STEVE JOHNSON relishes a celebration of the commonality of folk music and its links with the struggles of working people the world over
Lies, damn lies and propaganda
IAN SINCLAIR recommends an expose of how the corporate media seek to influence political discourse
Corporate attack dog: The BBC’s political editor Laura Kuenssberg
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This thriller is a politically charged and morally complex dive into climate activism and police repression, judges JENNY FARRELL
Cat show killer, avenging the pawns, women hunt the Ripper, and running dry in the outback
The Bard reflects on sharing a bed, and why he wont go to Chelsea
MARY CONWAY applauds a new play that foresees the unscrupulous tactics of a future far-right minority government
RON JACOBS is moved to tears by an eloquent journal of heartfelt intensity and human portraiture
ROBERT OVETZ recommends a case study, from the University of Leicester, in their struggle against precarization, AI, privatisation, outsourcing, and work intensification in higher education
Propaganda Blitz: How the Corporate Media Distort Reality
by David Edwards and David Cromwell
(Pluto Press, £14.99)
NAMED Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year in 2017, “fake news,” along with Russian interference in Western political systems, has become an obsession for the British and US media and political classes.
David Edwards and David Cromwell — co-editors of media analysis website Media Lens — don’t buy into this convenient, self-serving framing. “That fake news is a systematic feature of BBC coverage and the rest of Western mainstream media, is virtually an unthinkable thought for corporate journalists,” they noted recently.
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