Classic BBC News on international ‘good guys’ v. ‘bad guys’. All part of the insidious, relentless drip-drip of propaganda about Official Enemies - whether China or Russia or North Korea or Iran or Iraq or...

Huw Edwards on BBC News at Ten on 14 October…

BBC deputy political editor James Landale can barely contain himself as he reports on Hilary Benn's Parliamentary oratory in favour of dropping bombs on Syria, calling it:

'*the* most extraordinary speech'.

adding:

'I’ve been reporting Parliament for about…

Guardian-Friendly Omissions – ‘This Land’ By Owen Jones
Our most celebrated public radicals – almost all of them made famous by corporate media – function as dissident vaccines that inoculate the public against a pandemic of authentic dissent.
Media Lens…

Robert Fisk, the Independent’s Middle East correspondent, died on 30 October aged 74. In reviewing his life and career, the newspaper for which he worked for more than two decades wrote of their star reporter:



'Much of what Fisk wrote was controversial...'…

The Roman poet Horace famously declared:



‘Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.’



It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. Wilfred Owen, the great English poet of the First World War, described this phrase as ‘the old Lie’ in his famous war…

Robert Fisk – Death Of A ‘Controversial’ Journalist
A video introduction to our media alert, dated 10th November 2020.

Full text at our website:
https://www.medialens.org/2020/robert-fisk-death-of-a-controversial-journalist/

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A short video summary of our media alert, 'The Dead And Those About To Die – Climate Protests And The Corporate Media', which was published on 17 November, 2020.

Full text:
https://www.medialens.org/2020/the-dead-and-those-about-to-die-climate-protests-and…

This is BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg’s misleading account on BBC News at Ten about Jeremy Corbyn being readmitted to the Labour Party. Corbyn had been suspended after a report was published three weeks earlier by the Equality and Human Rights Commission…

Noticing the way journalists seemed unable to resist commenting on our work, even if it was just to slag us off, Glenn Greenwald tweeted us in 2012:



‘You are really deeper in the heads of the British establishment-serving commentariat than anyone else…

A short video summary of our media alert, 'Stuck In A Lift With John Pilger – "News And How To Use It" by Alan Rusbridger'.

Alert published on 4 December 2020 and available here:

https://www.medialens.org/2020/stuck-in-a-lift-with-john-pilger-news-and-how…

David Edwards is co-editor of UK-based media watch site Media Lens and author of several books including ‘Free to be Human’, ‘The Compassionate Revolution’ and ‘Propaganda Blitz’.



The following interview was conducted on email and completed 18 December…

Julian Assange:

'The overwhelming majority of information is classified to protect political security not national security.’

Power hates being exposed. It hates having its inner machinations, its selfish priorities and ugly operations opened up to public…

The name Arnold Ridley will be familiar to many viewers of ‘Dad’s Army’, one of Britain’s best-loved TV comedies, which ran a long time ago (1968-1977) but is still shown on prime time BBC TV.



Ridley played Private Godfrey, the loveable, most doddery member…

The name Arnold Ridley will be familiar to many viewers of ‘Dad’s Army’, one of Britain’s best-loved TV comedies, which ran a long time ago (1968-1977) but is still shown on prime time BBC TV.



Ridley played Private Godfrey, the loveable, most doddery member…

As we saw in Part 1, in 1914 and again in 1939, millions of men and women welcomed war. Arnold Ridley and his pals did make this choice, but in reality the choice had been made for them by decades and centuries of the relentless ‘patriotic’ propaganda described…

The Insiders



In a 2002 interview with the Observer, the BBC’s John Cody Fidler-Simpson CBE of Kabul, to give him his full name and title, was asked to define the ‘essential qualities’ of a journalist. Simpson responded with typical left-field quirkiness:…

When we started Media Lens in 2001, we had no particular expectations. We imagined – naively, as it turned out – that if we wrote clearly and politely, using...

On the face of it, Peter Oborne is impossible.



It’s not possible to be educated at Sherborne independent school, at Cambridge University, to work as political editor of the Spectator, as chief political commentator of The Daily Telegraph, as a journalist…

On the face of it, Peter Oborne is impossible.It’s not possible to be educated at Sherborne independent school, at Cambridge University, to work as political...

We live in a war-like society; one that supports, and is in league with, the world’s number one terrorist threat: the United States of America. Corporate media propaganda plays a key role in keeping things that way.



Ten years ago this month, the US, UK…