FKN NEWZ: ISRAEL ATTACKS IRAN
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New World Next Week
If you really want to know what’s going on in the world, you can’t rely on the mainstream media to tell you. Is the government stripping away your rights and making protesting illegal? Don’t expect Fox News or the BBC to cover this – they’re too busy lying to engender public support for yet another murderous “regime change” to tell their viewers about anything that might actually affect them.
It’s a shame that alternative news media – made by concerned people motivated by compassion and willing to sift through the detritus of “news” and information to seek out a kernel of truth – is difficult to sustain financially, let alone compete with the corporate press in terms of exposure to the wider public. Still, the light at the end of the tunnel is dwindling sales/viewing figures for the mainstream propaganda industry and the inexorable growth of grassroots investigative journalism such as New World Next Week, where events don’t live in a vacuum but are part of a wider picture, the unveiling, rather than the concealing of which is what drives them to speak out.
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MediaLens Exchange With BBC News At Ten Editor
After following MediaLens for some years now one thing that stands out is how infrequently the journalists they challenge bother to respond – for the most part, when they do, it’s characterised by a knee-jerk defensiveness which completely skirts the valid points being raised in favour of predictable expressions of commitment to fairness, often with the insinuation that MediaLens are “paranoid”. Every once in a while, however, a response emerges which reveals something more about journalism beyond its evasive style when challenged …
Read the full report here.
Extract from Iran Next in Line for Intervention?
On February 16, we emailed James Stephenson, editor of BBC News at Ten, to say that the previous night’s item on Iran had breached the news organisation’s obligations on accuracy and impartiality:
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