Anticipatory Compliance
Rupert Murdoch doesn’t even have to ask to get what he wants.
Archive for the 'media' Category
A Likely Story
As the evidence accumulates, the Evening Standard’s allegations of terrorist planning have fallen apart.
Attack of the Baby Eaters
The press has been publishing a series of crazy scare stories about our intentions at the climate camp
Selling Ecocide
Is it time to consider a ban on the adverts which help to cook the planet?
Eco-junk
Green consumerism will not save the biosphere
Correspondence with Hamish Mykura
Head of History, Science and Religion, Channel 4 Read more »
Occupations Brutalise
The atrocities in Iraq surprise us only because we ignore colonial history.
Smoke Rings
The tobacco industry duped both academic journals and the media.
How Britain Denies its Holocausts
Why do so few people know about the atrocities of empire?
Bringing Out the Dead
The press has been minimising the death toll in Iraq
The Net Censors
The democratic potential of the new media is being blocked by the companies providing the technology.
Bad News from Tesco
The superstores are on the verge of cornering the news market, with disastrous implications for democracy
Media Fairyland
The US media is creating a world of make believe.
The Alternative Media
Undercurrents and Schnews are both ten years old, and still blooming.
No Longer Obeying Orders
Transcript of lecture.
The Lies of the Press
The newspapers must also be held to account for the decision to invade Iraq.
Greasing Up to Power
Our journalists bear as much responsibility for the misinformation about Iraq as the intelligence agencies.
The Fossil Fools
The dismissal of climate change by journalistic nincompoops is a danger to us all
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The Bones of the Saint
Remarks at the launch of Scott Lucas’s book The Betrayal of Dissent
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Diary
On becoming a bilious old git.
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Planet of the Fakes
Wildlife programmes on television, David Attenborough’s among them, perpetuate the dangerous myth of wilderness.
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Unreality TV
Television coverage of the poor world has all but disappeared, with disastrous consequences for everyone.
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The Business of Power
Why does the British government remain wedded to the corporations?
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Dying of Consumption
The more we spend, the happier we become. Probably.
Big Business, As Seen On TV
The Communications White Paper will help the corporations to stifle dissent
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Modified Truth
Channel 4 has hired a charlatan to make its science programmes
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No Politics Please
How Britain’s advertising rules forbid us to hear the bad news about business
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Publish and Be Damned
Britain’s libel laws allow the rich and powerful to silence the excluded
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Pester Power
Father Christmas has become an enemy of the people, as advertisers exploit parents for all they’re worth
Far Left or Far Right?
Living Marxism’s interesting allegiances
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The Revolution Has Been Televised
Channel 4’s Against Nature series turns out to have been made by an obscure and cranky sect
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Crimes Against Nature
A new Channel 4 series would be laughable, had it not been given three hours of prime time TV.
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