Late last Sunday, a targeted Israeli attack killed prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif alongside several colleagues. They were in a tent outside the main gate of Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospital. Also killed were Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher an| Media Lens
How Bush And Blair Chose War And Then Chose The Justification Introduction Sometimes it really is possible to fail to see the wood for the trees. We need to be clear that Tony Blair is claiming that the threat of Iraqi WMD justified a massive war against Iraq. We are to believe that after a major co| Media Lens
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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
A Short Book About Ego... and the Remedy of Meditation By David Edwards Mantra Books Publication date: 24 June 2025 Available from: Hive Bookshop.org Amazon (UK) / Amazon (US) Barnes & Noble Collective Ink Price: £10.99 / US$16.95 ISBN: 1803418168ISBN-13: 97| Media Lens
‘I have tried trade, but I found that it would take ten years to get under way in that, and that then I should probably be on my way to the devil.’ (Thoreau, ‘Walden’) Noam Chomsky once emailed us: ‘Am really impressed with what you are doing, though it’s like trying to move a ten-ton truck wit| 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
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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
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
The BBC’s withdrawal of the powerful documentary, ‘Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone’, epitomises how much the UK’s national broadcaster is beholden to the Israel lobby. The corporation’s longstanding systematic protection of Israel, considered an ‘apartheid regime’ by major human rights organisatio| Media Lens
In an interview with Israeli television last Thursday, Yoav Gallant, the former Israeli defence minister, confirmed that the so-called ‘Hannibal Directive’ was implemented by Israeli military forces on 7 October 2023, the day of attacks by Hamas and other Palestinian fighters. There had already b| Media Lens
Monitoring corporate media performance for 25 years - week after week, war after war – has done little to diminish our dismay at the robotic automaticity of ‘mainstream’ enthusiasm for US-authored regime change. Each time, without fail, thousands of media commentators function, not as critical-th| Media Lens
Imagine that the world’s largest and most respected human rights group issued a report detailing Russian war crimes in Ukraine and concluding that Russia was committing genocide. Western news media would devote massive coverage to the report. Newspaper and website headlines, together with television| Media Lens
Left-progressives writhe in agony when the usual suspects to the right of the ‘mainstream’ media 'spectrum' continue to pour bile and abuse on the likes of Howard Zinn, Edward Herman, Harold Pinter, Robert Fisk and John Pilger in the immediate aftermath of their deaths. Where is the humanity, dec| Media Lens
Andrew Marr must have seemed the natural choice to BBC executives looking for an interviewer to grill Tony Blair on his new autobiography, A Journey (The Andrew Marr Show, BBC 1, September 1, 2010. See here for a rough transcript. After all, Blair has become the most reviled British politician of mo| Media Lens
