- 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 Published: 1979 A carefully dcoumented asessment of Western reporting on post-1975 Indochina.
- Agreement on terms
Resource Type: Article 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 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 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.
- Aleppo boy versus Mosul girl: How the Western MSM peddles war propaganda
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 While much of the developed world knows of 'Aleppo boy' Omran Daqneesh, how many have heard of an equally tragic story involving a five-year-old girl named Hawraa, the sole survivor of a US-coordinated airstrike on her home in Mosul?
- All the news that's fit to miss: blind spots in Canadian reporting (book review)
Resource Type: Article Published: 2000
- An alternative media list
Getting the news - and getting behind the news Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 A selective list of English-language alternative media.
- American Media Ignore Major Murdoch News Corp Scandal
Rupert's Misdeeds Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Americas corporate news media love highlighting David-besting-Goliath stories
except apparently, when the fallen Goliath is major media mogul Rupert Murdoch the billionaire owner of Americas caustic FOX News and other entities.
- The American right is trapped in a hyperbolic and dysfunctional world
To have credibility within the Republican party is to have none outside it. Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 On the Republican primary race and the problem of credibility that socially conservative candidates who mobilize the Republican base will face in a general election regarding their appeal to centrist voters.
- America's Capitalist Religion has Little Room for Science
Resource Type: Article 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 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.
- Anatomy of a Propaganda Blitz - Part 1
Resource Type: Article 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 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.
- Another Dangerous Rush to Judgment in Syria
Resource Type: Article 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 Canadas Media Critics
Resource Type: Article 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 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.
- Australian investigative journalist exposes Guardian/New York Times betrayal of Assange
Resource Type: Article 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 Published: 2005 Essays written by media activists examining the efforts of communities and social movements to appropriate media technologies.
- 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 Published: 1990
- Between the Lines
How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life Resource Type: Book 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.
- Big media versus the people
Resource Type: Article 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 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 Published: 1995 The filters that determine what gets into the "news" and what doesn't.
- Business journalists go on the attack; demonize Atlantic seasonal workers
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 National business journalists and columnists have bought into Prime Minister Stephen Harpers demeaning view that folks in the Atlantic region are backward and have a defeatist attitude. Framed in disrespectful language, theyre 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 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 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) Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977
- Cartoon Politics: Rupert Murdoch, The Pro-Israel Lobby And Israels Crimes
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013
- Caught in the act: German state channel accused of faking Russian soldiers in Ukraine
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 A Russian television channel alleges a German state broadcaster hired actors to show Russian involvement in the eastern Ukraine conflict. The scandal centers around a Russian 'volunteer' paid by the German company to say he was fighting in Ukraine.
- 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 Published: 1996 Documenting how the U.S. mass media does a shabby job, deliberately or negligently withholding information of vital importance.
- Censored! The news that didn't make the news-and why (book review)
Resource Type: Article Published: 1993
- The Censorious Vortex of the "Flash News" Barons
Resource Type: Article 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 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 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 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 Gazas occupation while reporting on Israels current assault.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- Chronicles of Dissent
Noam Chomsky Interviewed by David Barsamian Resource Type: Book Published: 1993
- The Comic Book Simplicity Of Propaganda
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Concocting a Crime-Ageddon to Promote Police Power
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Manhattan is overrun with criminals and nobody is safe! -- or thats what certain tabloids and newspapers would have you believe. Through the use of misleading statistics and extraordinary exceptions, the Mayor of New York has been successfully depicted as 'soft-on-crime' even though the city's crime rate is at an all-time low.
- Confessions of a Media Critic
Resource Type: Article 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) Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1983
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1984
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1984
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1988
- Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
Resource Type: Article 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) Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1992
- Constructing Consensus - The 'Victims-And-Aggressor Meme'
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012
- Conundrum - Syriza, Democracy And The Death Of A Saudi Tyrant
Resource Type: Article 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 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.
