Media critique

Published on Media Lens, Sept 14, 2022: “The powerful interests that determine Britain’s political and media agenda are not sentimentalists; they do not impose ‘managed democracy’ as a kind [...]

In this piece by Roger Annis, for his blog A Socialist in Canada, he responds to three recent articles by left-wing writers condemning Russia for its political/military intervention in Ukraine. [...]

There is a fundamental difference in perspective between the mainstream media, owned by the great corporations of the North, and the media of the global South, developed by states that are [...]

Following the opposition leader’s failure to secure reelection as National Assembly president this month, Washington and its corporate media stenographers have hysterically decried a “coup” [...]

Media Lens considers why so few journalists are prepared to question the “solid and reliable” Guardian and those that do as invariably “shot down in flames” or alienated. [...]

In Venezuela, the propaganda war intensifies as the West continues to ramp up its drive for regime change. A new book from Alan McLeod pinpoints just how unreliable Western reporting has become [...]

The Canadian press usually retails, without question, anti-Venezuelan propaganda from the US and its own government. Linda McQuaig’s pre-election article from The Star is an exception that [...]

When exiled Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko was reported assassinated in the Ukrainian Kiev, the media duly seized on it as another example of Moscow’s brutal methods of eliminating dissent [...]

Facebook has been quietly deleting entire accounts for at least two years. The reason is not that their news is ‘fake’, but that the US and Israeli governments don’t want [...]

This New Cold War dossier provides background material for readers seeking to understand internet and social media censorship. Each section deals with one aspect and contains links to relevant [...]