journalists
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Media Lens: Silence Of The Lambs
One of the original aims of Media Lens, when we began in 2001, was to engage in honest, open and rational debate with journalists working for major news organisations. It wasn’t about ‘bashing’ them or trying to make them look bad. We wanted to examine media assumptions, challenge journalists’ arguments and find out more about… Continue reading
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British Regulators Pull Press TV: Another Blow To Media Freedom By Danny Schechter
The British media regulator OFCOM has pulled Press TV’s license to be seen in the United Kingdom. Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 19-20 December 2011
19 December 2011 — williambowless.info 19 December 2011 US: Iran a year away from nukes, strike ‘not off the table’ Russiatoday.ru Today at 17:36 Washington is not ruling out a military operation against Tehran if it gets wind of an Iranian nuke program, declared US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. The US believes Iran could develop Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 30 November 2011
30 November 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks Postpones Relaunch PC Magazine By Sara Yin WikiLeaks has postponed the relaunch of its online submission platform because it was deemed too insecure for whistleblowers to leak information. “Due to the deteriorating state of internet security which directly impacts the ability of … http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/none/291086-wikileaks-postpones-relaunch Continue reading
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FAIR Blog » Crackdown on Journalists at Occupy Wall Street
During the early morning raid on the Occupy Wall Street camp journalists were blocked from covering much of what was happening. Josh Stearns from Free Press has a rundown–as he points out, ‘By dawn, 10 journalists, including reporters from NPR, the Associated Press and the New York Daily News, had been arrested.’ Continue reading
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FAIR Blog » Crackdown on Journalists at Occupy Wall Street
During the early morning raid on the Occupy Wall Street camp journalists were blocked from covering much of what was happening. Josh Stearns from Free Press has a rundown–as he points out, ‘By dawn, 10 journalists, including reporters from NPR, the Associated Press and the New York Daily News, had been arrested.’ Continue reading
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Media Lens Cogitation: Free to be Human – An Interview with David Edwards
The aim of Richard Capes’ More Thought blog is ‘to provide detailed audio/video/written interviews with authors of non-fiction social, political, philosophical and environmental books that I consider essential reading’. Here is Richard’s November 10 interview with Media Lens co-editor David Edwards about his book Free to be Human. The interview is quite long, we urge… Continue reading
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…and Gaddafi was what? Bad, yes. Now open your Citizenship Readers to page 45….
I suppose because the average Libyan is now doomed to years of social chaos, misery and poverty, western consensus media have redoubled their efforts to remind us just how heinous Gaddafi was. I know it’s near to useless to try to hold them responsible or awaken any vestigial conscience lurking in a journalist’s tiny head,… Continue reading
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Video Clip: Gaza – Where Should the Birds Fly?
The site is for a film being made by a Palestinian woman about Israel’s multiple military attacks on Gaza, esp. the 2008-2009 “operation cast lead” where Israel allowed no journalists or human rights observers into Gaza to witness the devastation (ironically Israel today is calling for UN observers to enter Syria to document the killings… Continue reading
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This Is How Israel Runs The British Press
The following is a glimpse into the Israeli Hasbara’s/Mossad’s/Sayanim’s operation in the UK. It explains how Israel and its agents manage to dominate news coverage in Britain and beyond. It seems from the following leaked email as if BICOM (British Israel Communication & Research Centre) runs the News desk for the BBC, Sky and the… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Killing Gaddafi
Gaddafi and his son were not the only victims of the mob. Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported that between six and ten people appeared to have been executed at the scene of the Libyan leader’s capture. Around 95 bodies were found in the immediate vicinity, many of them victims of Nato airstrikes. In fact, it… Continue reading
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Media Reform in Britain By Dan Hind
We are here because we know that there is something profoundly wrong in the communications sector. It has been obvious for a long time that much of the media are incapable of describing the world when doing so would disrupt the interests of powerful institutions and individuals. Continue reading
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Video: Honduras – The Deadliest Place in the World for a Journalist
Mini-documentary on the Honduran journalists that have watched 15 colleagues assassinated in 19 months under the Lobo regime, a government Barack Obama praises for its “strong commitment to democracy” Continue reading
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1st Amendment Victory in Goodman v. St. Paul, MN Police
Yesterday, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) celebrated a landmark settlement in Goodman v. St. Paul, a federal lawsuit brought by Democracy Now! journalists Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, and Nicole Salazar against the Minneapolis-St. Paul police departments and the U.S. Secret Service, arising from law enforcement’s unlawful arrest and use of excessive of force… Continue reading
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Telesur Journalists Speak Truth on Libya
This week Telesur welcomed home a news team just back from covering NATO’s war on Libya from that nation’s capital, Tripoli. On arrival at Venezuela’s Maiquetia International Airport, the journalists denounced the ongoing ‘fabrication of lies’ by mainstream media outlets and accused the international press of ‘producing the arguments needed for a continuation of the… Continue reading
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Libya Occupied by the NATO Invaders By Iftekhar A Khan
-Qaddafi was held in higher esteem than, say, the Khalifa of Bahrain and its hated prime minister of forty years. The genuine public uprising, mainly by Bahrain’s seventy percent Shiites, was ruthlessly crushed while the rebellion in Libya was not only encouraged but actively supported by Nato air power. Continue reading
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Media Lens: To Avert A Bloodbath – Libya And The Press – Part 2
On August 23 and 24, the media once again abandoned all pretence of objectivity in celebrating the ‘fall’ of Tripoli, as they had in celebrating the ‘fall’ of Kabul and Baghdad. This, again, was a moment of national triumph, of vindication – the famed concern with ‘balance’ was brushed aside as mean-spirited, even nasty (the… Continue reading
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UPDATE: Life of Independent Journalists in Tripoli. Very Critical Situation
Independent journalists trapped at the Rixos hotel were evacuated Wednesday under the auspices of the Red Cross. Continue reading
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Tripoli: Battles Raging Against Invadors
Fighting is now raging around the sea side of Tripoli, showing that NATO which controls the entire Gulf of Sidra does not even control critical central Tripoli areas which are right on the sea front. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 