In an interview this week on Talk TV, Piers Morgan subjected Jeremy Corbyn to an extraordinary barrage of questioning:




‘Are Hamas a terror group? Are they a terror group? Answer the question! Are they a terror group? Are they a terror group? Are they…

The Guardian has long promoted itself as a valiant publisher of news and analysis that holds the powerful to account. It is a thing of wonder that the Guardian appends the following comment beneath news pieces:

A short video introducing our media alert of 17 November 2023, titled:

‘Are Hamas A Terror Group? Are They A Terror Group? Answer The Question!’

https://www.medialens.org/2023/are-hamas-a-terror-group-are-they-a-terror-group-answer-the-question/

Video:…

Left-progressive websites don’t always get it right. Take Media Lens, for example. In October, we discussed the corporate media invention of so-called ‘disinformation experts’. We lampooned the claim that although journalists are ‘working within profit-maximising…

Last week, the Observer reported that the slogan ‘united we will win’ is a fixture on Israeli screens ‘for most TV news and talk shows’. Raviv Drucker, one of Israel’s leading investigative journalists, commented:

On 20 March 2006, on the third anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq, BBC diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall declared on the Six O’Clock News:

Carlo Rovelli is a renowned Italian theoretical physicist and writer who has made important contributions to the physics of space and time. He is currently a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute, and a core member of Canada's Rotman…

Corporate journalists are indeed ‘masters of self-adulation’, as Noam Chomsky has observed. In fact, they have to be; or at least they have to appear to be. Consider BBC World Affairs Editor John…

A key function of the state-corporate media is to deny reality. They do supply news. But it is no accident that they supply news of a type that covers up the crimes of elite power.



However, the appalling violence and destruction being inflicted in Gaza…

Tourists visiting Spanish cities like Córdoba, Toledo and Sevilla have the option of whiling away an hour or so at a ‘Museum of the Inquisition’, sometimes known as a ‘Gallery of Torture’. For around three euros, visitors can view an exotic range of devices…

Propaganda by omission is a dominant feature of the ‘mainstream’ news media. Indeed, it is a requirement. Rather than serving the public interest by fully exposing the brutal machinations of power, state-corporate media shield Western governments and their…

Buddhist writer Harvey Aronson shone a bright light on a hidden truth:




‘Most of us habitually think this way: “Jayne lost the book I lent her. She is irresponsible and awful.” It is a lot harder to acknowledge this feeling: “I fear I don’t matter in her…

No doubt like many other people around the world, we have been surprised and increasingly concerned that Noam Chomsky has not commented publicly on current events for around one year; in particular, on the Israeli genocide of Palestinians.



The most recent…

In his very last article, 'We are Spartacus', published just a month before his death in December, John Pilger included a quote that exactly captured the truth of our time:




‘“This is a sharp time, now, a precise time …” wrote Arthur Miller in The Crucible…

Is it possible for an entire 'mainstream' media system - every newspaper, website, TV channel - to completely suppress one side of a crucial argument without anyone expressing outrage, or even noticing? Consider the following.



In February 2022, Nigel Farage…

The BBC’s banner headline reporting the UK’s 4 July general election result was clear:




‘Chris Mason: “Starmer tsunami” and civility after brutality’




This alliterated nicely but gave the misleading impression that there had been a massive display of…

Last November, we reported on an incisive and courageous email that had been sent on 24 October 2023 to Tim Davie, the BBC’s Director General, by Rami Ruhayem, a Beirut-based BBC correspondent. Basing his arguments on considerable evidence and rational analysis…

Media Lens is a UK-based media watchdog. It is our response to the increasingly centralised, corporate, state-subservient nature of the mislabelled ‘mainstream’ media system (‘MSM’). We argue that the ‘MSM’, in fact, acts as a de facto propaganda system for…

On 20 July 1982, an IRA bomb exploded beneath a bandstand on which 30 military bandsmen of the 1st Battalion, Royal Green Jackets were performing in Regent’s Park, London. Six of the bandsmen were killed instantly and the rest were injured; a seventh later…