Deception through omission: ‘The War on the OPCW’
An academic paper from the University of New South Wales in Australia describes four incidents where a virtual firehose of Russian propaganda was directed...
The Tragedy of Yulia Skripal
Somewhere, isolated from the rest of the world, nerve agent victim Yulia Skripal recently turned 40. She miraculously survived her alleged exposure to a...
War is Peace: How journalists vilify peace to rationalize war
Not too long ago, a meme was going viral on social media. It showed the horrified face of George Orwell, looking in disbelief and...
Schrödinger’s novichok: 12 points from the Dawn Sturgess inquiry, part 2
What happens when official evidence about a nerve agent death exists in impossible dual states? Part two of a three-part report on the Dawn...
Why We Must Fix the Media – and Save the World
Imagine if you will…
An evil dictator is on the brink of making a nuclear bomb at a secret facility carved deep inside the Zagros mountains....
The Atrocity of Western Mainstream Media
My 2017 book, Western Mainstream Media and the Ukraine Crisis: A Study in Conflict Propaganda (Routledge), chronicles the absurdly one-sided tunnel vision of Western...
Mass Shootings and Media Spin
Introduction
Mass shootings represent a complex and multifaceted phenomenon, drawing from individual, social, and environmental origins. Current legislative and media initiatives predominantly concentrate on firearm...
Mainstream news media, the state and censorship: What amounts to undue influence?
An article appeared in early editions of The Times on Saturday 18th June 2022 that alleged that Boris Johnson had attempted to hire Carrie...
Herman and Chomsky’s Propaganda Model
Editors Note: This short article is part of our series Key Thinkers and Ideas in Propaganda Studies.
In 1988 Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky published...
Follow Bitcoin: Media, Academia, Money and Propaganda
Time is money. Money talks. Money does not grow on trees. Save for a rainy day. There is no such thing as a free...