Bellingcat attacks Bonanza Media
Editors' Note: Controversy over the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 has persisted with the West and its allies blaming the pro-Russian separatists in...
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 Covid-19 Concoction: A Recipe for Successful Psychological Operations
Abstract: When viewed as a war story, the COVID-19 narrative framed in corporate media urges citizens to be on a constant “war footing” 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...
The Politics of Suicide
It is an unwritten rule of news reporting that suicides in general should not be reported on, and when they are, this should be...
Models of War Propaganda and Media
The Study of Propaganda
The formal study of propaganda is impregnated with academic discourses from literature (including rhetoric and narrative), linguistics (semiotics), sociolinguistics (discourse), psychology...
Taking Tucker Carlson Seriously, Part Three: 11/22, 9/11, 7/13
(Editors' note: this article is part three of a series. Read Part One and Part Two.)
“ … I lie. If I’m really cornered or...
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...
Whose Disinformation Is It Anyway? BBC vs Critical Academics
BBC Radio recently broadcast a File on 4 programme called Ukraine: The Disinformation War, promoted with the strapline ‘British academics accused of sharing Russian...
Manifesto for Peace Media in the 21st Century
Professors and researchers in the field of communication launch a manifesto calling for the media to serve peace.
In the midst of an upsurge of...