Media bias
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Media Lens: ‘Disgustingly Biased’ – The Corporate Media On The Gaza Massacre
The bias in failing to report the brutalisation of a trapped, impoverished people under occupation is staggering. Many might wonder why journalists fail to speak out. But several journalists who have exposed Israeli actions, and media bias favouring Israel, have been punished. Continue reading
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CNN: Palestinians Want to Die By David Swanson
In this video from Thursday on CNN, Jake Tapper interviews Diana Buttu, a former advisor to the PLO. After failing to persuade her of Israel’s complete innocence, he tells her that Hamas is instructing women and children to remain in their homes to die as Israel bombs them. She responds by expressing doubt that people… Continue reading
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UK SEP National Secretary interviewed on BBC Daily Politics
On Monday Chris Marsden, the National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in the UK, was interviewed on the BBC 2’s Daily Politics show. The interview, with journalist Jo Coburn, was in response to the SEP’s official complaint that a previous May 21 interview with Marsden on the show ended with interviewer Giles Dilnot,… Continue reading
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Media Lean Left, Say Journalists Who Don't Really Say That By Peter Hart
The end of a story in Politico (12/18/13), about a Politico media roundtable featuring CNN’s Jake Tapper, NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell, and Peter Baker and Mark Leibovich of the New York Times, caught my eye: Continue reading
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Update from the Electronic Intifada 29 June 2011: Flotilla | Veolia court verdict | Study: pro-Israel bias in UK coverage | And more …
29 June 2011 — Electronic Intifada RECENT BLOG POSTS ON THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA: Gaza-bound ship “Juliano” found sabotaged in Greek port http://electronicintifada.net/blog/ali-abunimah/gaza-bound-ship-juliano-found-sabotaged-greek-port Continue reading
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Video: Bias at the BBC BY Lauren Booth
30 May 2011 — Uprooted Palestinians http://www.presstv.ir/player/player1.swf Continue reading
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FT journalist accuses press warmongers
A leading Financial Times journalist accused the British media today of ‘buttering up’ the population to support the war on Libya. Continue reading
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Truth, Propaganda and Media Manipulation By Global Research
Never before has it been so important to have independent, honest voices and sources of information. We are – as a society – inundated and overwhelmed with a flood of information from a wide array of sources, but these sources of information, by and large, serve the powerful interests and individuals that own them. The… Continue reading
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Truth, Propaganda and Media Manipulation By Global Research
Never before has it been so important to have independent, honest voices and sources of information. We are – as a society – inundated and overwhelmed with a flood of information from a wide array of sources, but these sources of information, by and large, serve the powerful interests and individuals that own them. The… Continue reading
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BBC Bias: The Gaza Freedom Flotilla
12 September, 2010 An invaluable film by the master documentary maker Anthony Lawson http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Video.4423824 BBC Bias: The Gaza Freedom Flotilla, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Michael Arrington: journalists have a right to express their opinions
Michael Arrington, writing for TechCrunch, argues that journalists should openly express their opinions and biases, despite the longstanding idea that journalists should hide their political biases. This argument by Arrington comes on the heels of CNN’s firing of Octavia Nasr because of a controversial tweet and the forced resignation of Helen Thomas because of her… Continue reading
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PRC Action Alert: Direct Bias showed on BBC on Flotilla crime
In most of its coverage BBC depended on Israeli sources whilst the Palestinian side has been ignored. PRC suggests that such coverage harm the image of BBC and could classify it as an alternative for some Israeli media outlets. Continue reading
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Does Biased News Have a ‘Time Bomb’ Effect? By Melinda Burns
Even the most hardened Europeans may succumb to media manipulation and change their political views if they are bombarded long enough with biased news Continue reading
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Recent Pictures From BAGnewsNotes
BAGnewsNotes offers a daily analysis of news images from a progressive point of view. The BAG calls out media bias, breaks down right wing visual propaganda, and helps turn its readers into sharper “visual consumers.” Continue reading
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The Real News Network – Israel, Palestine and the media
Mordecai Briemberg on battle over satire, media concentration and coverage of Israel PT2/2 http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1770526 more about “The Real News Network – Israel, Pales…“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Media Lens: CHILDREN IN THE CROSSHAIRS
3 November, 2008 Media Silent On Evidence Of Israeli Targeting Of Youngsters <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media On the afternoon of Thursday 28 February, 2008, a group of <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Palestinian boys were playing football on some open ground near their homes in the <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Gaza Strip. At around Continue reading
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FAIR Media Advisory: Top Troubling Tropes of Campaign ’08 20 October, 2008
Corporate media coverage of election 2008 has fallen into the well-documented pattern (Extra!, 5-6/08) of reporting on the election as if it were a horse-race rather than a democratic process in which real issues were at stake. Not only do journalists organize the election story around the question–not terribly helpful to voters–of who’s up and Continue reading
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Media Lens: INTELLECTUAL CLEANSING: PART 3 — Comment Is Closed
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media October 15, 2008 In Part 1 of this alert, we noted how journalists who threaten their employers’ interests – and the interests of their key political and corporate allies – tend to be unceremoniously dumped. We also described how the force of the law Continue reading
The New Dark Age 