Category: media

Attack of the Baby Eaters

The press has been publishing a series of crazy scare stories about our intentions at the climate camp

Is it time to consider a ban on the adverts which help to cook the planet?

Green consumerism will not save the biosphere

Head of History, Science and Religion, Channel 4

The atrocities in Iraq surprise us only because we ignore colonial history.

The tobacco industry duped both academic journals and the media.

Why do so few people know about the atrocities of empire?

The press has been minimising the death toll in Iraq

The democratic potential of the new media is being blocked by the companies providing the technology.

The superstores are on the verge of cornering the news market, with disastrous implications for democracy

The US media is creating a world of make believe.

Undercurrents and Schnews are both ten years old, and still blooming.

Transcript of lecture.

The newspapers must also be held to account for the decision to invade Iraq.

Our journalists bear as much responsibility for the misinformation about Iraq as the intelligence agencies.

The dismissal of climate change by journalistic nincompoops is a danger to us all

Remarks at the launch of Scott Lucas’s book The Betrayal of Dissent

How a cruel and bizarre cult colonised the interface between science and the media.

On becoming a bilious old git.

Wildlife programmes on television, David Attenborough’s among them, perpetuate the dangerous myth of wilderness.