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...
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Exchanges With Piers Robinson of The University Of Manchester What happened to academia? In 2008, Terry Eagleton, formerly Professor of English Literature at Manchester University, wrote: "By and...
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FOLLOW-UP ALERT ON ISRAEL’S POLICY OF NEAR-STARVATION FOR GAZA On November 17, we sent out a media alert that highlighted the corporate media’s lack of interest in official documents revealing Israel’s...
View ArticleNEW MEDIA LENS WEBSITE AND AN APPEAL
We are happy to announce that, beginning September 20, David Cromwell took the big leap out of paid work into full-time co-editing of Media Lens, there to join David Edwards who has been working...
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MEDIA BURY DOCUMENTS REVEALING ISRAEL’S DELIBERATE POLICY OF NEAR-STARVATION FOR GAZA Israel has been forced to reveal what Palestinians and other observers on the ground have known for a long time:...
View ArticleWikileaks - The Smear And The Denial - Part 2
The UK and US media smears described in Part 1 should be kept in mind when considering the gravity and importance of the latest WikiLeaks. In addition to thousands of previously unreported civilian...
View ArticleWikileaks - The Smear And The Denial - Part 1
“Journalists don't like WikiLeaks”, Hugo Rifkind notes in The Times, but “the people who comment online under articles do... Maybe you've noticed, and been wondering why. I certainly have.” (Hugo...
View ArticleHOLLYWOOD - WEAPONISED DREAM FACTORY
AN INTERVIEW WITH MATTHEW ALFORD, AUTHOR OF REEL POWER Where They Have Holes In Their Souls We bask in a certain reflected glory from the newspapers we read. To “take” The Times is to be far more...
View ArticleDEATHLY SILENCE, OBAMA’S LETTER, NETANYAHU’S REJECTION AND THE MEDIA’S...
Following Israel’s capture of the West Bank in 1967, along with other territories including East Jerusalem, Israel has built and expanded Jewish settlements on occupied Palestinian land. The settlers...
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THE SUNDAY TIMES INTERVIEWS TUC LEADER BRENDAN BARBER In a despairing article in the Guardian last week, George Monbiot described the true extent of the failure to respond to the threat of climate...
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