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
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
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
The illegal, unprovoked, full-scale US-UK invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003 wrecked the country at the cost of at least one million Iraqi lives. It was waged on the basis of a supposed threat from ‘weapons of mass destruction’ that did not exist. Less well-known is the fact that everyone at th| Media Lens
