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Corbyn's Millions - Blair's Millions
20 April 2016

Corbyn's Millions - Blair's Millions

While 'social media' like Facebook and Twitter are forms of corporate media, it is unarguable that they and other web-based outlets have helped empower a serious challenge to traditional print and broadcast journalism. For the first time in history, uncompromised non-corporate voices are able to instantly challenge the filtered 'mainstream' version of events. This certainly helps explain the rise of Labour's Jeremy Corbyn, Podemos in Spain, and now...

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Last Chance President - Bernie Sanders And The Corporate Media
08 April 2016

Last Chance President - Bernie Sanders And The Corporate Media

The comedian Billy Connolly once observed that politicians aren't like the rest of us. They don't look like us, don't sound like us, and they rarely talk about issues that matter deeply to mere voters.

Senator Bernie Sanders, candidate for the Democrat's US Presidential nomination, on the other hand, does look and talk like 'ordinary' people. He is the kind of smart, straight-talking, Jewish New Yorker celebrated by shows like Seinfeld and Curb Your...

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Kunduz Killers Go Free
31 March 2016

Kunduz Killers Go Free

On the night of October 3, 2015, a United States Air Force AC-130 gunship repeatedly attacked a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. Forty-two people were killed and dozens wounded. The US military plane had conducted five strafing runs over the course of more than an hour despite MSF pleas to Afghan, US and Nato officials to call off the attack.

As we reported at the time, MSF were unequivocal in their condemnation of the Ameri...

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Jousting With Toothpicks - The Case For Challenging Corporate Journalism
3 YEARS AGO

Jousting With Toothpicks - The Case For Challenging Corporate Journalism

By David Edwards

 

A critic responding to a recent alert, objected to our use of the term 'corporate journalist':

'The problem is it has no clear meaning. Chomsky regularly writes for "corporate media", as do...

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