- Death of a Hero
The General, The Media Adulation And The Forgotten Victims Resource Type: Article 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 Published: 2014 According to a recent Gallup survey, only 40 percent of Americans believe what they read in newspapers. After scanning todays tabloids, one only wonders why the percentage is that high.
- Democracy's Oxygen
How Corporations Control the News Resource Type: Book 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 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 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 Published: 1991
- Diemer, Ulli
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
- 'Disgustingly Biased' - The Corporate Media On The Gaza Massacre
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The bias in failing to report the brutalisation of a trapped, impoverished people under occupation is staggering.
- Down the Memory Hole: NYT Erases CIA's Efforts to Overthrow Syria's Government
Resource Type: Article 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 Published: 1999 From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
- Eight reasons why the latest Syria chemical weapons attack allegations are almost certainly complete nonsense
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 A discussion on the chemical attack in Douma, Syria, and why the allegations are likely false.
- The Empire's Shill
The Real Mission of the New York Times Resource Type: Article Published: 2013
- The Encyclopedia of Censorship
Resource Type: Book 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.
- "Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009
Resource Type: Article 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 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"
Introduction to the December 20, 2016 issue of Other Voices Resource Type: Article 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 commentaries about obscure websites which are supposedly poisoning public opinion and undermining democracy by spreading "fake news."
- Fake News About 'Fake News' - The Media Performance Pyramid
Resource Type: Article 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.
- 'Fake news' & 'post-truth' politics? What about those Iraqi WMDs?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 The people and the outlets warning of the dangers of 'fake news' and 'post-truth politics' have been the biggest peddlers of 'fake news' and 'post-truth politics' out there. It's like receiving lectures on the immorality of bootlegging from Al Capone.
- Frame of Reference and Journalistic Integrity
Resource Type: Article 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 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 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 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 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.
- Gaza headline absurdly inaccurate
Re: Palestinians flee Gaza as ceasefire pleas fail Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Targeting civilians is always wrong. We speak out against Hamas when it does so, but our Canadian government applauds the Israeli government when it does so on a much greater scale. As human beings, as Canadians, as a Palestinian and Jew, we condemn this horrific collective punishment.
- Guardian sinks into gutter on Corbyn - again
Resource Type: Article 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 Guide to the Photographic Identification of Individual Whales Based on Natural & Acquired Markings
Resource Type: Book Published: 1990
- 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 Published: 1997 A book discussing the ever-worsening threat of global climate change.
- Hidden Agendas
Resource Type: Book 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.
- Hidden Agendas: How Journalists Influence the News
Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 A right-wing critique of the theory that media owners determine the nature of news coverage. Instead, the authors contend that journalists have the most influence over news coverage, and that journalists tend to be on the left.
- Hidden Agendas: How journalists influence the news (book review)
Resource Type: Article Published: 2004
- The hidden history of Bob Rae's government in Ontario
Resource Type: Article Published: 2010
- How Canada's corporate media framed the Occupy movement
Resource Type: Article 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 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 Much Less Newsworthy Are Civilians in Other Conflicts?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2022 As US news media covered the first shocking weeks of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, some media observers -- like FAIR founder Jeff Cohen -- have noted their impressions of how coverage differed from wars past.
- How the Guardian became the West's Pravda
Resource Type: Article 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 Published: 2016 Though it might not always seem like it, the news media is composed of human beings. Humans aren't, cant 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 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 Truth Slips Down The Memory Hole
Resource Type: Article 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 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 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 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 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 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 weve learned since the fraudulent Iraq War of 2003. Well, it appears weve learned nothing.
- The Illusion of Democracy
Liberal Journalism, Wikileaks And Climate Deceptions Resource Type: Article 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?
- I'm not sure I trust my 'rational' view of the trucker protest anymore
Resource Type: Article Published: 2022 Our reaction to the protest was narrative construction in real-time
- The Imaginary Cuban Troops in Syria
Resource Type: Article 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-Assads 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 Published: 2012 The summer will determine if the I Am 132 moment becomes a movement and thats why Mexican Spring is a poor choice of words for it.
