Newsnight
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Emily Maitlis is right about BBC bias – but for the wrong reasons
Journalists aren’t too deferential and timid, as the ex-Newsnight presenter claims. They are only too ready to bare their teeth when it serves establishment interests Continue reading
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Media Lens: Russell Brand’s ‘Revolution’ – Part 1, ‘The Fun Bus’
His 10-minute interview with Jeremy Paxman on the BBC’s Newsnight programme not only attracted millions of viewers – the YouTube hit-counter stands at 10.6 million – it won considerable praise and support from corporate journalists on Twitter. Brand was arguing for ‘revolution’ and yet was flavour of the month, cool to like. Something didn’t add… Continue reading
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BBC revealed UK plan to attack Syria
The United Kingdom envisaged to train and equip 100,000 men in Turkey and Jordan, who would have launched a ground invasion of Syria and taken Damascus, bolstered by a British air strike on a comparable scale as the one unleashed on Baghdad in 2003. Continue reading
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How George Bush won the war in Iraq – really! By Greg Palast
The invasion was not about “blood for oil”, but something far more sinister: blood for no oil. War to keep supply tight and send prices skyward. Continue reading
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Hugo Chavez vs "The Network" By Greg Palast
In 2002, Chavez’ oil company chief, Ali Rodriguez, told me: “America can’t let us stay in power. We are the exception to the New Globalisation Order. If we succeed, we are an example to all the Americas.” Continue reading
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Video: – Eric Hobsbawm 'Responsible Capitalism?'
Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm told Newsnight’s Jeremy Paxman that capitalism was concerned only with growth and making profit, not responsibility. Continue reading
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The Israel Lobby’s Power Comes From the American Ruling Class
“Prince Walid bin Talal bin Abdelaziz Al-Saud, the second biggest shareholder in News Corporation after Murdoch, recently gave an interview, on his yacht, to the BBC flagship programme Newsnight. The Saudi prince declared himself “a good friend” of Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch Continue reading
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The Aaronovitch Code By Dan Hind
I’d more or less put David Aaronovitch out of my mind recently, what with the paywall and everything. But he turned up on Newsnight last night as part of the programme’s efforts to erase memories of the previous night’s now-notorious ‘ask the public’ episode. Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: BREAK THE SILENT SPRING – A MEDIA LENS APPEAL FOR YOUR SUPPORT
We witnessed in the lead up to the invasion of Iraq how the sheer weight of media propaganda could make an invented, non-existent threat seem real. The same media have now made the choice between three corporate drones offering the same form of “friendly fascism” appear meaningful. The front page of the BBC’s news website… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: THE SILENCE OF THE BBC 100 – BBC TRUST CHAIRMAN RESPONDS TO ‘NEWSPEAK’
One of our readers recently took us to task for a serious omission in our new book, ‘Newspeak in the 21st Century’ (Pluto Press, 2009). He asked how we could possibly have failed to include the BBC’s Newsnight presenter, Emily Maitlis. In August 2008, Maitlis opened Newsnight with these words about the conflict between Russia… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS: THE BBC’S JEREMY PAXMAN ON IRAQ – “WE WERE HOODWINKED”
Does not government submission of evidence mark the point where serious journalism +begins+ rather than ends? What is the reason for journalism at all, if the responsibility is simply to accept what a US Secretary of Defence says because we “know” he “is an intelligent, thoughtful man, and a sceptical man”? Continue reading
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Media Lens: I, (Fascist) Robot – The BBC’s Gavin Esler Lets Rip
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media September 26, 2007 MEDIA ALERT: I, (FASCIST) ROBOT – THE BBC’S GAVIN ESLER LETS RIP In response to our September 18 alert, ‘The Media Ignore Credible Poll Revealing 1.2 Million Violent Deaths In Iraq,’ BBC Newsnight presenter Gavin Esler sent one Media Lens reader Continue reading
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Media Lens: Newsnight Diplomatic Editor Mark Urban Responds
31 May 2007 — Media Lens On May 22, we published a Media Alert, ‘The Surge – Here To Help,’ analysing a May 14 BBC report from Iraq by Newsnight’s diplomatic editor Mark Urban. (See: www.medialens.org/alerts/07/070522_the_surge_here.php) We had previously written to Urban on May 15: Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Surge – Here to Help
On the May 14 edition of Newsnight, the BBC’s Mark Urban reported from Iraq that the US troop “surge” was an attempt to “turn the tide of violence” in Baghdad. Urban did not mean it was an attempt to turn the tide of violence in America’s favour and against its enemies – the media essentially… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Newsnight Editor Responds On The Nicholas Burns Interview
26 April 2007 — Media Lens On April 17, we published our Media Alert, ‘The BBC’s Gavin Esler Interviews US Undersecretary Of State Nicholas Burns’ (www.medialens.org/alerts/07/070417_the_bbcs_gavin.php) We noted how Esler had completely failed to challenge Burns on the catastrophe afflicting Iraq, despite damning reports just published by the Red Cross and the United Nations High Continue reading
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Media Lens: The BBC’s Gavin Esler Interviews Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns
Who would guess from media reporting that Iraq is being convulsed by a human cataclysm? And who would guess that this catastrophe is the result of American and British criminality? Continue reading
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Media Lens: Manufactured Consensus – The Sun and Saddam Hussein
Just over one year ago, British journalists and politicians were fulminating over photographs published in the Daily Mirror that appeared to show Iraqi prisoners being abused by British soldiers. The British military, it was claimed, now possessed incontrovertible proof that the pictures were fake. Mirror editor, Piers Morgan – a fierce opponent of the war… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Iraq and Zimbabwe – A Tale of Two Elections
In January, we showed how the British print and broadcast media were all but unanimous in celebrating the January 30 elections in Iraq as the country’s “first democratic elections in fifty years”. As we noted, this was an excellent example of how the corporate mass media function as a de facto propaganda system for state-corporate… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Protest the BBC on Thursday, December 2 – This is Why. Part 1
The BBC, of course, is not the Nazi media, but there have been real war crimes in Iraq, a real mass slaughter, and the BBC has helped make it possible. Please read the examples below and protest on December 2 out of compassion for the suffering of the men, women and children of Iraq. Continue reading
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Weapons, Media and Politics – an evil ‘axis of interests’ By William Bowles
Carlyle is a who’s who of the right-wing elite both here in the UK and over the pond in the US, with former Prime Minister John Major as a director, George Bush Snr and his Secretary of State, James Baker, as advisers, and it’s headed by Frank Carlucci, Ronald Reagan’s Defence Secretary. Continue reading
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