The BBC amplifies the voices of billionaires, and shuts down those who challenge them.
Category: media
News is the Propaganda of the Oligarch
We’ve taken drastic action to try to stop the election from being won by outrageous lies.
Owned
As I’ve found to my cost, the billionaire press seeks to kill change before it happens.
Bring On the Clowns
By selecting obnoxious twerps as its contributors, the media is changing the character of the nation
You Want It Darker?
The remarkable story of how the hard-right Koch brothers funded a Trotskyite splinter group.
In a World of Their Own
By downplaying and misrepresenting our environmental crisis, David Attenborough and the BBC have generated complacency, confusion and ignorance.
Personality Cult
The media’s spotlight systematically distorts the way we see the world
Comfort Zone
If you want to see real no-platforming, look at the newspapers
Press Gang
The media was exposed in this election as wildly out of touch with the nation. This is not surprising, as it lives in a hall of mirrors.
Black Hole
The fake grassroots campaign run by grouse shooters is just one instance of the way democracy is being bypassed
The Purse is Mightier Than the Pen
The climate crisis is here, now, but a compromised, corrupted media doesn’t want to know.
Rare Specimen
My interview, in his 90th year, with Sir David Attenborough
Rural Idiocy
The BBC’s coverage of the countryside is a biased, unquestioning, deferential disgrace.
Messenger of the Gods
As an astonishing scandal in Canada shows, journalists who should be challenging power work instead on its behalf.
Remote Control
How the media shafted the people of Scotland.
Purging Dissent
The real enemies of press freedom are in the newsroom.
Smoke-Filled Rooms
How the media gives Big Tobacco everything it wants.
Torpedoed
The results of a crowd-sourcing appeal prove that Discovery Channel engaged in fakery.
Jumping the Shark
Misleading claims by Discovery and other channels help to fuel wildlife massacres.
Puppet Show
Amazingly, the BBC seems happy to be exploited by covert corporate lobbyists.