- In The News
The Practice of Media Relations in Canada Resource Type: Book Published: 2002 Carney gives everyone, from student to seasoned practitioner, a thorough understanding of who the media are, how they work and how to approach them with stories.
- In the News
The Practice of Media Relations in Canada - 2nd Edition Resource Type: Book Published: 2008 An introduction of media relations in Canada, from both a practical and philosophical approach.
- Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 The media response to Assanges 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 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.
- 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 Published: 1993 Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
- Iranians Are Much Talked About on Sunday Morning TV, But Never Heard From
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Over the last couple months, the Sunday morning TV shows -- NBC's Meet the Press, CBS's Face The Nation, ABC's This Week, Fox's News Sunday, and CNN's State of the Union -- have focused on a deal with Iran as one of their principal topics. In doing so, they have repeatedly given a platform to fanatical anti-Iran voices.
- Is Assad to blame for the chemical weapons attack in Syria?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 What possible motives that could link the Assad regime to a chemical attack in Northern Syria?
- Islamic Peril
Media And Global Violence Resource Type: Book Published: 2000
- Israel/Palestine Lexicon For Mainstream Media
Resource Type: Article 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 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.
- It Ain't Necessarily So
How the Media Remake Our Picture of Reality Resource Type: Book Published: 2002 Looks at the confusion and inaccuracies surrounding media reporting of scientific studies, surveys and statistics.
- John Pilger: The dirty war on WikiLeaks
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Journalism and 'the words of power'
Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 More and more today, we journalists have become prisoners of the language of power.
- Journalism: Truth or Dare?
Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 Ian Hargreaves discusses the history, development, future and ethics of journalism and describes journalists' relationship with the public. He focuses on the increase in journalism's influence and the criticism thrown at journalism today by all sectors of society.
- JournalismSources.com
Resource Type: Website 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 Published: 1994 Interviews with Noam Chomsky covering issues such as free trade, health care, global warming, the nature of corporations, human rights, and democracy.
- Killing Corbyn
Resource Type: Article 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 Published: 1995 In Kyrgyzstan, everyone is better off - except for the vast majority of the population.
- Lapdog media learns nothing, beats war drums again
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Have we forgotten Judith Miller already? Or Colin Powell at the U.N.? Before attacking Syria, let's know the truth.
- A Letter to CBC: Your Biased Coverage of the Land Day Massacre
The following letter was sent yesterday to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation regarding their biased coverage of the Land Day massacre Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 Chairperson of the Canada Palestine Association, Hanna Kawas, presents a letter to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, alleging editorial interference by pro-Israel lobbying group 'Honest Reporting Canada' in their coverage of the land day killings of unarmed civilians by Israeli government forces.
- Letter to Metro Morning
Resource Type: Article Published: 2005 Metro Morning, which is so welcoming and inclusive towards all manner of cultures and creative endeavours, is known for not giving coverage to events or groups which bring Palestinians and Jews together in dialogue and in working for peace.
- Letters from Lexington
Reflections on Propaganda Resource Type: Book Published: 1993
- The "Liberal" Medias Propaganda War on Bernie Sanders
Resource Type: Article Published: 2020
- Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right Resource Type: Book Published: 2003
- Little regard for poor countries
Re: Factory fires fill 314 in Pakistan Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 The lack of regard for the poorer countries in our world and their citizens, including workers, continues.
- 'A Load Of Tosh' The BBC, 'Showbiz News' And State Propaganda
Resource Type: Article 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Paranoid State
Das Bild to FoxNews Resource Type: Article 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.
- The Media and the Politics of Peace (book review)
Resource Type: Article Published: 1991
- Media Are Blamed as US Bombing of Afghan Hospital Is Covered Up
Resource Type: Article 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 Awareness Network
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Media Bias on Palestine
Resource Type: Film/Video
- Media Control
The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda Resource Type: Book 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 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 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 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 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.
