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| The majority of the western mainstream media is owned and controlled by a handful of very rich individuals, and this is how our media has been used to massage the kind of news we receive, and the level of coverage which particular news stories will get. Rather than being a people-centred institution, nowadays the media tends to be something which is used to build up the public's perception of major incidents, or to re-focus people's attention away from important issues, and it appears to be getting more biased over the years. Something must be done to get honesty back into the news which we are fed. |
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| In the recent past, the issue of a lack of press freedom was considered to be a problem only within developing nations, which were often run by dictatorships, or unfair political systems, but nowadays press freedom is an issue for us all. The freedom of the internet has educated us to the fact that many of those dictatorships were actually set up, and managed, by our own western governments, and now they have turned their attention to their own people. Our governments are attempting to clamp down on the very freedom, and lack of censorship, which the internet has awarded to us, with the United States leading this charge to curtail our freedom of expression, and to cut off our widespread access to knowledge. |
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| Wikileaks is becoming one of the big global issues of our time. The United States government is doing everything it can to put an end to this global group of activists, including attacking them with propaganda, and with technology through hacking attacks, plus threatening businesses and others who have relationships with them. Is this a form of terrorism, when all Wikileaks are doing is releasing the people's information, back to the people? National security is often cited as a reason for not being forthright with the public, by all governments, but if they were doing good things, would there really be any reason to hide their secret dealings? |
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| Browse 200 news sources from around the globe, sorted by type of news source, and by country. Plus search 200 English-speaking news sources at once with our BIG NEWS SEARCH. |
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| 2004 documentary film that criticises the Fox News Channel, and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, claiming that the channel is used to promote and advocate right-wing views. The film says this pervasive bias contradicts the channel's claim of being 'Fair and Balanced', and argues that Fox News has been engaging in what amounts to consumer fraud. |
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| Explosive documentary that details the differences between how the US media report on the Middle East, and how the rest of the world reports from the region. They hone in on the notion that the US media is being played by some very influential powers. But why do they do it? |
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| Whatever happened on the MV Mavi Marmara on the morning of May 31st, 2010, the BBC's Panorama team failed to give a balanced view of it in its so-called documentary, Death in the Med. Panorama's biased and often untruthful Treatment of Israel's worst atrocity since Operation Cast Lead should trigger a public enquiry about who is really in charge of one of the most influential broadcasters on the planet. |
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| An insight into how the US military handled the media during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. This film manages to capture a slice of what goes on behind the scenes at the CENTCOM media centre, while giving us a glimpse into Al-Jazeera's coverage of the war too. The story of how the US bombed Al-Jazeera's Baghdad offices, resulting in the death of reporter, Tareq Ayyoub, is also covered. |
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| Amazing close-up footage of the 2-3 day Venezuelan coup in April of 2002 by a team of Irish reporters, who so happened to be with President Chávez at that particular moment, and caught the whole story on tape as it unfolded. This film also includes the incredible moment where the coup's leaders let it slip, to the entire nation, on live tv, details of how the coup was planned. The media was the most important tool used throughout this coup. |
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| This documentary explores how the same stories have been fed to the American public, to garner patriotic support for the many wars it has entered over the past 50 years. Narrator Sean Penn guides us through the general methodology which the US government and media have used to get the ball rolling in Vietnam, Kuwait, Korea, Iraq, Panama and Afghanistan, to name just a few. |
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| How does a government lead its people to war? How does it communicate to its citizens - and to the wider world - the reasons and rationale for initiating military conflict? What rhetorical devices and techniques are employed? And how is a nation brought to support the profound decision to wage war against another nation? The Build-up to the Iraq war is investigated, entirely through news archives, in this excellent presentation. |
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| The official story of that day was told on live TV by reporters, policemen, firefighters, and other on-the-scene eyewitnesses, however, that footage was shown only once on live television broadcasts in the first hours of the attacks and then… it was never repeated. The stories changed, information was enigmatically omitted, and what can only be described as officially prescribed propaganda took the place of indisputable reality. |
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| Interview - Part of this interview is used within the latest film by acclaimed investigative journalist and human rights activist, John Pilger. 'The War You Don't See'. The interview mainly deals with the manipulation, which is done through the media, by western governments, to cover up the true consequences of modern-day war. |
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| Interview - On his first appearance on CNN, since they attempted to debunk his Fahrenheit 911 film three years previously, Michael Moore challenges Wolf Blitzer to apologise for not doing his bit to bring the truth, about the Iraq War, to the US public. Blitzer avoids answering the point directly - that he and all of the other US mainstream media correspondents did not press the Bush administration about the WMD's issue - and Mike points out that they had a duty to the American public to do so. This interview also included an attack piece on the film SiCKO, in which CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta spreads the usual propaganda relating to universal healthcare to CNN viewers. |
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| VJmovement - Focussing on how the Israeli military used online tools to deliver its narrative of the 2010 Gaza Flotilla Attack & Massacre, to the global audience. This report offers a rare peek into the IDF Spokesperson Unit, which is a key source of information in the Middle East, for journalists and news consumers, but most particularly, we get to see a unit called the 'New Media' unit, which was set up in 2009 to spread pro-Israeli propaganda through social media. |
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| The extraordinary story of the suppression, by Fox News executives, of a 1997 investigative news report on a genetically engineered hormone, Bovine Growth Hormone. The story was killed after pressure from the corporation that developed it - Monsanto - which is affiliated with top Fox advertisers. The station first asked the journalists to change the story and when they refused, Fox then offered to pay the reporters to keep quiet, before finally firing them and refusing to air their report. |
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