Smear Critics as ‘Terrorists’
In two stories this month, New York Times journalists allowed anonymous government officials to smear critics as terrorists and terrorist sympathizers–a shocking violation of the paper’s explicit rules against allowing anonymity to be a cover for attacks. Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 21-22 February 2012: US to pump weapons into Syrian warzone?
22 February 2012 14:37:51 — williambowles.info Maybe updated as the day wears on… 012 Turkish Secret Agents Trained by the Mossad Captured in Syria GlobalResearch.ca Today at 21:40 For more details, please click on the link to read the article.”= Continue reading
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Netizen Journalism, Libya and the UN By Ronda Hauben
In this issue is a collection of articles documenting what happened in Libya in 2011. These articles serve to argue that starting in February 2011 there was a media blitz supporting the NATO actions, largely based on unverifiable claims by the opposition against the government of Libya. The story that emerged is based on broadly… Continue reading
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Media Lens: UN ‘Travesty’: Resolutions Of Mass Destruction – Part 1
It has been said that compassion is ‘the only beauty that truly pleases’ While beauty ordinarily provokes the fiery itch of desire or the sullen shadow of envy, compassion is cooling, blissful, inspiring awe and wonder. It implies an ability to stand outside our own needs as observers, to perceive the suffering of others as… Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 6-8 February 2012
8 February 2012 13:47:55 — williambowles.info 012 Israel embassies preparing for Iran strike? occupation magazine – articles Today at 23:59 Itamar Eichner – Ynet – ‘In the framework of the preparations for possible fallout in case of an Israeli strike on Iran, foreign diplomats stationed in Israel requested that the Foreign Ministry equip them and their Continue reading
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Media Lens: Snow, White And The Two Daves – The Guardian Responds
Our most recent media alert, Silence Of The Lambs, created a small ripple in the Guardian universe. We had asked why even the paper’s most radical journalists, Seumas Milne and George Monbiot, are silent on the propaganda role of the liberal media, particularly the Guardian, in propping up power. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 