JOE GILL speaks to the Palestinian students in Gaza whose testimony is collected in a remarkable anthology
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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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MARY CONWAY delights in a rarely performed comedy that recalls a Britain we remember in our bones
JEAN ROBERTS appreciates the way traditional panto can be remodelled into critique of the academy schools system
MARY CONWAY is riveted by a superbly crafted glimpse into the soul of a cast-off US star
MARIA DUARTE is swept along by the cocky self-belief of a ping-pong hustler in a surprisingly violent drama
STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away
GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
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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