Murdoch
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The Media Is Biased Against Jeremy Corbyn – but Does That Even Matter in This Election?
On 11 April 1992, Murdoch-owned redtop newspaper The Sun ran with the headline ‘It’s the Sun Wot Won It’, proudly proclaiming to have handed a general election victory to Conservative John Major, to the detriment of ‘evil’ left-winger Neil Kinnock. However, a few years later, scientific research found ‘no support’ for this bullish claim. Continue reading
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Murdoch-Sky Merger Update: Good News?
Today, the Competition and Markets Authority announced that it is recommending a provisional block on the Fox-Sky merger on plurality grounds. This is welcome news, but far from a done deal. We still need to make sure that the merger doesn’t win approval on the basis of superficial undertakings offered by the Murdochs. Continue reading
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Video Preview: #stopmurdoch Sky Takeover
30 November 2017 — CPBF The #stopmurdoch video is being crowdfunded and this is a preview and an opportunity to fund it. The Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom One of CPBF’s aims is to: ‘To challenge the myth that press freedom is best served by current forms of ownership and control, and by ‘self-regulation’ Continue reading
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New research on Murdoch's agenda power
In our submission to the phase 2 Fox/Sky merger inquiry we have presented interim findings from new research. This suggests that the Murdoch’s influence over the news agenda may be more extensive than previously thought. The Sky take-over threatens to further consolidate this control over news agendas on every platform – print, television, radio and… Continue reading
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New research on Murdoch’s agenda power
In our submission to the phase 2 Fox/Sky merger inquiry we have presented interim findings from new research. This suggests that the Murdoch’s influence over the news agenda may be more extensive than previously thought. The Sky take-over threatens to further consolidate this control over news agendas on every platform – print, television, radio and… Continue reading
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Re: The Sky takeover
Rupert Murdoch’s Sky TV takeover is being investigated by an important government watchdog. They’ve been tasked with recommending whether the deal should go ahead. If they come out against it, it throws a huge spanner in Murdoch’s plans. Continue reading
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Murdoch-Owned Media's Radical Climate Denial in the Face of Disaster
Outlets owned by Murdoch’s umbrella corporations, News Corp and 21st Century Fox, clearly led the denialist camp. These firms constitute the core propaganda machine of the right in the English-speaking world, with the highest-rated cable news network (Fox News) and the first and sixth biggest-circulation newspapers (Wall Street Journal, New York Post) in the United… Continue reading
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Murdoch-Owned Media’s Radical Climate Denial in the Face of Disaster
Outlets owned by Murdoch’s umbrella corporations, News Corp and 21st Century Fox, clearly led the denialist camp. These firms constitute the core propaganda machine of the right in the English-speaking world, with the highest-rated cable news network (Fox News) and the first and sixth biggest-circulation newspapers (Wall Street Journal, New York Post) in the United… Continue reading
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News of the World hacking trial ends: Scandal still poses threat to Britain’s ruling elite By Robert Stevens
The trial of former News of the World (NotW) editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson and others connected with phone hacking has ended with Coulson, former head of communications of Prime Minister David Cameron, found guilty of conspiracy to intercept voicemail messages. Brooks, the former head of billionaire oligarch Rupert Murdoch’s media-empire in Britain, was… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Tilting At Easy Targets: Climate Change And The ‘Highly Ideological’ Liberal Mindset By David Cromwell
When a senior UN climate official warns that the world is ‘heading for a heart attack’ (The Times, September 23, 2013), there is clearly no time to lose in taking the radical action necessary to avert disaster. But we also have to understand why it is that no matter how many scientific warnings and ‘wake… Continue reading
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Senior political figures demand second vote in UK parliament on Syrian attack By Julie Hyland
A concerted campaign is underway for a second vote in Britain’s parliament to sanction war against Syria. These efforts come in the wake of President Obama’s announcement that he will seek congressional authorisation for military strikes. Continue reading
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The Other Elephant in the Room: Funding public interest news By Justin Schlosberg
As we reflect on the post-Leveson political furore, it is worth recalling Stuart Hall’s maxim that it is the way in which public problems are defined – rather than their proposed solutions – which exemplifies the exercise of real power in advanced capitalist democracies. Continue reading
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Hold the front page! We need free media, not an Order of Mates By John Pilger
The other day, I stood outside the strangely silent building where I began life as a journalist. It is no longer the human warren that was Consolidated Press in Sydney, though ghosts still drink at the King’s Head pub nearby. As a cadet reporter, I might have walked on to the set of Lewis Milestone’s… Continue reading
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Apologists for Israel take top posts at BBC By Amena Saleem
The American poet T.S. Eliot wrote that “April is the cruelest month.” The phrase springs to mind in April 2013, the month that a new director-general took up his post at the BBC and, within two weeks, had installed a line-up of hardline Zionists at the top of the world’s largest publicly-funded news organization. Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘The Stupidest And Most Extreme Section Of The British Left’
In a media alert earlier this year, we described our under-resourced challenges of the corporate media as ‘jousting with toothpicks’. Although the analogy was light-hearted, the work of Media Lens is serious and would not be possible without your support. Continue reading
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Thatcher’s Record: It’s All Smoke and Mirrors By Tim Holmes
Beneath the tide of stirring political rhetoric, it is worth taking a careful look at the woman’s true record in and out of office. What follows is an attempt to shed light on several key areas of that record. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Cartoon Politics: Rupert Murdoch, The Pro-Israel Lobby And Israel’s Crimes By David Cromwell
A crucial element of pro-Israel political lobbying is the reprehensible smearing of justified criticism of the Israeli state as ‘antisemitic’. Thus, a recent cartoon by Gerald Scarfe in the Sunday Times provided a convenient target for outrage. Continue reading
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Welcome to the Shammies, the media awards that recognise truly unsung talent By John Pilger
The Shammies celebrate the finest sham media. “Competition for the 2013 Gold Shammy,” said the panel of judges, “has been cutthroat.” The Shammies are not for the tabloid lower orders. Rupert Murdoch has been honoured enough. Shammies distinguish respectable journalism that guards the limits of what the best and brightest like to call the “national… Continue reading
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Ruppert Murdoch’s Bid to Persuade Gen. David Petraeus to Run as Republican Candidate in the 2012 Presidential Election By Jonathan Cook
A taped conversation shows that in early 2011 Murdoch sent Roger Ailes, the boss of his most important US media outlet, Fox News, to Afghanistan to persuade Gen David Petraeus, former commander of US forces, to run against Barack Obama as the Republican candidate in the 2012 presidential election. Murdoch promised to bankroll Petraeus’ campaign… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Won't Get Fooled Again? Hyping Syria's WMD 'Threat' By: David Edwards
Reading about crimes of state over many years, it is tempting to try to fathom the mind-set of political leaders. What actually is going on in their heads when they order sanctions that kill hundreds of thousands of children? What is in their hearts when they wage needless wars that shatter literally millions of lives?… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 