David Edwards on February 22, 2010 2 Comments
Media distortions and “real” climate change scandals
Media
Hired Hands — Part 2
David Edwards — July 12, 2009 0 Comments
George Monbiot got it right: mainstream journalists, quite simply, are “hired hands defending a corporate or institutional position”.
Politics
Hired Hands: Obama, Gaza, and MPs expenses
David Edwards — July 7, 2009 1 Comment
We do not live in a totalitarian society – the public potentially has enormous power to interfere. The goal, then, is to persuade the public that corporate-sponsored political choice is meaningful, that it makes a difference. The task of politicians at all points of the supposed ’spectrum’ is to appear passionately principled while participating in what is essentially a charade
Politics
The left-wing media fallacy
David Edwards — May 11, 2009 10 Comments
It is a mistake to imagine that media corporations are impervious to all complaints and criticism. In fact, senior editors and managers are only too happy to accept that their journalists tend to be ‘anti-American,’ ‘anti-Israel,’ ‘anti-Western,’ indeed utterly rotten with left-wing bias
Media
Generic Invader Nonsense (GIN) — Obama on Iraq
David Edwards — March 10, 2009 2 Comments
David Edwards parses Obama’s words on Iraq, and the slavish media reaction.
Editor's Pick, Media
“The false comfort of cynicism”: Why the media attacked the New York University student protesters
Jesse Soursourian — March 5, 2009 8 Comments
The recent student protests at New York University were greeted with ridicule and abuse from much of the media. The backlash to the backlash has now taken off, but the fake-righteousness of the cynics shows their warped world-view.
Editor's Pick, Politics
The media debate assumes Israel wants peace. It doesn’t.
Frank Barat — January 2, 2009 1 Comment
Israel doesn’t want peace and has worked studiously to avoid it coming about. The Western media needs to realize this before it’s too late.
Editor's Pick, Media
The U.S. media is structurally biased and normal people have to start thinking outside the box for real change to happen
Declan McDaid — December 10, 2008 7 Comments
The media in the U.S. set a narrow range of political debate, which makes real change impossible. Obama rode on this media wave and he must be criticized by the very people who elected him to make sure he doesn’t turn into another Tony Blair.
Editor's Pick, Politics
Business journalists need to look at the roots, not the tree
Andrew Crook — October 16, 2008 2 Comments
Business journalist, Andrew Crook, says his colleagues in the financial media should stop leaving the status-quo unquestioned in the mad scramble for the next story.
Economics
The U.S. media election coverage is a travesty
Matt Kennard — October 9, 2008 1 Comment
The U.S. election 2008 is seriously important, but the mainstream media have treated it like a game show to be won or lost without any real issues getting a look-in.