DID WESTERN MAINSTREAM MEDIA FOOL YOU? – CHECK NOW
Propaganda, information warfare, and controlled narratives are key tools used by governments and media to manufacture consent and shape public opinion.
THE SECOND CASUALTY OF WAR
According to the International Press Institute (IPI), a total of 100 journalists were killed in 2010. This figure is only marginally lower than the previous year when 110 were slain. The year 2011 figures were much higher and have been soaring ever since with the deadliest zones being Jewish Occupied Palestine, Pakistan, Iraq and Libya.
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THE GUTTER PRESS IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL
Sadly, the clip of a BBC’s main news item that displayed an Indian street celebration as an anti-Gaddafi demo in Tripoli’s main square was par for the course these dark days. One would have thought that modern technology, and the internet, would have ended such knavish behaviour by […]
Tribute to the Supreme Investigative Journalist John Pilger
‘If those who support aggressive war had seen a fraction of what I’ve seen, if they’d watched children fry to death from Napalm and bleed to death from a cluster bomb, they might not utter the claptrap they do’. –John Pilger. 13/11/2005. The renowned documentary maker was one […]
Should mainstream media be made to name their sponsors
MICHAEL WALSH MEDIA EXPERT: ‘Soldiers of Information’ as a description of journalists is an expression coined by a self-effacing international journalist. Whilst journalists themselves, from humble reporters to household name television anchormen admit their bias, viewers, readers and listeners allow themselves to be influenced by what they see, […]
The No-Holds-Barred Battle for hearts and minds Social Media Posters are Winning
MICHAEL WALSH JOURNALISM SINCE 1983: Over hundreds of years the Press, now known as mainstream media, has been labelled The Fourth Estate: i.e., ‘The public press, that had an unofficial but often great influence on public affairs, was called the fourth estate. In the 19th century, the fourth […]
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