Adam Curtis: another manager of perceptions
Adam Curtis’ new, near three-hour documentary HyperNormalisation, showing on BBC iplayer, is being garlanded with predictable praise from liberal commentators. As ever, Curtis joins the dots in...
View ArticleClinton’s defeat and the ‘fake news’ conspiracy
There is an astounding double standard being applied to the US presidential election result. A few weeks ago the corporate media were appalled that Donald Trump demurred on whether he would accept the...
View ArticleIs the CIA editing your newspaper?
Here is a great overview by Ed Jones of why corporate media are the arch-exponents of “fake news”. The media are overwhelming owned and controlled by billionaires and gargantuan corporations, who...
View ArticleIs the BBC still lying over Syria footage?
Robert Stuart, a tenacious blogger, has been picking away at a scab the BBC would rather leave firmly in place. His forensic research concerns an edition of the BBC’s flagship investigative current...
View ArticleA disavowal of Monbiot’s witch-hunt
George Monbiot is off again on one of his intermittent witch-hunts against the left – on this occasion, against anyone questioning whether the Syrian regime was responsible for the chemical weapons...
View ArticleMedia can’t hide that they’re in bed with May
This is the first British general election in decades in which there is anything approaching a real political choice. For that reason, even the most liberal elements within the corporate media are...
View ArticleThe real reason Britons will vote for Scrooge
Trust Jonathan Freedland of the Guardian to ask the most pertinent question of the coming British general election and then fail to offer the one answer staring him in the face. After examining the...
View ArticleGuardian mourns Corbyn’s polling surge
It is quite extraordinary to read today’s coverage in Britain’s supposedly left-liberal newspaper the Guardian. In the “man bites dog” stakes, the day’s biggest story is the astounding turn-around in...
View ArticleMI6, Theresa May and the Manchester attack
You would think that, as the reverberations from last week’s Manchester terror attack continue to be felt, the UK media would be scouring through the literal and figurative rubble trying to find leads....
View ArticleGuardian staff come out of closet for Corbyn
Dear Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, Congratulations on coming out of the Guardian closet and admitting that you have been a secret Jeremy Corbyn admirer all along. Your column, “I used to be a shy Corbynite...
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