Sesgo medi tico
Libreria de Connexions, índice temático (Edición Española)

Advocacy Journalism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A genre of journalism that intentionally and transparently adopts a non-objective viewpoint, usually for some social or political purpose.
After the Cataclysm
Postwar Indochina & the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (The Political Economy of Human Rights)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
A carefully dcoumented asessment of Western reporting on post-1975 Indochina.
Agreement on terms
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
I have come to accept that western journalists cannot accurately, let alone objectively, represent the Middle East and the Arab world. The problem is not that journalists do not always adhere to their own professional codes and methods, though that does happen. It is that even if correspondents strictly obey all the rules, they still present a fundamentally biased and skewed picture of the Middle East.
Airbrushing Barbarity
The Warped Language of Public Policy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Couching moral/political matters in technocratic language helps us forget the unpleasantness of the underlying incivility and brutality of political measures. Political discourse is fundamentally dishonest in that it airbrushes barbarity.
Al Qaeda Is Attacking Major Syrian Cities with US Weapons -- but You Wouldn't Know That from the Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Norton analyzes media coverages of attacks linked to Al-Qaeda in the West to highlight how this emphasis on Muslim extremism is used to justify Islamophobia.
An alternative media list
Getting the news - and getting behind the news
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014 Published: 2017
A selective list of English-language alternative media.
America's Capitalist Religion has Little Room for Science
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The US mainstream press accuse the Pope of being leftist. Evidence? Well, they make the claim that he is leftist because he supports the theory of global warming. My guess is that the Pope also supports the theory of gravity, which, like global warming, has a great body of scientific evidence to support it. But is science now a part of the leftist realm of influence?
America's last taboo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
The unspoken premise of the mainstream press is that no Palestinian or Arab position on Israeli police terror, settler-colonialism, or military occupation is worth hearing from.
Amid Censorship, Israel's Media Does Its Part
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Israel's media has once again chosen the low road, the one carefully couched in patriotism and praise for the right-far-right coalition government.
Anatomy of a Propaganda Blitz - Part 1
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
We live in a time when state-corporate interests are cooperating to produce propaganda blitzes intended to raise public support for the demonisation and destruction of establishment enemies. Here we will examine five key components of an effective propaganda campaign of this kind.
Anatomy of a Propaganda Blitz - Part 2: 'Hitlergate'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
As with so many propaganda blitzes, intense media coverage was triggered by 'dramatic new evidence'; namely, the discovery of a graphic posted by Naz Shah two years ago, before she became a Labour MP. The graphic shows a map of the United States with Israel superimposed in the middle, suggesting that a solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict would be to relocate Israel to the US.
Ancillary Lessons from Brexit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Apart from the substantive issues for the European elites of the Brexit referendum victory, two ancillary lessons have been thrust upon us, if we were not already wise to them. One, the contemptible character of the mainstream media. Two, the crucial importance of historical understanding.
Another Dangerous Rush to Judgment in Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The U.S. government and the mainstream media have rushed to judgment again, blaming the Syrian government for a new poison-gas attack and ignoring other possibilities, reports Robert Parry.
Anti-Palestine Media Bias Remains Untouchable Even to Canada’s Media Critics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
A recent Canadaland podcast simultaneously highlighted anti-Palestinian media bias and the fear liberal journalists’ face in discussing one of the foremost social justice issues of our time.
Apartheid Media
Disinformation and Dissent in South Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
A riveting expose of the media and its anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa as well as the intimate face of a universal war between disinformation and dissent, propaganda and truth, state control and individual rights. Through telling annecdote and cross-cultural analysis, Phelan repeatedly demonstrates that the white South African regime's downward spiral into despotism is a cautionary tale for the United States.
Assange and Posada in the Propaganda System
Mixed Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Posada's case is a dramatic illustration of the fraudulence of the so-called "War on Terror" and highlights the U.S. refusal to abide by the rule of law. Assange's case shows well the U.S. establishment's fear of the free-flow of information that might interfere with foreign policy and reveal that there are many more Posadas whose service to the empire might be disclosed. And the media's cooperation in this protection of Posada and pursuit of Assange is clear. \
Australian investigative journalist exposes Guardian/New York Times betrayal of Assange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Sources reveal new first-hand information exposing the extent of the betrayal of Julian Assange by the Guardian and the New York Times and refute lies both publications have used to smear the WikiLeaks founder.
Autonomous Media
Activating Resistance & Dissent
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Essays written by media activists examining the efforts of communities and social movements to appropriate media technologies.
BBC Joins Smear Campaign Against Assange and Wikileaks
Indicting the Messenger
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The campaign by the establishment press against Julian Assange is intensifying.
The Best Censored Stories of 1989
Resource Type: Article
Exposing an issue that was otherwise overlooked or under-reported by national news media.
The Best Censored Stories of 1989
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Between the Lines
How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
An exploration of medthods of "dec-doing" our daily newspapers and radio/TV news. Examines our predominant sources of information (mass media) and indicates the existence of many alternative sources of informaiton.
Beyond the dross
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Pilger and Platt discuss the craft of journalism.
Big media versus the people
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A look how "Big Media" shapes public attitudes, the economy, culture, leisure and education, and how governments have developed close relationships with the press in a way which has not been in the public interest.
Blair: Bombing Iraq Better. Again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The authors critique the British media's coverage of a new essay by Tony Blair which attempts to justify the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Blindspots in The News
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
The filters that determine what gets into the "news" and what doesn't.
Brothers-in-Arms: Capitalism and Corporate Journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
An essential role of corporate journalism is to shore up public confidence in an unjust, crisis-riven financial and economic system. Although plenty of gloom and doom is permitted, especially in the face of obvious crisis, the legitimacy of the system is rarely questioned.
Business journalists go on the attack; demonize Atlantic seasonal workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
National business journalists and columnists have bought into Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s demeaning view that folks in the Atlantic region are backward and have a defeatist attitude. Framed in disrespectful language, they’re promoting untested economic ideas that, if adopted, would seriously damage the economy – and the people – of the region.
Canada's right-wing media monopolies move further right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The Canadian news media landscape has changed dramatically since the Senate Committee on Transport and Communications released its underwhelming report on the state of Canadian media in 2006.
Canadian group not dealing with major free expression issue
Celebrating World Press Freedom Day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
We need to address how corporate-owned mainstream news organizations restrict the freedom of journalists and prevent the public from having access to a wide variety of important news and opinion articles. This lack of balanced information affects everything from people having the information they need to decide how to vote to all of us better understanding how power is exercised in our communities. The censorship consists of banning some topics and discussions and filtering out stories and ideas that do not fit the current mainstream media agenda.
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 5 - January 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Canadian Media in Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
How so-called "business journalism" is often biased and tends to give readers a distorted picture of the news.
CBC left-wing?
