- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Pluto Press (20 Aug 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0745328946
- ISBN-13: 978-0745328942
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,545,036 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Not since Orwell and Chomsky has perceived reality been so skilfully revealed in the cause of truth. (John Pilger )
Regular critical analysis of the media, filling crucial gaps and correcting the distortions of ideological prisms, has never been more important. Media Lens has performed a major public service by carrying out this task with energy, insight, and care. (Noam Chomsky )
Media Lens is doing an outstanding job of pressing the mainstream media ... It is fun as well as enlightening to watch their representatives ... often getting flustered, angry, evasive, and sometimes mistating the facts. This won't change the media very much, but it will make them a bit more careful and honest, and it will help educate the public, which will have its own useful spinoff. (Edward S. Herman )
In telling us the unvarnished truth, Media Lens is the best thing to happen to the British media for as long as I can remember. (John Pilger )
Regular critical analysis of the media, filling crucial gaps and correcting the distortions of ideological prisms, has never been more important. Media Lens has performed a major public service by carrying out this task with energy, insight, and care. (Noam Chomsky )
Media Lens is doing an outstanding job of pressing the mainstream media ... It is fun as well as enlightening to watch their representatives ... often getting flustered, angry, evasive, and sometimes mistating the facts. This won't change the media very much, but it will make them a bit more careful and honest, and it will help educate the public, which will have its own useful spinoff. (Edward S. Herman )
In telling us the unvarnished truth, Media Lens is the best thing to happen to the British media for as long as I can remember. (John Pilger )
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Since 2001, Media Lens has encouraged thousands of readers to challenge the filtered and distorted version of the world provided by major newspapers and broadcasters. The media responses, collected in Newspeak, are an exposé of the arrogance and servility to power of our leading journalists and editors, starring Andrew Marr, Alan Rusbridger, Roger Alton, Jon Snow, Jeremy Bowen and even George Monbiot.
Picking up where the highly acclaimed and successful Guardians of Power (2006) left off, Newspeak is packed with forensic media analysis, revealing the lethal bias in "balanced" reporting. Even the "best" UK media -- the Guardian, the Independent, Channel 4 News and the BBC -- turn out to be cheerleaders for government, business and war.
Alongside an A-Z of BBC propaganda and chapters on Iraq and climate change, Newspeak focuses on the demonisation of Iran and Venezuela, the Israel-Palestine conflict, the myth of impartial reporting and the dark art of smearing dissidents.
Picking up where the highly acclaimed and successful Guardians of Power (2006) left off, Newspeak is packed with forensic media analysis, revealing the lethal bias in "balanced" reporting. Even the "best" UK media -- the Guardian, the Independent, Channel 4 News and the BBC -- turn out to be cheerleaders for government, business and war.
Alongside an A-Z of BBC propaganda and chapters on Iraq and climate change, Newspeak focuses on the demonisation of Iran and Venezuela, the Israel-Palestine conflict, the myth of impartial reporting and the dark art of smearing dissidents.
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36 of 37 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a vital and exceptionally good book, both well researched and backed up with correspondence between Media Lens and key figures in the UK's 'liberal' media. So in the end you are free to make your own mind up.
It highlights the contradictions, filters and pressures at the heart of our media and enables the thinking person to further analyse the polluted media culture we live in and make more sense of it.
Ultimately its a inspiring read that offers us hope for correcting grave and gaping common distortions and gives us hope for constructing more reliable news analysis in the future through non corporate, non profit Internet based services such as Media Lens and Znet.
One hopes that the BBC, Guardian, Observer and Channel 4 are able to lift themselves out of the pit of the corporate government mindset and truly invite intellectual reason and free thought.
It highlights the contradictions, filters and pressures at the heart of our media and enables the thinking person to further analyse the polluted media culture we live in and make more sense of it.
Ultimately its a inspiring read that offers us hope for correcting grave and gaping common distortions and gives us hope for constructing more reliable news analysis in the future through non corporate, non profit Internet based services such as Media Lens and Znet.
One hopes that the BBC, Guardian, Observer and Channel 4 are able to lift themselves out of the pit of the corporate government mindset and truly invite intellectual reason and free thought.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is a must read for those who feel
the media agenda stifles public opinion.
A great analyses of the so called liberal media
and how this is a myth. Everyone should read this book
the media agenda stifles public opinion.
A great analyses of the so called liberal media
and how this is a myth. Everyone should read this book
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a devastating expose of how our mainstream media operates in a corporate world. This book explains how consensus reality is so wildly at odds with the actuality in front of our eyes. Outstanding. This should be required reading for trainee journalists, media students and political scientists. A tour de force.
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Antagonists? Sure. But do they have any choice?
If there is a problem with this book is that it is too short. It has a long way to go before it can fully describe the reach and scope of the pro-corporate attitudes which govern... Read more
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Know your enemy: see through news manipulation, on screen and in newspapers.
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Required reading for anyone who follows the news
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Splendid and very detailed analysis of news bias/filtering
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Published on 11 April 2010 by T. D. Welsh
essential first reading for MEDIA students!
...and check out their great website too, a must read to understand why British society is the way it is
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Good Book full of Righteous Indignation!
For the most part this book is a catalogue of what the authors identify as biased reporting. They set their sights on numerous familiar names like Andrew Marr, Gavin Esler and... Read more
Published on 18 Feb 2010 by Mr. N. T. Baxter
"The truth will set you free"
I learned of this book from a very favourable review in the Morning Star newspaper, and obtained a copy through my local library. Read more
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A glimmer of light in the corporate fog
These exceptionally dedicated and talented journalists are a credit to their profession. Their book gives a glimpse into what life could be like if people had access to what is... Read more
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