The press’s failure to call waterboarding torture impedes honest discussion of the darkest years of the Bush presidency Dan Kennedy guardian.co.uk – 6 July 2010 On 18 September 1945, barely a month after the Japanese surrender had brought second world war to a close, a sickening story appeared on page two of the New York [...]
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Radio used to help Jordanians follow World Cup
by Daoud Kuttab Media Monitors Network – June 30, 2010 Ingenuity and media entrepreneurship, helped out by technological changes, provided a rare opportunity for many Jordanians to follow their favorite teams vying for the World Cup. For the second time in eight years, football fans in Jordan were denied the pleasure of watching the World [...]
Israel-US relations suffering ‘tectonic rift’
Middle East Online - 28 June 2010 Israel’s ambassador to US says Washington-Tel Aviv ties worse than a crisis under Obama. TEL AVIV – Israeli-US relations have undergone a huge shift amounting to what Israel’s ambassador to Washington has termed “a genuine tectonic rift,” media reports said on Sunday. Briefing officials at the foreign ministry last [...]
Yvonne Ridley: US Fear Factory Kills Free Speech
Information Clearing House – June 22, 2010 America is still embarrassed by the infamous McCarthy Hearings which ruined the lives of thousands of innocents during the Fifties. Anyone then, suspected of being linked to communism was arrested, interrogated and either imprisoned or forced to give names of others suspected of communist tendencies. And so the fear [...]
Robert Fisk: Fighting talk: The new propaganda
Journalism has become a linguistic battleground – and when reporters use terms such ‘spike in violence’ or ‘surge’ or ‘settler’, they are playing along with a pernicious game, argues Robert Fisk Independent - 21 June 2010 owing the latest in semantics on the news? Journalism and the Israeli government are in love again. It’s Islamic terror, [...]
You’re talking bollox, Mr Regev
A short primer on Israeli propaganda for media dummies By Stuart Littlewood June 8, 2010 What were Israel’s excuses for hijacking the Free Gaza ships in international waters and imprisoning their passengers after gunning down nine of them and wounding several more? There is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and Israel already allows sufficient humanitarian [...]
Video: Is Israel manipulating media?
From: RTAmerica | June 01, 2010 In many ways, public opinion is shaped by the media, so will the media coverage of the attack affect public opinion of Israel. The mainstream media has been pro Israel in the past but will that change now after the conflict on the Mediterranean? Danny Schechter says that Israel [...]
Terror Double Standard
Hesham A. Hassaballa First published GodFaithPen.com – 14 May 2010 On the evening of May 10, there was a small explosion and fire outside a Jacksonville, FL mosque. According to a fire department investigation and officials of the Islamic Center of Northeast Florida, worshipers heard a loud noise outside the mosque, and there was a small [...]
Robert Fisk: Silenced for speaking the truth about Guantanamo
Independent - 15 May 2010 I began my column last week with the words “We know all about Guantanamo”. I was wrong. Courtesy of the Toronto press – until a few days ago, when half of them were censored out of the drumhead courts martial that pass for “justice” in this execrable place – I have [...]
Were Afghan Children Executed By Us-Led Forces? And Why Aren’t The Media Interested?
By Cromwell, David ZNet - 14 January 2010 Ignoring or downplaying Western crimes is a standard feature of the corporate Western media. On rare occasions when a broadcaster or newspaper breaks ranks and reports ‘our’ crimes honestly, it is instructive to observe the response from the rest of the media. Do they follow suit, perhaps digging deeper [...]
Paid Lying – What Passes For Major Media Journalism
Stephen Lendman Uruknet – 9 November 2009 Today’s major media journalism is biased, irresponsible, sensationalist reporting that distorts, exaggerates or misstates the truth. It’s misinformation or agitprop disinformation masquerading as fact to boost circulation, readership, viewers, or listeners, and on vital issues lie about or suppress uncomfortable truths to provide unqualified support for state and/or [...]
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