I have long been an active supporter of Medialens ( http://www.medialens.org/ ). Like many others, I have supported them with money, time, tips, and I have been proud to have done so. For they have done very important groundbreaking work over the years challenging the inanities and distortions of the 'mainstream' media. They have for example written important critiques of mainstream media coverage of dangerous climate change, of Iraq Body Count, of the corporate nature of most of our media, and much more besides. They have held the corporate media to account time and again. They ought to be saluted for all of that. It is therefore with a sense of deep regret (as well as of some foreboding) that I have finally to write to address the ways in which, lately, some of the wheels seem to be coming off their wagon. An early warning sign perhaps was their long-running spat with George Monbiot, over the Rwandan genocide and the terrible atr...
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That is actually the best one ever.
The most common comment that I heard was "What the hell was that all about?" Nevertheless, it seemed to work on a subliminal level.
Some people would dispute that it was the best ever. What about our 1989 broadcast made by David Bailey? I'd love to see that again. Anyone know where there is a copy? We would probably be done for child abuse if we broadcasted it nowadays.
I don't think it is on the web anywhere.