The atrocities in Iraq surprise us only because we ignore colonial history.
Category: media
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
The Bones of the Saint
Remarks at the launch of Scott Lucas’s book The Betrayal of Dissent
Invasion of the Entryists
Diary
On becoming a bilious old git.
Planet of the Fakes
Wildlife programmes on television, David Attenborough’s among them, perpetuate the dangerous myth of wilderness.
Unreality TV
Television coverage of the poor world has all but disappeared, with disastrous consequences for everyone.
The Business of Power
Why does the British government remain wedded to the corporations?
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