- Millions in poverty get less coverage than 482 billionaires
New FAIR study documents TV news' lack of interest in poor Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 FAIR uses data from CBS, ABC, and NBC to conduct a study on how much the media reports on poverty, concluding that there is not very much coverage of people in poverty.
- Misrepresented? Hugo Chavez and the Western Media
Resource Type: Article 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 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?
- More than one way to cover an election
Resource Type: Article Published: 1976 Campaign managers for the election campaign of Alderman John Sewell and Alderman Janet Howard arent sure whether to laugh or to cry at the City Dwellers own unique way of covering the election.
- The Most Enduring Media Cover Up
Resource Type: Article 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 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 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 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 Published: 1991 Review of News and Dissent: The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada, by Robert Hackett.
- News and the Culture of Lying
Resource Type: Book Published: 1997 The news media lie, says Weaver, not by slipshod reporting or unethical practices, but in the very "plot structure" of the news, in the masks of impersonality assumed by reporters and editors, and in catering to advertising interests and the appetite for excitement.
- News Media Stifle Ideas and Debate
Review of Democracy's Oxygen: How Corporations Control the News Resource Type: Article 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.
- News media stifle ideas and debate (review)
Resource Type: Article Published: 1997
- Noam Chomsky and Over 100 Intellectuals Denounce 'Savage' Media Treatment of Britain's Jeremy Corbyn
Resource Type: Article 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 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 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 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) 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) 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 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) 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) 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) 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) 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 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.
- Painting a false picture
Resource Type: Article 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 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 Published: 1996
- Pro-Israel stance reeks of double standards and historical amnesia
Resource Type: Article 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 Published: 1999 Chomsky confronts neoliberalsim: the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide.
- Project Censored Canada established as America's Censored Newsletter dies
Resource Type: Article Published: 1993
- Propaganda Blitz: How the Corporate Media Distort Reality
Resource Type: Book 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 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.
- Putin on the Ritz
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Forgive the word-play; colossal demonization notwithstanding, Ill 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.
- Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Website Published: 2017 Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radical left-libertarian Marxist perspective.
- Radical Digressions 2
Resource Type: Website Published: 2000
- Radical Digressions 3
Resource Type: Website Published: 2006
- Radical Digressions 4
Resource Type: Website Published: 2008
- Radical Digressions 5
Resource Type: Website Published: 2008
- The Real Terror Network
Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda Resource Type: Book 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.
- Response to Toronto Sun article
Resource Type: Article Published: 2001 Sun reporter's ill-informed and poor-quality reporting reflects her hostility to organizatons providing services for immigrant women.
- Review of the Press - November 21, 1975
Resource Type: Article Published: 1975 It's probably no surprise to most people that Toronto's three dailies are all anti-union and anti-working-class. But it takes a big strike, like the postal strike or the school strike, to bring out the lengths to which they are willing to go in smearing strikers and in insulting our intelligence.
- Review of the Press: Portugal 1974
Resource Type: Article 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 Published: 2012 When is an act of terrorism not terrorism? When the victims are officially sanctioned state enemies.
- RSF reiterates call for EU sanctions against CCTV and Xinhua
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for European Union sanctions against state-owned China Central Television (CCTV) and the official news agency Xinhua for broadcasting and publishing what are presumably forced "confessions."
- Selective Outrage - Iran And Libya
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012
- Shadows of Liberty
Resource Type: Film Published: 2012 Examines the new media monopoly by corporations in America and the public battle for truth and democracy.
- Six Media Companies Control 90% of What We Read, Watch and Listen to
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012
- Six Ways the Media Has Misreported Syria
How One-Sided Reporting is Facilitating Escalation Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 The Western mainstream medias coverage of the Syrian conflict has been mostly simplistic and black & white with a Hollywoodian good (opposition) and evil (Syrian government) story.