Resource Type: Article
Censored: The News That Didn't Make The News - And Why
The 1995 Project Censored Yearbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Documenting how the U.S. mass media does a shabby job, deliberately or negligently withholding information of vital importance.
The Censorious Vortex of the "Flash News" Barons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
For decades, the factors that decided what noteworthy stories would not find their way into print or on the air came down to the media's ignorance, laziness or from advertising restraints. For too long, the explosive material for good journalism in these and other areas had remained hidden in plain sight.
Champions Of Democracy - From Fake News To Imposed Insanity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
While social media is largely blamed for the proliferation of 'fake news', it is through social media where the corporate media commentariat are exposed. Readers are now at last able to see some rational dissent, this is the up-side to social media that the 'mainstream' cannot even discuss.
Chomsky on MisEducation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Chomsky critiques the education system and discusses what education could be like in a democratic society.
Chomsky, Pilger and Loach call on BBC to reflect reality of Gaza's occupation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Noam Chomsky, John Pilger and Ken Loach are among 45,000 signatories who have signed an open letter to the BBC calling on its journalists to reflect the reality of Gaza’s occupation while reporting on Israel’s current assault.
Chronicles of Dissent
Noam Chomsky Interviewed by David Barsamian
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
The Comic Book Simplicity Of Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The referendum campaign on Scottish independence heightened many people's awareness of the pro-elite bias of the 'mainstream' news media. The grassroots power of social media in exposing and countering this bias was heartening to see. But the issue of independence for Scotland is just one of many where the traditional media consistently favour establishment power.
A Comparative Review of Flat Earth News and Newspeak
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
A comparative review of two recent books about the media, one a mainstream view, the other using the propaganda model of media control.
Confessions of a Media Critic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Barrie Zwicker says that with the planet in crisis it isn't time for 'business as usual', least of all in journalism.
Connexions
Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Connexions
Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Connexions
Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Connexions
Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Conundrum - Syriza, Democracy And The Death Of A Saudi Tyrant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
It's always a tricky moment for the corporate media when a foreign leader dies. The content and tone need to be appropriate, moulded to whether that leader fell into line with Western policies or not.
Corporate Media: the Enemy of the People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
We on the Left don't need to reflexively and absurdly jump to the defense of imperial criminals at the instigation of that (well, yes) "enemy of the people" the U.S. corporate and so-called mainstream war, news, and entertainment media.
Corporate-owned media manipulation threatens Canadian democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
How freedom of expression is threatened because corporate-owned media in Canada censor and manipulate the news.
Covering Israel-Palestine: The BBC's Double Standards
An Exchange With The BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The priorities of the news media mean that the more Palestinians are killed, the less importance their deaths have to news organisations. Conversely, the fewer Israelis killed the more seriousness their deaths are accorded.
Death of a Hero
The General, The Media Adulation And The Forgotten Victims
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
If all this glorification of a military commander had happened in the North Korean or the Soviet-era press, lavishly praising an 'original' who'd given years of 'patriotic service' in wars abroad, it would have rightly elicited scorn and ridicule amongst commentators here.
The Death of the Fourth Estate
8000 Channels With One Corporate Message
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
According to a recent Gallup survey, only 40 percent of Americans believe what they read in newspapers. After scanning today’s tabloids, one only wonders why the percentage is that high.
Democracy's Oxygen
How Corporations Control the News
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.
The Demonology School of Journalism
Putin and the press
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The major influential western print media are engaged in a prolonged, large-scale effort to demonize Russian President Putin, his politics and persona. There is an article (or several articles) every day in which he is personally stigmatized as a dictator, authoritarian, czar, 'former KGB operative' and Soviet-style ruler; anything but the repeatedly elected President of Russia.
The Destruction of Freedom: Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange And The Corporate Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
The corporate media's hostility towards Assange, Manning and WikiLeaks - obvious by lack of coverage or overt antagonism - shows it is tool of the state and big business.
Deterring Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Diemer, Ulli
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
'Disgustingly Biased' - The Corporate Media On The Gaza Massacre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The bias in failing to report the brutalisation of a trapped, impoverished people under occupation is staggering.
Double Standards
Resource Type: Website
Focusing on double standards in the media and in international politics. "Double Standard 1. a rule or principle applied more strictly to some people more than others (or oneself)."
Down the Memory Hole: NYT Erases CIA's Efforts to Overthrow Syria's Government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
FAIR has noted before how America's well-documented clandestine activities in Syria have been routinely ignored when the corporate media discuss the Obama administration's "hands-off" approach to the four-and-a-half-year-long conflict.
Easily Led
A History of Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
The Egyptian Uprising in the American Media
Obscuring the Obvious
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
It is no wonder that most Americans are hopelessly in the dark. Middle East “news” in the mainstream is constructed so that people remain in a perpetual state of confusion and fear.
Eight reasons why the latest Syria chemical weapons attack allegations are almost certainly complete nonsense
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A discussion on the chemical attack in Douma, Syria, and why the allegations are likely false.
An Empire of Lies
Why Our Media Betray Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Contrary to its avowed aim, mainstream journalism invariably diminishes the impact of new events when they threaten powerful elites.
The Empire's Shill
The Real Mission of the New York Times
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The Empty Press Room - How Corporate Journalism Happily Lost Interest in Climate Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
In the media’s coverage of climate change, are we really still stuck on square one of some ghastly board game?
The Encyclopedia of Censorship
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
This Encyclopedia concentrates primarily on the United States and the United Kingdom, but it also covers events in Western and Eastern Europe and in parts of the Third World. The Encyclopedia is an accessible and wide-ranging sourcebook on censorship topics.
Everything under control, Life in a managed society
New Internationalist April 1985
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
A deluge of commercial messages are subtly undermining the consumer's ability to make autonomous decisions. Discussion of why, and how, social control is becoming the norm in Western societies.
"Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Israel has a straightforward means to defend itself: put an end to its criminal actions in occupied territories, and accept the long-standing international consensus on a two-state settlement that has been blocked by the US and Israel for over 30 years, since the US first vetoed a Security Council resolution calling for a political settlement in these terms in 1976. The Arab League has gone even beyond the consensus, calling for full normalization of relations with Israel. Hamas has repeatedly called for a two-state settlement in terms of the international consensus. Iran and Hezbollah have made it clear that they will abide by any agreement that Palestinians accept.
Eyes Like Blank Discs
The Guardian's Steven Poole On George Orwell's Politics And The English Language
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013 Published: 2014
Poole's review of Orwell is itself a textbook example of the kind of alienated response described by Orwell, Fromm and Schmidt. Whereas Orwell's essay is the work of an impassioned, outspoken individual opposing 'the machine society’, Poole's article is the work of a corporate professional operating ‘within the confines of an assigned ideology’.
