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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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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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