Manufacturing Consent
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Media Lens: All Journalism Is ‘Advocacy Journalism’ By David Edwards
Like ‘terrorism’, it turns out that ‘advocacy journalism’ is a sin committed only by opponents of established power. The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – quintessential terrorist acts – are not described as ‘US nuclear terror’. Similarly, reporters and commentators who endlessly obscure and even celebrate their government’s crimes are not described as ‘advocacy… Continue reading
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ICH 19 April 2013: ‘My Children Were Set Up,’ Father Of Boston Suspect Claims
19 April 2013 — Information Clearing House Is Anybody Listening? U.S. Intel Chief Says Iran Isn’t Building Nukes. By Nima Shirazi In testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, the Director of National Intelligence reaffirmed what the U.S. intelligence community has been saying for years: Iran has no nuclear weapons program, is not building a nuclear weapon Continue reading
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Media Lens: Jousting With Toothpicks – The Case For Challenging Corporate Journalism By David Edwards
In an attempt to break the spell and challenge the silence, we do deliberately use provocative language. We believe the media is far more toxic than most people imagine. From our perspective, the truth about the corporate media’s mass deception can only be communicated honestly by language that many media consumers will find outrageous Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘Flatten All Of Gaza’ – The ‘Benghazi Moment’ That Didn’t Matter By David Edwards
Two or three weeks of sustained moral outrage from Washington, London and Paris, echoed across the media, are more than sufficient to generate the required hysteria. Almost anything can then be claimed, with even rational questioning denounced as ‘apologetics for tyranny’. Continue reading
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Video: Ed Herman, Co-Author of “Manufacturing Consent” Pt 1
Ed Herman, who wrote the famous book with Noam Chomsky, looks back at his life and what formed his thinking about the world Continue reading
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Video: Ed Herman, Co-Author of “Manufacturing Consent” Pt 1
Ed Herman, who wrote the famous book with Noam Chomsky, looks back at his life and what formed his thinking about the world Continue reading
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The Dangerous Cult of the Guardian by Jonathon Cook
The media – at least the supposedly leftwing component of it – should be cheering on this revolution, if not directly enabling it. And yet, mostly they are trying to co-opt, tame or subvert it. Indeed, progressive broadcasters and writers increasingly use their platforms in the mainstream to discredit and ridicule the harbingers of the… Continue reading
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Rebellious Media Conference October 2011
27 July 2011 There are a last few tickets left for the Rebellious Media Conference, taking place on the weekend of the 8th and 9th October. Speakers confirmed so far include: • Noam Chomsky (Manufacturing Consent etc.) • Michael Albert, coordinator of one of the world’s largest radical websites, ZNet • Matthew Alford (Reel Power: Continue reading
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Media Lens: What Happened To Academia? Part 2
In our reply to Piers Robinson, below, we try to show how ‘objective scholarship’, like ‘objective journalism’, all too often filters out what really matters. Moreover, as in journalism, the scholar’s obsession with objectivity tends to promote the interests of power. Why? Because mainstream academics and journalists are deeply and unconsciously biased. Continue reading
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GUEST LENS MEDIA ALERT: A COMPARATIVE REVIEW OF FLAT EARTH NEWS AND NEWSPEAK – PART 1 By Jonathan Cook
In the two-part Guest Media Alert that follows, Cook attempts the truly Herculean task of dissecting and comparing the key arguments in Nick Davies’s book ‘Flat Earth News’ and our own recently published ‘Newspeak in the 21st Century.’ The results are enthralling but demanding – even hardened media analysts will require a plentiful supply of… Continue reading
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Media Lens – Flat Earth News: The Inside View – Part 2
Media Lens – Flat Earth News: The Inside View – Part 2 MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media March 6, 2008 MEDIA ALERT: FLAT EARTH NEWS – THE INSIDE VIEW – PART 2 Churnalism And The Propaganda Model To be clear, there +is+ much of merit in Flat Earth News Continue reading
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Media Lens: Flat Earth News: The Inside View – Part 1
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media March 5, 2008 Swallowing The Kennel Nick Davies’s latest book, Flat Earth News, is a “no-holds-barred assault on the British media,†according to Michael Savage writing in the Independent. (Savage, ‘Kamal Ahmed: “Nick is a cowardâ€. Ahmed bites back,’ The Independent, February 11, 2008) Continue reading
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