Fake News About 'Fake News' - The Media Performance Pyramid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Following Brexit and Trump, mainstream media have focused on media bias and the implications of so-called fake news. The definition of fake news can be easily generalized to all corporate media, and applied to the recent focus on fake news itself.
The Flotilla In The Israeli Press
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
An analysis of Israeli media propaganda in the wake of Israel's attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.
Frame of Reference and Journalistic Integrity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A criticism of the article, "Journalism and the Illusion of Objectivity" by Michael Holtzman, challenging Holtzman's claims on the nature of objectivity and bias in reporting.
Framing the Sixties
Corporate Media Shadows and the 1960s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
What Really Happened to the 1960s is a look at the role the media played in the presentation and interpretation of the struggles of the 1960s. Simultaneously, it is a consideration of the meaning of democracy in a society where the media is owned by corporations and elites who consider democracy antithetic to their hegemony.
'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression - they are for it -in principle-, but only so long as it isn't used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
Free speech for me - you shut up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
Gaslighting The Public: Serial Deceptions By The State-Corporate Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Other than the ever-present risk of nuclear war, there is no greater threat to humanity than the climate crisis. And there is no more damning example of gaslighting by state-corporate media when they tell us we can trust governments and corporations to do what is required to avert catastrophe.
Guardian sinks into gutter on Corbyn - again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Jeremy Corbyn today launched a review into the Labour party's supposed "anti-semitism crisis" -- in fact, a crisis entirely confected by a toxic mix of the right, Israel supporters and the media. I have repeatedly pointed out that misleading claims of anti-semitism (along with much else) are being thrown at Corbyn to discredit him.
A Heartfelt Apology to Haaretz Readers
Resource Type: Article
To all offended readers, I apologize for the one-sidedness. How could I not maintain a balance between the murderer and the murdered; the thief and his victim; and the occupier and the occupied?
The Heat Is On
The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
A book discussing the ever-worsening threat of global climate change.
Hidden Agendas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Pilger's book is an indictment of Tony Blair's government and his easy acceptance of the Thacherite view of foreign affairs. Using the examples of Indonesia, East Timor, Burma, Murdoch and China he chronicles the scale and intensity of injustice around the world.
Honoring Helen Thomas
A Great Journalist, Traduced By Hacks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Helen Thomas was done in because she embarrassed the group of lap dogs who call themselves White House reporters.
How Canada's corporate media framed the Occupy movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The Occupy movement occupied two parallel, rarely intersecting universes in the corporate media. In one, described frequently in the Toronto Star, occasionally in the Vancouver Sun and Globe and Mail and only once in the National Post, Occupy is a worldwide movement created in response to the growing gap between the one percent at the top of the income-and-asset pyramid and the 99 percent below.
How Media Bias Fuels Syrian Escalation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The mainstream U.S. media now reports as "flat-fact" the Syrian government's guilt in the April 4, 2017 chemical weapons incident, but the real facts are less clear and some point in the opposite direction.
How the Guardian became the West's Pravda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Cook says that the British newspaper The Guardian has become a mouthpiece for the establishment.
How the Media Manipulated the Democratic Primary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Though it might not always seem like it, the news media is composed of human beings. Humans aren't, can’t be, and possibly shouldn't be, objective. Still, there's a reasonable expectation among consumers of political news that journalists of all political stripes strive to be as objective as possible. At their minimum, media outlets ought to be straightforward about their biases. They certainly shouldn't have, or appear to have, their thumbs on the scales.
How The Press Hides The Global Crimes Of The West: Corporate Media Coverage Of Chad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
One of the essential functions of the corporate media is to marginalise or silence acknowledgement of the history -- and continuation -- of Western imperial aggression. The coverage of the recent sentencing in Senegal of Hissène Habré, the former dictator of Chad, for crimes against humanity, provides a useful case study. The verdict could well have presented the opportunity for the media to examine in detail the complicity of the US, UK, France and their major allies in the Middle East and North Africa in the appalling genocide Habré inflicted on Chad during his rule - from 1982 to 1990. After all, Habré had seized power via a CIA-backed coup.
How to Write about Haiti
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
How to make sure that you stick to the tried and proven cliches.
How Truth Slips Down The Memory Hole
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
John Pilger, applies to current events Orwell's description in '1984' of how the Ministry of Truth consigned embarrassing truth to a memory hole. He highlights the killing of a Palestinian cameraman by the Israelis as an example of how "we" are trained to look on the rest of the world as quite unlike ourselves: useful or expendable.
Hypocrisy Reigns
Don't Forsake the Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
When Israel labels as "terrorists" the ship passengers who offered some resistance to the Israeli invaders, who points out that the passengers who resisted the 9-11 highjackers on the plane which crashed in Pennsylvania are called "heroes"?
The Ideal of a Free Media Died Long Ago
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Should the media include positive editorial content secretly paid for by major corporations, as London's Evening Standard newspaper has begun doing, according to new revelations?
Most of us instantly recoil from any blurring between editorial and advertising in the media. How would we know if what was reported was factual, truthful and newsworthy or there simply as public relations spin? How could we trust anything we read?
Ideological Violence and Sociopathic Rage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
‘How can we distinguish violence driven by ideology from sociopathic rage?
If U.S. Mass Media Were State-Controlled, Would They Look Any Different?
Snowden Coverage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The Edward Snowden leaks have revealed a U.S. corporate media system at war with independent journalism. Many of the same outlets that missed the Wall Street meltdown and cheer-led the Iraq invasion have come to resemble state-controlled media outlets in their near-total identification with the government.
The Illusion of Debate
Consensus for the People that Matter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A recent article in FAIR reviewed the findings of its latest study on the quality of political “debate” being aired on the mainstream networks. It studied the run-up to the military interventions in both Iraq and Syria. Perhaps the arbiters of the study intended to illustrate what we’ve learned since the fraudulent Iraq War of 2003. Well, it appears we’ve learned nothing.
The Illusion of Democracy
Liberal Journalism, Wikileaks And Climate Deceptions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
In an era of permanent war, economic meltdown and climate ‘weirding’, we need all the champions of truth and justice that we can find. But where are they? What happened to trade unions, the green movement, human rights groups, campaigning newspapers, peace activists, strong-minded academics, progressive voices?
The Imaginary Cuban Troops in Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Fair-and-balanced Fox News reported on Wednesday that "Cuban military operatives reportedly have been spotted in Syria, where sources believe they are advising President Bashar al-Assad’s soldiers and may be preparing to man Russian-made tanks to aid Damascus in fighting rebel forces backed by the U.S." Fox's claim of an imaginary enemy alliance relies on two sources: the University of Miami's Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies and an anonymous U.S. official.
In Mexico, Finally, a Revolt Against the Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The summer will determine if the “I Am 132” moment becomes a movement and that’s why “Mexican Spring” is a poor choice of words for it.
Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The media response to Assange’s asylum request tells us much about the default brutality and reflexive herdthink of elite corporate journalism. The crucial importance of his achievements, of his cause, was deemed utterly irrelevant beside his allegedly unbearable personal failings.
The Inquisition of Climate Science
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
The Inquisition of Climate Science is the first book to comprehensively take on the climate science denial movement and the deniers themselves, exposing their lack of credentials, their extensive industry funding, and their failure to provide any alternative theory to explain the observed evidence of warming. Lawrence Powell's book clearly reveals that the evidence of global warming is real and that an industry of denial has deceived the American public, putting them and their grandchildren at risk.
Intellectual Cleansing Part 1
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Keeping the media safe for big business.
Intellectual Cleansing: Part 2
Former Guardian and Observer Journalist Jonathan Cook Responds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Most ambitious journalists start out on a daily local newspaper owned by one of a handful of large media groups. There one quickly feels all sorts of institutional constraints on one's reporting. As a young journalist, if you know no better, you simply come to accept that journalism is done in a certain kind of way, that certain stories are suitable and others unsuitable.
Intellectual Cleansing: Part 3
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The tendency to self-deception appears to be greatly increased when we join as part of a group. Groups create a sense of belonging, a "we-feeling", which can provide even greater incentives to reject painful truths.
Introduction: Project Censored 25th Anniversary
In Peter Phillips (ed.), Project Censored 2001
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Chomsky examines "Project Censored" and its contents, revealing a telling pattern: the stories all appeal to public rather corporate-state interests. Such an observation poses questions of media ownership and censorship in relationship to democracy.
Introduction to the Media Guide
Resource Type: Article
An introduction to "Media for Social Change."
Inventing Reality
The Politics of News Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
Islamic Peril
Media And Global Violence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Israel/Palestine Lexicon For Mainstream Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
If you are writing for mainstream media, you need to learn special uses of words and phrases that are specific to Israel/Palestine. If you use common usage, you will run into confusions, paradoxes, and hostile responses from pro-Israel people. Please follow these guidelines and you will have no problems with editors, politicians, or organized pro-Israel groups. For each phrase, this guide will present first (a) the common usage, and then (b) the specific Israel/Palestine usage that you must use in order to write for major US (and UK and Canadian of course) media (NYT, Toronto Star, BBC, CBC, etc.)
Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2006 Published: 2014
A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the situation in Isreal/Palestine based on peace, justice, and human rights.
John Pilger: The dirty war on WikiLeaks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
War by media, says current military doctrine, is as important as the battlefield. This is because the real enemy is the public at home, whose manipulation and deception is essential for starting an unpopular colonial war.
Jonathan Cook - Response to Intellectual Cleansing Part 1
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
However grateful we should be to the tiny minority of dissident writers, their relegation to the margins of the commentary pages of Britain's 'leftwing' media serves a useful purpose for corporate interests. It helps define the 'character' of the British media as provocative, pluralistic and free-thinking - when in truth they are anything but. It is a vital component in maintaining the fiction that a professional media is a diverse media.
Journalism and 'the words of power'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
More and more today, we journalists have become prisoners of the language of power.
JournalismSources.com
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2017
A portal featuring news, articles, and resources about journalism, press freedom, free speech, censorship and related topics. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
Keeping the Rabble in Line
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Interviews with Noam Chomsky covering issues such as free trade, health care, global warming, the nature of corporations, human rights, and democracy.
Keller's Hatchet Job
The NYT vs. Assange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
For evidence of the sorry state of honesty and integrity in American public life, one need go no further than the New New York Times.
Killing Corbyn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The 'Brexit' referendum vote, split 52% to 48% in favour of leaving the European Union, has been exploited by the 'mainstream' media to launch yet another assault on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Kyrgyzstan's dubious success
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
In Kyrgyzstan, everyone is better off - except for the vast majority of the population.
The Left-Wing Media Fallacy
Jeremy Bowen, The BBC, And Other National Treasures
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The issue is not complex, not esoteric: in a world dominated by corporate power we rely on media corporations for news about that world. Future generations will surely be aghast that so few people today are able to perceive the perfectly obvious problem, the very clear source of mass control, that this implies.
Letters from Lexington
Reflections on Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
The "Liberal" Media’s Propaganda War on Bernie Sanders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
'A Load Of Tosh'– The BBC, 'Showbiz News' And State Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
BBC News reporting on international relations, with particular reference to 2017-2018 tensions with Russia, relies heavily on state propaganda.
The lying silence of those who know
Holocaust Denied
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
In every war, Israel has had the same objective: the expulsion of the native people and the theft or more and more land.
Mainstream Media Bias on 2020 Democratic Race Already in High Gear
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Mainstream media pundits undermine the chances of progressive candidates like Bernie Sanders despite the defeat of centrist politicians by the right.
'The Man Who Knew Everyone' - Gore Vidal Through The Eyes Of The One Per Cent Press
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Since Gore Vidal's death the corporate media have had nothing serious to say about his political dissent warning against the dominance of corporate power. As Vidal himself put it: ‘The bullshit just flows and flows and flows, and the American media is so corrupt and so tied into it that it never questions it.’
Manufacturing Consent
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1992
A film about Noam Chomsky's ideas about the media, ideology, propaganda, and elite control of society's institutions.
Manufacturing Consent
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
An analysis of the media's prediliction for "politics of confrontation" in America in the late 60's. He focuses on how the media distorted the anti-war movement.
The Media Against Jeremy Corbyn
The British media has launched an unprecedented campaign of disinformation against Jeremy Corbyn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The British media has never had much time for Jeremy Corbyn. Within a week of his election as Labour Party leader in September, it was engaging in a campaign the Media Reform Coalition characterized as an attempt to "systematically undermine" his position. In an avalanche of negative coverage 60 percent of all articles which appeared in the mainstream press about Corbyn were negative with only 13 percent positive. The newsroom, ostensibly the objective arm of the media, had an even worse record: 62 percent negative with only 9 percent positive.
The Media and the Far Right
Showcasing the Crude, the Violent and the Aberrant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The right-moving trend of the mainstream media, absurdly deemed liberal by successfully intimidating corporatists and ideological aggressors, continues year after year.
The Media and the Paranoid State
Das Bild to FoxNews
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
In 1975, West Germany was often under varying degrees of lockdown. Roadblocks were set up at autobahn exits and identification was checked; groups of heavily armed police were seen in city centers holding machine guns and looking menacing; and airports were under armed guard. The reason given for this military-like presence was the existence of a leftist terror group known as the Rote Armee Fraktion.
Media Are Blamed as US Bombing of Afghan Hospital Is Covered Up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
After the US airstrikes that hit an MSF (Medecins Sans Frontières) hospital, many news outlets have depicted the event in a way that evades any American responsibility.
