The latest edition of Project Censored’s research, the Top 25 censored news stories that didn’t make the news, and more accounts of media democracy in action will be available by October 1st, this fall, for Media Accountability Day.
Net Neutrality must be defended at all costs. Preserving a viable, independent, free and open Internet (and the media overall) is essential to a functioning democracy, but the forces aligned against it are formidable, daunting, relentless, and reprehensible. Some past challenges suggest future ones ahead.
The current move to ‘cleanse’ the airwaves involves pro-Israeli members of the congress who are in the process of submitting a bill that seeks to target satellite stations as “terrorist organizations”.
The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America is a military-backed corporate coup d’etat against the sovereignty of three nations, their populations and legislative bodies. It’s a dagger through the heart of democratic freedom in all three, yet the public is largely unaware of what’s happening.
News was another casualty of this war. The sealing off of the Gaza Strip, which was the full responsibility of the Israeli authorities, is unacceptable and disturbing.
In 1999, the corporation allowed its own high profile newsreader, Jill Dando, to present a DEC appeal for Kosovo at the height of NATO’s 78-day bombing campaign against Serbia. This, also, was an ongoing and highly controversial conflict, one that involved fraudulent US-UK government and media claims of a Serbian “genocide” in Kosovo (claims which have since been quietly abandoned).
Where should Muslims stand on free speech? Are they too sensitive to criticism? Or are they simply opposing what they see as the desecration of their revered personalities? How do Muslims explain to essentially secular societies their sense of the sacred? How is it possible to reconcile these two principles – the love for free speech and the respect for religion?
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media
October 2, 2008
Martin Tierney is one of a tiny number of mainstream journalists willing to review our book, ‘Guardians of Power’. In June 2006, he published an accurate outline of our argument in the Herald, commenting: “It stands up to scrutiny.”
He added that we “do [...]
Imagine the outrage of the American people and the confusion resulting from a flood of unverifiable and often conflicting stories surrounding a would-be coup. Would we tolerate this infringement of our nation’s sovereignty? One certainly hopes not. Yet on April 11th, 2002, the above scenario of events actually happened in Venezuela, apparently with the aid (or at least the indirect approval) of the United States government under the auspices of the International Republican Institute (IRI) and its financial source, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
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One would hardly guess from media reporting that Britain and America are responsible for killing anyone in Iraq and Afghanistan, where violence is typically blamed on “insurgents” and “sectarian conflict”. International “coalition” forces are depicted as peacekeepers using minimum violence as a last resort.
Filed in Creative-i on Iraq, Creative-i on the Media, Guest Writers
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MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media
July 10, 2008
On June 28 and July 3, Media Lens received repeated threats of both legal and police action from Alastair Brett, legal manager of News International’s Times Newspapers.
Noam Chomsky described the threat, pithily, as “pretty sick.” (Email, June 28, 2008) David Miller, professor of [...]
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Also tagged advertising, ANC, books, cia, culture, empire, EU, GE, guardian, human rights, independent, international law, israel, media, media lens, MIT, News International, noam chomsky, propaganda, right, stalin, the Guardian, the Independent, the state, The Times, uk, un, usa, war
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The Gandhi Foundation Peace Award And An Appeal For Support
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media
November 13, 2007
We are happy to report that we will be accepting the Gandhi Foundation International Peace Award on December 2. See here:
http://www.gandhifoundation.org/peaceaward.html
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