Book review. The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution by Nils Melzerby Ian SinclairPeace NewsAugust-September 2022 Opening with a quote from Otto Gritschneder – ‘Those who sleep in a democracy will wake up in a dictatorship’ – Nils Melzer notes his newis intended as ‘an urgent appeal… a wake up call to the […]
As promised, today James does a question and answer with some students of his Mass Media: A History online course. From the history of media to our relationship with to an intriguing question about Gulf War embedded reporting that goes in a very unexpected direction, you won't want to miss this info-packed Q&A.
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Gone are the days when the CIA secretly infiltrated American newsrooms, craftily tricking people into believing U.S. government propaganda was the real news. Nowadays, they never keep it a secret that they run the media.
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Magnus gubernator et scisso navigat vello. A great helmsman can navigate even when his sail is torn. — Seneca, Moral Letters, 30. 3. This is as true today as it was in antiquity. A president who steers the Ship of State knows that human nature is weak and that government officials are sometimes tempted to […]
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Even the Big Techers admit it: social media is ripping apart the fabric of our society. So the solution is simple, right? Delete your social media! Or is it not that simple? Join James on today's edition of #SolutionsWatch as he explores the solutions to the Media Matrix problem.
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In 1980 we produced a report titled How to Appraise and Improve Your Daily Newspaper: A Manual for Readers, authored by David Bollier, one of our precocious interns, who had just graduated from Amherst and went on to become an expert on the Commons (See, bollier.org). I thought about this past initiative to empower readers/consumers while contemplating […]
I speculated in a previous article that the BBC would attempt to establish a narrative that would promote and support the UK government's proposed Online Safety Act. And that is precisely what it did in its would-be documentary, "Unvaccinated with Hannah Fry."
The overthrow of Yanukovych in Ukraine in February 2014 was a U.S. coup, and definitely not a democratic revolution there. The U.S. Government and its ‘news’-media lied — didn’t merely “err” — to deceive the U.S. public to believe the “Saddam’s WMD” falsehoods that were used to ‘justify’ criminally invading Iraq on 20 March 2003. The U.S. Government[Read More...]
James talks to Alison Morrow about his new documentary series, The Media Matrix. They discuss the history of the mass media, its effects on the population, how media power translates to political power, the printing press' role in the creation of the nation-state and the electronic media's role in the creation of globalization, where media technology is heading and how people can defend themselves against the dehumanization influence of electronic media.
