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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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The Bard stands with the Reformers of Peterloo, and their shared genius in teaching history with music and song
SUE TURNER is fascinated by a book that researches who the largely immigrant workforce were that built the Empire State
MARIA DUARTE and MALC McGOOKIN review Sirat, The Testament of Ann Lee, EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, and All You Need Is Kill
STEVE ANDREW recommends a Marxist analysis of the long chains of production that global corporations exploit
MARY CONWAY relishes the period detail but misses the drama in this unsatisfactory dramatisation of the subjugated life of George Eliot
IAN SINCLAIR welcomes a mainstream scholar to the ranks of left-wing critique of US foreign policy
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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