Media bias on the Middle East
Resource Type: Website
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Part of the Palestine: Information with Provenance (PIWP database). Provides documents from all points on the ideological spectrum, both Zionist and anti-Zionist, along with background on everybody whose opinion you find here. Also lets you see what our sources say about each other.
Media Control
The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997 Published: 2002
Chomsky begins by asserting two models of democracy: one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky "propaganda is to democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state," and the mass media is the primary vehicle for delivering propaganda in the United States.
Media Review: Fake News
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Richard Seymour looks at the current debate around 'fake news'. What does the term refer to and is it as new as we think?
Media Think
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diverse perspectives on events and issues, the media portray an increasingly dogmatic and orthodox corporate picture of the world around us. The consistency with which they do this has its consequent, intended effect on public opinion and policy formation.
Medialens
Resource Type: Website
Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media.
MediaLens is a response based on our conviction that mainstream newspapers and broadcasters provide a profoundly distorted picture of our world. We are convinced that the increasingly centralised, corporate nature of the media means that it acts as a de facto propaganda system for corporate and other establishment interests. The costs incurred as a result of this propaganda, in terms of human suffering and environmental degradation, are incalculable.
In seeking to understand the basis and operation of this systematic distortion, we flatly reject all conspiracy theories and point instead to the inevitably corrupting effects of free market forces operating on and through media corporations seeking profit in a society dominated by corporate power.
MediaSources.ca
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2017
A web portal featuring resources about media and the media industry, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
The Medium is The Middleman: For a Revolution Against Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Media now controls a new economic order: one that has supplanted governments, churches and productive industry to impose a mediating tyranny over people and our Daily Lives.
Misrepresented? Hugo Chavez and the Western Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
An interview with Julia Buxton about Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, and target of concerted criticism in the western media.
The Missing News
Filters and Blind Spots in Canada's Press
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Asks a number of questions, including: How well do the news media filter reality, for what purposes, through what processes and in whose interests? How do newspapers and TV stations choose what news is printed or aired, which letters will be published, or who will be accorded credibility?
The Most Enduring Media Cover Up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Clearing the FOG hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese interviewed Alison Weir, journalist and founder of If Americans Knew, a website that provides factual information about the Israeli State and Palestine.
Murdoch's Politics
How One Man's Thirst For Wealth and Power Shapes our World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
McKnight tracks Murdoch's influence, from his support for Reagan and Thatcher, his deal with Tony Blair and attacks on Barack Obama. He examines the secretive corporate culture of News Corporation: its private political seminars for editors, its support for think tanks and its global campaigns on issues like Iraq and climate change.
Necessary Illusions
Thought Control in Democratic Societies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989 Published: 1991
An inquiry into the nature of the media and the role of intellectuals in "a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force, and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control."
Neocon con game: First deprive public institutions of their ability to act, then blame them for not acting
Margaret Wente's Chutzpah
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
The neocon con game: first deprive public institutions of their ability to act, then blame them for not acting
News and Dissent: The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada - Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Review of News and Dissent: The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada, by Robert Hackett.
News Media Stifle Ideas and Debate
Review of Democracy's Oxygen: How Corporations Control the News
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Far from providing democracy's oxygen, as they claim, the news media today legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informed, they manufacture public consent for policies which favour their owners: the corporate elite.
Newspeak in the 21st Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Revealing the lethal bias in 'balanced' reporting.
Noam Chomsky and Over 100 Intellectuals Denounce 'Savage' Media Treatment of Britain's Jeremy Corbyn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
"We do not expect journalists to give any elected leader an easy ride," a letter published in The Guardian and signed by more than 100 intellectuals reads, "but Corbyn has been treated from the start as a problem to be solved rather than as a politician to be taken seriously."
Noam Chomsky And The BBC: A Brief Comparison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A recent interview with 88-year-old Noam Chomsky once again demonstrates just how insightful he is in providing rational analysis of Western power and the suffering it generates. By contrast, anyone relying on BBC News receives a power-friendly view of the world, systematically distorted in a way that allows the state and private interests to pursue business as usual.
Nuclear War And Corbyn - The Fury And The Farce
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The British media is outraged that La bour leader Jeremy Corbyn won't press the nuclear button under any circumstances.
One-sided discussion of free trade avoids key issues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
'Business' is also about the people who actually work in the offices, factories, and farms, who are so profoundly affected by what happens in the world of capital.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2015
SYRIZA
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
This week we're featuring the 40-point program which SYRIZA, the Greek coalition of the radical left, put forward to win the Greek election. Oliver Tickell writes about the mass media's latest campaign of pro-war propaganda, this time revolving around supposed "Russian aggression" in Ukraine, while Paul Edwards looks at another form of war propaganda, Clint Eastwood's 'American Sniper'. The Topic of the Week is Water Rights. Related items include the film "Blue Gold: World Water Wars," the featured website International Rivers, and articles on water-related struggles, past and present, including articles on the Walkerton water disaster and the Cochabamba water war.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 26, 2015
Ukraine
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Ukraine is spotlighted in this issue of Other Voices, with several articles on the events of the past year, from the overthrow of the government, to the rise of the far right, the armed conflict in the east, and aggressive US/NATO moves setting the stage for a possible nuclear war between the US and Russia. Also in this issue, #DomesticExtremists ridicule police state legislation in the UK, world inequality in one simple graphic, and people's history items about mass strikes in the First World War, and the new People's Archive of Rural India.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 2, 2016
Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Brexit, the British vote to leave the European Union, has thrown the political elites into turmoil and confusion. The referendum was supposed to be a safe political manoeuvre, a way to produce an appearance of democratic legitimacy for the profoundly undemocratic structures of the EU. The gambit turned out to be a spectacular miscalculation, as millions of people turned out to express their opposition to a state of affairs that is leaving the majority worse off while enriching a small minority. This issue of Other Voices looks at the Brexit referendum, elite loathing for democracy, and the related attempt to get rid of Labour's leftwing leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 20, 2016
Fake News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
"Fake news" is the latest mania to convulse the mainstream media. All at once, we're being subjected to an outbreak of hand-wringing articles and commentary about obscure websites which are supposedly poisoning public opinion and undermining democracy by spreading "fake news." Since we don't like to be left out when a new fad comes on the scene, Other Voices is jumping on the bandwagon too, with this, our last issue of 2016, devoted to "fake news." Our focus, however, is not so much on the crackpots and trolls making mischief on the fringes, but on the dominant actors in the fake news business: governments and the corporate and state media.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 30, 2017
Affirming life, resisting war, reporting UFOs
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
What do we do when those in power recklessly put the future of the entire planet at risk with their acts of aggression and military provocations, while they ignore the growing disaster of climate change? We fight back and organize, on every level, wherever we are, doing whatever offers the hope of resisting and of building a movement that can stop and overturn the out-of-control monster of late capitalism.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 28, 2017
Resisting Injustice
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
In this issue, we look at the relentless persistence of people challenging injustice and entrenched power in places around the world, including Palestine, Korea, China, Canada, and the United States. We spotlight the hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners languishing in Israeli prisons, workers’ strikes in China, and people in South Korea taking on a corrupt government. In the United States, the Equal Justice Initiative is collecting soil from places where blacks were lynched as a way of remembering their lives and the brutally racist society that murdered them. An article on recent terrorist attacks in Britain asks what underlies ideological violence and sociopathic rage. Ralph Nader asks why people who are supposed to be professional questioners avoid asking hard questions of those in power.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 25, 2018
Looking for Answers, Creating Alternatives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2018
This issue of Other Voices features people who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.
