A new article by the chair of the Media Reform Coalition, Professor Natalie Fenton, for the Culture Matters blog, argues that coronavirus has exposed the need for a radically different structural orientation in our media. Coverage of the pandemic has revealed mainstream media to be an explicit channel for government PR spin, further propelling the revolving door between … [Read more...]
John Pilger: ‘Is the media now just another word for control?’
Transcript of John Pilger's statement, Today programme, BBC Radio 4, 2 January 2014. A recent poll asked people in Britain how many Iraqis had been killed as a result of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The answers they gave were shocking. A majority said that fewer than 10,000 had been killed. Scientific studies report that up to a million Iraqi men, women and children died in … [Read more...]
Turkey and the truth about media ownership concentration
Murat Akser, Chair of the New Media Department at Istanbul's Kadir Has University, talks about media ownership concentration in Turkey and the Taksim Square protests. Footage and editing by documentary film maker Lee Salter. … [Read more...]