- Smoke seen coming out of chimney!!
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 The suspicious activities of those Russians never cease, and neither does the vigilance of the mainstream media in exposing them.
- Some Deaths Really Matter
The Disproportionate Coverage of Israeli And Palestinian Killings Resource Type: Article 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 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 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 Published: 2009 Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
- Spinwars
Politics and New Media Resource Type: Book Published: 1999 An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
- The Star's biased reporting
Resource Type: Article Published: 1997 The Star's Orwellian journalism.
- Taking the Risk Out of Democracy
Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty Resource Type: Book 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 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.
- 10 Best Censored Stories of 1988
Resource Type: Article Published: 1989
- Thinking The Right Thoughts
Resource Type: Article 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 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.
- Toronto Star Supports the Perpetrators of War Crimes in Ukraine
Crazed Warmongers Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Toronto Star has distinguished itself for supporting the fundraising projects of Ukraine's extreme-right parties and militias.
- Towers of Deception
The Media Cover-Up of 9/11 Resource Type: Book Published: 2006
- Tracking the News that Wasn't
Resource Type: Article Published: 1996 A review of two books about media bias and censorship.
- Tracking the News that Wasn't (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article Published: 1996
- Truth About Global Warming
Resource Type: Article 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 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 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.
- UN 'Travesty': Resolutions Of Mass Destruction - Part 1
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Far from bringing an end to the violence, UN Resolution 1973 unleashed overwhelming Western force in pursuit of regime change, in a war that was fought to the bitter end. To ensure the right outcome, Western and other powers supplied special forces and weapons, simply ignoring the resolution's call for 'strict implementation of the arms embargo' and 'excluding a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory'. In short, the resolution resulted in a massive escalation in violence.
- Uncovering Canadian Media's Devastating Pro-Israel Bias
Resource Type: Article 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 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 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.
- The unrecognised truth behind that 'spontaneous' Belfast riot
Violence was planned by manipulative, self-interested individuals Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 An analysis of sectarian violence in Belfast between the loyalists and republicans and the international media coverage of this violence, which often frames it as political.
- Unreliable Sources
A Guide to Detecting Bias in the New Media Resource Type: Book 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 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 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 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 werent so serious, the effort itself might be laughable.
- Venezuela Blitz - Part 2: Press Freedom, Sanctions And Oil
Resource Type: Article 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 'Democracy' Really Means in U.S. and New York Times Jargon: Latin America Edition
Resource Type: Article 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 countrys democratically elected (and very popular) president, Hugo Chávez.
- What is Objective Journalism?
Resource Type: Article 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 Uncle Sam Really Wants
Resource Type: Book 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 Published: 2012 In Al Jazeeras 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, Dont Answer..
Resource Type: Article 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, dont 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 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 Published: 2012 George Galloways stunning victory in last weeks 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 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 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 Speaks for the Climate?
Making Sense of Media Reporting on Climate Change Resource Type: Book 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 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 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 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 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 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 Published: 2014 Nafeez Ahmeds 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 Washington Post Killed the Story of Murdochs Bid to Buy the US Presidency
Carl Bernstein Caught in the Matrix Resource Type: Article Published: 2012
- Why Won't American Media Tell the Truth About What's Happening in Venezuela?
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Won't Get Fooled Again? Hyping Syria's WMD 'Threat'
Resource Type: Article 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 Published: 2015 The most dangerous violation of journalistic principles has occurred in the Ukraine crisis, which has the potential of a nuclear war.
- 'Wrong as Often as Right' Is Good Enough When Reporting on an Official Enemy
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 When reporting on enemy states, Washington Post would rather use misleading and flashy headline. A North Korean general has supposedly been executed by anti-aircraft weapons but he could just as well be safe and sound.
- The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel and the Media
Resource Type: Book Published: 2018 The Wrong Story lays bare the flaws in the way large media organizations present the PalestineIsrael 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 Israels 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.
- Barrie Zwicker
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
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