MSM
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Do U.S. and UK Have the World’s Most-Censored Press?
How can democracy exist in a nation where none of the mainstream media, and few even of the non-mainstream media, are reporting the realities that all of the controlling billionaires want the public not to know? Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Filter Bubble – Owen Jones And Con Coughlin
The nightmare version of ‘news’ is maintained by a corporate ‘filter bubble’ that blocks facts, ideas and sources that challenge state-corporate control of politics, economics and culture. It is maintained by a mixture of ruthless high-level control and middle- and lower-level compromise, conformity and self-serving blindness. Continue reading
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Blanket Silence: Corporate Media Ignore New Report Exposing Distorted And Misleading Coverage of Corbyn
If there’s one thing we’ve learned in the 17 years since Media Lens began, it’s that media professionals generally hate being challenged, critiqued or criticised. This fierce antipathetical belligerence underlies the corporate media’s total refusal to mention, far less discuss, a recent damning report on how the corporate media have been misreporting Labour and its… Continue reading
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Video: UK Election Polls Tighten to Three Points Between May and Corbyn
Tom Barlow, co-founder of Real Media, talks about how Britain’s June 8 general election race is tightening between Labour and Tories and how the mainstream British media is losing credibility in the process (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Media Lens: Eeny, Meeny Madness – Beyond Racism By David Edwards
The additional absurdity of the filtered, ‘mainstream’ response to racism and sexism, is that these forms of prejudice are treated as exotic and incurable diseases from which most decent folk are free. Evidence is sought of any slip, any tiny evidence of infection. If discovered, an individual’s reputation is deemed to have been destroyed; their… Continue reading
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Massacre At Aqrab: Video Exposes Anti Syrian Government Propaganda
The Syrian crisis has been plagued by disinformation, especially when it comes to the Mainstream Media (MSM) and its lies about the Syrian conflict to suit their governments’ agendas. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 29 December 2011: U.S., Israel Discuss Bombing Iran
29 December 2011 — Information Clearing House U.S., Israel Discuss Triggers for Bombing Iran By Eli Lake The Obama administration is trying to assure Israel privately that it would strike Iran militarily if Tehran’s nuclear program crosses certain “red lines” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30098.htm Continue reading
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Are we living in a fool’s paradise? By William Bowles
We are now literally, passive observers of our own funerals in a world of total media saturation and control. A world of endless tragedy but at a distance, mediated by an unseen hand and fed to us pretty much like an out-of-control soap opera, where events break and at first reporting is chaotic and normally… Continue reading
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MSM’s Keep Relentlessly Pounding on Gaddafi’s Libya
NATO’s conquest of Libya has taught me the enormous strength of those who control the main stream media. Once you have established a certain ‘paradigm’ or perspective on a particular situation, it is easy to let people stick to that by fueling them with exactly those kinds of words that will prolong the existence of… Continue reading
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Reporting the war in Iraq: Underwhelmed with information, overwhelmed with propaganda By William Bowles
11 January 2004 At the close of 2003, 506 US soldiers had died in Iraq, the deadliest year for the US Army since 1972 when the US lost 640 dead in Vietnam. In the week following the capture of Saddam Hussein the death rate actually to rose to 19 (the average being nine). Continue reading
The New Dark Age 