The Successful Ego, of course, raises itself above others on its ‘special’ achievements. Football manager, José Mourinho, enraged egos everywhere by saying: ‘Please don’t call me arrogant, but I’m European champion and I think I’m →| Media Lens
One might naively think that a national public-service broadcaster would inform the public about matters of national interest. Surely no reasonable person would deny that the public has a right to know what the government is doing in our name. But, over and above this basic requirement, a responsibl| Media Lens
On 27 June, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz published an article that demolished many of the conceits held by ‘mainstream’ journalists about Israel’s assault on Gaza. The BBC’s response to the report was a breathtakingly clear example of its willingness to suppress publicly available information in or| Media Lens
Introduction – The Machine And The ‘Horse Of The Apocalypse’ Today, Media Lens co-editor David Edwards is publishing his first solo book for 27 years, ‘A Short Book About Ego and the Remedy of Meditation’. →| Media Lens
If there’s one thing the ‘impartial’, ‘independent’ ‘free press’ can’t stand, it’s someone – citizens, journalists, politicians, celebrities, anyone – protesting the West’s wars. The one-size-fits-all smear deployed to define and dismiss the concerns of →| Media Lens
Stanley Betts is a talented, 23-year-old video editor and filmmaker. His video, ‘Why Pascal Was Right - Benefits of Being Alone’, has been viewed 1.3 million times on YouTube. Stan began podcasting with a refreshingly honest interview with his dad, the playwright Torben Betts. The theme of the inter| Media Lens
Noam Chomsky offered a rule of thumb for predicting the ‘mainstream’ response to crimes against humanity: ‘There is a way to calibrate reaction. If it’s a crime of somebody else, particularly an enemy, then we’re →| Media Lens
I don’t doubt that I have lived a privileged and sheltered life, but before Israel’s genocide in Gaza I had never seen a hospital patient on an intravenous drip being burned alive. I didn’t want to see it. Social media is like that - before you realise what you’re seeing, you’ve seen it. And it can’| Media Lens
BBC News regularly proclaims its supposed editorial principles of fearless, independent, impartial, fair and accurate journalism. In a January 2023 speech to the Whitehall & Industry Group in London, then BBC Chairman Richard Sharp boasted that BBC journalism is the ‘global gold standard’ of cre| Media Lens
What, then, is the alternative to resisting ‘Evil’? And what on earth might be our motivation for doing something else? Three modern masters of meditation bowl us the same googly from left field. The Indian mystic Osho said: ‘Someone insults you. You just stand still, remain silent. The mechanis| Media Lens