'Our Only Fear Was That He Might Pull His Punches' - BBC Caught Manipulating The News
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The position of BBC political editor plays an important role in this propaganda system. His or her function is essentially to tell the public what leading politicians say or even 'think'. It is certainly not to question power or challenge government authority in any meaningful way.
Out Lickspittle Press
Doorkeepers to the House of Lies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Today no one believes that our country’s success depends on an informed public and a free press. America’s success depends on its financial and military hegemony over the world. Any information inconsistent with the indispensable people’s god-given right to dominate the world must be suppressed and the messenger discredited and destroyed.
Painting a false picture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A review of the book "The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel and the Media" by Greg Shupak.
Palestine Media Watch
Resource Type: Website
PMWATCH was established to promote fair and accurate coverage of the Israeli occupation of Palestine in the US mainstream media. In broad terms, our mission is two-fold: (1) identify, report on, and protest clear journalistic failures by the US media in covering the conflict, and (2) help media outlets with access to pro-Palestinian points of view and voices for interviews, op-eds, or background discussions, whether here in the United States, in Israel, or in the Occupied Territories. Includes tools and suggestions for action on media bias.
The Power of the Israel Lobby
Two knights and a dragon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
The Israel Lobby has shifted more and more to the Right. The billionaires who finance the Lobby are the same people who finance the extreme Israeli Right, and most of all the settlers.
Powers and Prospects
Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Pro-Israel stance reeks of double standards and historical amnesia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Israel bombs, terrorizes and kills as it pleases, on a daily basis, and the media praise it for its restraint.
Profit over People
Neoliberalism and Global Order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Chomsky confronts neoliberalsim: the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide.
Propaganda Blitz: How the Corporate Media Distort Reality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
A look at how corporate media distort the news. Uses recent examples such as the Scottish Independence referendum.
Propaganda model
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A theory that alleges systemic biases in the mass media and seeks to explain them in terms of structural economic causes. Views the private media as businesses interested in the sale of a product - readers and audiences - to other businesses (advertisers) rather than that of quality news to the people.
Publish It Not!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
How Israel controls the way the international 'liberal' media portray its illegal and vicious occupation of Palestine and why the media allow them to get away with it.
Pure Propaganda - The Great Global Warming Swindle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
The Scientists Are The Bad Guys.
Putin on the Ritz
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Forgive the word-play; colossal demonization notwithstanding, I’ll go with Putin and Russia over Obama, the US, Rasmussen, Cameron, friends and allies everywhere. America has an unerring nose for smelling Fascism and quickly joining ranks. Today Putin used the political “F” word correctly, and for that I honor him.
Race and Class: What the Jena 6 Case Shows
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Some 50,000 people converged on the small Louisiana town of Jena on September 20. The protest shook up not only the two-stoplight town but sent a loud siren across the country. The 85% white population had never seen anything like this — a Black-led protest against modern-day racism.
Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2006 Published: 2017
Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radical left-libertarian Marxist perspective.
Radical Digressions 2
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1981 Published: 2000
Radical Digressions 3
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2001 Published: 2006
Radical Digressions 4
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2006 Published: 2008
Radical Digressions 5
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2008
The Real Terror Network
Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Herman sets out to show that the U.S. ignores or sponsors terror by authoritarian states that are allied with U.S. interests.
Review of the Press: Portugal 1974
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
The subtext of mainstream media coverage of social upheavals in post-fascist Portugal is that a return to dictatorship is necessary and inevitable to preserve the social order.
The Right Kind Of Terror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
When is an act of terrorism not terrorism? When the victims are officially sanctioned state enemies.
Rupert's Empire of Slime
Murdoch's Knife in the Heart of Journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
In the name of freedom of the press Rupert’s Fox News and commentators spew verbal venom on notions that smack of socialist, pink or liberal thought – like taxing billionaires and regulating their corporate and banking behavior. Indeed, the Foxers promote billionaires not paying taxes as an example of virtue and freedom. “You don’t want your government squandering taxpayers’ money.” Sure, imagine life without cops, firemen, schools, road repair service, etc.
Selective Outrage - Iran And Libya
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Shadows of Liberty
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2012
Examines the new media monopoly by corporations in America and the public battle for truth and democracy.
A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense
Find Your Inner Chomsky
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005 Published: 2008
What must a citizen in a democracy know to make the word democracy meaningful? Baillargeon provides readers with the tools to see through everyday spin and jargon -- from politics to advertising, from mysticism to news reporting.
Six Media Companies Control 90% of What We Read, Watch and Listen to
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Six Ways the Media Has Misreported Syria
How One-Sided Reporting is Facilitating Escalation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The Western mainstream media’s coverage of the Syrian conflict has been mostly simplistic and black & white with a Hollywoodian good (opposition) and evil (Syrian government) story.
The Sixteenth Puerto Rican Political Prisoner: The Case of José Solís
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
On Friday, March 12, 1999, a new name was added to the list of fifteen Puerto Rican political prisoners currently held in American jails: José Solís Jordán. That day, a federal jury in Chicago found Solís, a professor at the University of Puerto Rico and father of five, guilty of bombing a U.S. Army recruitment office in that city in 1992. No one was killed or hurt in the bombing.
Socialist Register 2006:
Volume 42: Telling the Truth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life.
Some Deaths Really Matter
The Disproportionate Coverage of Israeli And Palestinian Killings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Israeli deaths matter much more than Palestinian deaths. This has long been a distinguishing feature of Western news media reporting on the Middle East. The recent blanket coverage afforded to the brutal killing of three Israeli teenagers highlights this immutable fact.
Some Standard Cynical CIA-Style Cuba Covid Reporting at The Washington Post
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Imperial cynics and propagandists can only see the world through the lens of cynicism and propaganda, which they project on to others.
The Sources HotLink
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1996 Published: 2009
A website and newsletter dealing with media relations strategies.
Sources Select Resources
Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1977 Published: 2009
Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
Spinwars
Politics and New Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
The Star's biased reporting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
The Star's Orwellian journalism.
