December 4, 2008

MEDIA ALERT: CAN THIS BE TRUE? GEORGE MONBIOT CHALLENGES MEDIA LENS ON HYPOCRISY

The Guardian columnist, George Monbiot, posted the following on our website message board yesterday:

“Can this be true?

http://dissident93.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/medialens-monbiot-wilby-miln...

“If so, I think I have reason to feel aggrieved.”

Blindman's Buff #231
by JOHN ROSS

MEXICO CITY (Dec. 2nd) - The fiery November 4th crash of a private Lear jet here not a mile from Los Pinos, the Mexican White House, that killed President Felipe Calderon's closest collaborator Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mourino was largely buried by the U.S. press, coming as it did on Election Day USA and the subsequent eruption of Obamamania.

December 1st, 2008
by William Blum
www.killinghope.org

Okay, let's get the obvious out of the way. It was historic. I choked up a number of times, tears came to my eyes, even though I didn't vote for him. I voted for Ralph Nader for the fourth time in a row.

MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media

November 26, 2008
PART 2 - IN PRACTICE

The Observer Smears Climate Activism

Despite the fine words of the ’Living Our Values’ audit, the Guardian and the Observer are part of a corporate system that is determined to prevent the public from interfering with the maximisation of profits.

MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media

November 25, 2008
PART 1 - IN THEORY

Hectoring And Censoring - And Climate Catastrophe

by Ramzy Baroud

There are a few buzzwords that every American politician, aiming for high office must utilize, even if disingenuously, to have a reasonable chance at getting elected.

MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media

November 13, 2008

Appearance And Reality In The Relaunch Of Brand America

In 1997, the British media filled with talk of “historic” change. Blair’s victory that year “bursts open the door to a British transformation,” the Independent declared. (Neal Ascherson, ‘Through the door he can begin to create a freer land,’ The Independent, May 4, 1997)

Blindman's Buff #229

by John Ross

MEXICO CITY (Nov. 11th) - Berta Robledo, a nurse at the National Pediatric Hospital here, was hunched over the counter at La Blanca, a popular old quarter restaurant, a magnifying glass in one hand, a dictionary in the other, and a print copy of a petroleum "reform" law pending in the Mexican Congress spread before her on the Formica.

By Ramzy Baroud

The sovereignty of an independent, stable country that has carried out many constructive moves in recent months and weeks, which could have surely contributed to the stabilization of the Middle East, has been violated, its borders breached and its civilians killed.

But when the country targeted is Syria, an Arab country, and the perpetrator is the US military, then, somehow things are not as appalling as they may seem.

By Ramzy Baroud