Articles by MediaLens

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Deathly Silence: Obama’s Letter, Netanyahu’s Rejection, and Media’s Non-response
MediaLens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Oct 2010

Earlier this week, independent journalist Jonathan Cook reported facts that blow a hole through the standard deceit that the United States is an “honest broker” for peace in the Middle East.1 As Cook explains, details were leaked of a letter sent by US President Barack Obama to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister:

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REVIEW OF NEWSPEAK IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Joe Emersberger - Medialens, 3 Jan 2010

Medialens is a UK based website founded by David Edwards and David Cromwell that critiques media that progressives are inclined to respect such as the Guardian, the Independent and the BBC. Since 2001, it has compiled enough evidence to convince all but the most blinkered that the so called liberal media is incapable of producing […]

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THE BALANCE OF POWER – EXCHANGES WITH BBC JOURNALISTS (Part 2)
MediaLens, 20 Oct 2009

A Gale Of Spring Air: Barbara Plett And The PresidentOn September 24, we wrote to the BBC’s Barbara Plett: Dear Barbara Plett It’s hard to believe your article, ‘Debuts and diatribes at the UN’, was written by a member of an ostensibly free press. You write of Obama: “New US President Barack Obama set the […]

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THE BALANCE OF POWER: EXCHANGES WITH BBC JOURNALISTS (Part 1)
MediaLens, 15 Oct 2009

In our previous alert (‘The Westminster Conspiracy,’ October 8) we described how the media’s insistence that journalists be ’balanced’, that they keep their personal opinions to themselves, is used as a tool of thought control. Journalists who criticise powerful interests can be attacked for their ‘bias’, for revealing their prejudices. On the other hand, as […]

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