Taking the Risk Out of Democracy
Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995 Published: 1997
The twentieth-century history of corporate propaganda practiced by U.S. businesses and the ways in which such corporate propaganda was exported to, and adopted by, other western democracies especially the United Kingdom and Australia.
Telling It
Women and Language Across Cutures
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Ten Best Censored Stories of 1988
Resource Type: Article
Documenting the failure of the mass media to provide Americans with all the information they need to make informed decisions.
Thinking The Right Thoughts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
There are always convenient news-hooks on which corporate journalists can hang their power-friendly prejudices about the West being 'the good guys' in world affairs. The authors provide examples from the British media.
Time to Confront the Media's Anti-Corbyn Bias
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Jeremy Corbyn has been subjected to unprecedented vilification by the British media. No one is surprised that the Daily Mail, Telegraph and Times have been relentless in their hatchet jobs on Corbyn. But it has been disconcerting for the left that the Guardian and BBC never gave him a chance either. He was in their gun-sights from day one.
Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Provides a list and indepth analysis of the top 25 stories that were censored throughout the year in 2009.
Toronto Star Supports the Perpetrators of War Crimes in Ukraine
Crazed Warmongers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Toronto Star has distinguished itself for supporting the fundraising projects of Ukraine's extreme-right parties and militias.
Tracking the News that Wasn't
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
A review of two books about media bias and censorship.
Truth About Global Warming
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Review of The Heat is On: The High Stakes Battle Over Earth's Threatened Climate, by Ross Gelbspan.
Turn off the Canadian Media, Please
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
If you want to have the first idea what is happening in Israel/Palestine (or most of the rest of the world), the best thing to do would be to turn the Canadian media off completely.
Ukraine's Nazis: Who are they, why are they so influential — and why have media ignored them?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A recent festival in Kiev proudly displayed Nazi symbols and even advertised 'White Pride' – yet received almost no attention from Western media, who still steadfastly pretend there are no Nazis in Ukraine, neo- or otherwise.
Uncovering Canadian Media's Devastating Pro-Israel Bias
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
The bias is enforced at every level of the media, from editorial boards all the way to ownership.
Uncovering the Sixties
Life and Times of the Undergound Press
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered themselves in print.
U.S. Newspapers Are More Than Twice As Likely to Cite Israeli Sources in Headlines Than Palestinian Ones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A study of 50 years of news headlines on the Israel-Palestine conflict from five major American publications shows that they are biased towards the Israeli side.
Unlocking Uncle Sam's House of Horrors
Smashing Plato's Cave
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The effects of Wikileaks in showing the public what is really happening.
Unreliable Sources
A Guide to Detecting Bias in the New Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Lee and Solomon argue that American news media censor actual current events. The reason being is that there is pressure from the Government and Corporations. The public must challenge the facts of both electronic and print media.
US-Funded NGO in Syria Uses Old Photo to Claim Civilian Death in Russian Airstrikes
Group Lashes Russian Official on Twitter for Noting Picture Wasn't Real
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The "White Helmets" organization, heavily funded by the US State Department, has claimed that Russia killed 33 civilians in its attacks. The NGO attached a photo to the story which was pointed out to be from an incident five days prior and not related to Russia.
US Lies and Excuses for Bombing Hospital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Here is the US changing its story for the FOURTH time of why it launched an air strike on the Doctors without Borders hospital in the Afghan town of Kunduz at the weekend, massacring at least 22 patients and hospital staff.
US Propaganda Campaign to Demonize Russia in Full Gear over One-Sided Dutch/Aussie Report on Flight 17 Downing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
If the danger of the anti-Putin, anti-Russian disinformation propaganda campaign out of the Pentagon and promoted by the US corporate media weren’t so serious, the effort itself might be laughable.
Venezuela Blitz - Part 2: Press Freedom, Sanctions And Oil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Analysis of corporate coverage of Venezuela reveals: reporting on the supposed lack of free press, and rarely mentioning the US's interest in their oil and effect of sanctions on the country.
Venezuela Coverage Takes Us Back to Golden Age of Lying About Latin America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Corporate media has many stories about food and medicine shortages in Venezuela. These lies and others are debunked by someone who lives there.
Venezuela: Maduro survives assassination attempt -- but journalism doesn't
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Venezuela was rocked on August 5, 2018 by an attempt to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro during a public event, using drones armed with explosives.But as more details of the attack became available, mainstream media coverage sought to sow doubt on the events, using words such as "apparent" or "alleged". It focused on the government using this "alleged" event to step up repression.
The War Against "Fake News" is a War on Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Barely a day passes without a new development in the war on social media -- that is, the war on us. Today, it is a report that Twitter has emailed hundreds of thousands of its users, warning them that they shared "Russian propaganda".
War by media and the triumph of propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The world is facing the prospect of major war, perhaps nuclear war -- with the United States clearly determined to isolate and provoke Russia and eventually China. This truth is being turned upside down and inside out by journalists, including those who promoted the lies that led to the bloodbath in Iraq in 2003. The times we live in are so dangerous and so distorted in public perception that propaganda is no longer, as Edward Bernays called it, an "invisible government". It is the government. It rules directly without fear of contradiction and its principal aim is the conquest of us: our sense of the world, our ability to separate truth from lies.
Why are young journalists not taught to understand media agendas and to challenge the high claims and low purpose of fake objectivity? And why are they not taught that the essence of so much of what's called the mainstream media is not information, but power?
War by media and the triumph of propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The world is facing the prospect of major war, perhaps nuclear war -- with the United States clearly determined to isolate and provoke Russia and eventually China. This truth is being turned upside down and inside out by journalists, including those who promoted the lies that led to the bloodbath in Iraq in 2003. The times we live in are so dangerous and so distorted in public perception that propaganda is no longer, as Edward Bernays called it, an "invisible government". It is the government. It rules directly without fear of contradiction and its principal aim is the conquest of us: our sense of the world, our ability to separate truth from lies.
Why are young journalists not taught to understand media agendas and to challenge the high claims and low purpose of fake objectivity? And why are they not taught that the essence of so much of what's called the mainstream media is not information, but power?
The War on Democracy
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2007
This film by John Pilger explores the current and past relationship of Washington with Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile.
The War on Venezuela is Built on Lies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Maduro, like Chavez before him, is a fairly elected leader with support from the people. Talk of his 'illegitmacy' is propaganda in service of the coup.
War, Peace and the Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983 Published: 1985
Zwicker argues that press coverage of the USSR is "profoundly uninformative, a journalistic yawn that is helping us sleepwalk toward the biggest slumber of all time: nuclear war."
Weapons of Mass Persuasion
Marketing the War Against Iraq
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Rutherford, an academic and media critic at the University of Toronto, tries to show how the marketing campaign for the war against Iraq was constructed and carried out with the aid of a compliant media.
What About a Right of Reply?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Concern about press intrusion is overshadowing the need for a 'right of reply' to redress inaccurate and inflammatory reporting.
What 'Democracy' Really Means in U.S. and New York Times Jargon: Latin America Edition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
One of the most accidentally revealing media accounts highlighting the real meaning of "democracy" in U.S. discourse is a still-remarkable 2002 New York Times Editorial on the U.S.-backed military coup in Venezuela, which temporarily removed that country’s democratically elected (and very popular) president, Hugo Chávez.
What is Objective Journalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Despite objectivity being widely accepted as a norm in journalism, Edwards discusses how opinion and bias are still an inherent part of 'reporting the facts.'
What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Noam Chomsky shares his approach to analyzing media and reveals the meaning and consequence of the strategic design of communication.
What Uncle Sam Really Wants
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and paints a vivid picture of the realities faced by social movements.
Whatever Happened to Al Jazeera?
All the News That's Fit to Slant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
In Al Jazeera’s early days in the mid and late 1990s, the channel took on taboo subjects and proudly challenged the status quo. In recent months, however, Al Jazeera has begun to change course. It has deviated from its journalistic responsibilities in Libya, and is now completely losing the plot with Syria. The channel is in urgent need to revisit its own code of ethics.
When BBC Calls, Don’t Answer..
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
In any event, my advice to the media savvy, is that if you have caller ID, and you can tell that it is BBC calling, don’t bother answering. I hope I have the good sense to follow my own advice should the phone ever ring again!
When journalists forget that murder is murder
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
When Israelis are involved, our moral compass, our ability to report the truth, dries up.
When Populism is Dangerous for Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
George Galloway’s stunning victory in last week’s Bradford West by-election afforded a rare opportunity to witness naked imbalance, establishment scorn of any challenges, and blatant anti-Muslim propaganda in the corporate British media.
Who Is An Objective Journalist?
Agents of the Status Quo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The false dichotomy between journalists and activists.
Who, or What, Is Behind Postmedia's Election Endorsements?
When hedge funds own newspapers, it's difficult to know
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Did thoughtful editors at Postmedia's daily newspapers across Canada consider the needs of their communities and then unanimously decide to endorse the Conservatives in election editorials?
Who Should Bomb Iran First?
The Myth Of Left-Leaning Media Bias
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Mainstream media discussions of media balance are limited to a single question: Is the media too critical of powerful interests?
Who Speaks for the Climate?
Making Sense of Media Reporting on Climate Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
This book helps students, academic researchers and interested members of the public explore how the media portray climate change and how they shape the spectrum of possibilities for policy action. Providing a bridge between academic research and real world developments, Boykoff makes sense of media reporting of climate change.
Why Are We The Good Guys?
Reclaiming Your Mind From The Delusions Of Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
One of the unspoken assumptions of the Western world is that we are great defenders of human rights, a free press and the benefits of market economics. Mistakes might be made along the way, perhaps even tragic errors of judgement. But the prevailing view is that the West is essentially a force for good in the wider world. Why Are We The Good Guys? is a provocative challenge of this false ideology.
Why Are We The Good Guys? - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
One of the unspoken assumptions of the Western world is that ‘we’ are great defenders of human rights, a free press and the benefits of market economics. Mistakes might be made along the way, perhaps even tragic errors of judgement. But the prevailing view is that 'the West' is essentially a force for good in the wider world. Why Are We The Good Guys? is a provocative challenge to this false ideology.
Why Canada must limit the influence of corporate media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Traditional news departments follow unwritten but well-understood guidelines concerning what they should not cover. Most people in the newsrooms have been so thoroughly indoctrinated in corporate ideology that they seldom suggest a story that falls outside of the guidelines.
Why does the CBC invariably turn to American experts to explain any issue?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Based on what we hear on the CBC, we can only assume that there is an internal policy manual which mandates that all discussions on issues of more than strictly local importance must include at least one American expert.
Why does the language of journalism fail indigenous people?
A journalist with indigenous roots reflects on the making of We Are Still Here: A Story from Native Alaska.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A journalist with Indigenous roots reflects on the difficulty of doing justice to the community she is filming a documentary about. Historical misrepresentation due to lack of cross-cultural understanding has led to a distrust of the media.
Why the Guardian axed Nafeez Ahmed's blog
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Nafeez Ahmed’s account of the sudden termination of his short-lived contract to write an environment blog for the Guardian is depressingly instructive – and accords with my own experiences as a journalist at the paper.
Why the Swedish Left Lost
An Analysis of the Electoral Fiasco and Lessons for the Democrats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Analysts and political leaders on the left focus on how the right wing's lies go unfiltered by the establishment mass media. The media bias theory has some plausibility but the limit to the media-bias argument is that the extremist Sweden Democrats largely faced a media blackout but still managed to be one of the biggest winners in the electoral system.
Why the Washington Post Killed the Story of Murdoch’s Bid to Buy the US Presidency
Carl Bernstein Caught in the Matrix
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Why Won't American Media Tell the Truth About What's Happening in Venezuela?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Unlike Brazil and Argentina, Venezuela has been victimized by a number of factors outside of its control, but especially a precipitous drop in the price of oil, the country's main source of revenue.
Wikileaks Exposes Complicity of the Press
Documents Show NYT and Washington Post Shilling for US Government on Iran Missile "Threat"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
A key Wikileaks document which should have resulted in stories calling into question the thrust of the Obama administration's ballistic missile defense policy in Europe based on an alleged Iranian missile threat has instead produced a spate of stories buttressing anti-Iran hysteria.
Won't Get Fooled Again? Hyping Syria's WMD 'Threat'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012 Published: 2013
Reading about crimes of state over many years, it is tempting to try to fathom the mind-set of political leaders. What actually is going on in their heads when they order sanctions that kill hundreds of thousands of children? What is in their hearts when they wage needless wars that shatter literally millions of lives? Similar questions come to mind as the US and UK governments once again raise the spectre of ‘weapons of mass destruction’ to demonise a target for ‘regime change’, this time in Syria.
Wretched US Journalism on Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The most dangerous violation of journalistic principles has occurred in the Ukraine crisis, which has the potential of a nuclear war.
The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel and the Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
The Wrong Story lays bare the flaws in the way large media organizations present the Palestine–Israel issue. It points out major fallacies in the fundamental conceptions that underpin their coverage, namely that Palestinians and Israelis are both victims to comparable extents and are equally responsible for the failure to find a solution; that the problem is "extremists," often religiously-motivated ones, who need to be sidelined in favour of “moderates”; and that Israel’s uses of force are typically justifiable acts of self-defense.
Weaving together the existing literature with new insights, Shupak offers an up-to-date and tightly focused guide that exposes the distorted way these issues are presented and why each is misguided.

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