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African National Congress endorses Israel boycott

January 15, 2013
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Here’s an interesting experiment: Google the sentence “African National Congress approves Israel boycott.” You’ll see from the results (at least as of January 115, 2013) that the only sources with any information on this story are those related to the BDS movement or a few Israeli news organizations. Here are related pieces from The Jerusalem Post, Jewish News online, and the Jewish Journal.  Remarkably, there is virtually no coverage of this story in the mainstream media in the West.  And yet it is highly significant that the ANC, South Africa’s ruling party, voted in December 2012 to make boycotts, divestment and sanctions…

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Media failures in the Iran war debate

March 16, 2012
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Has the American media informed or mislead the public on the debate about whether or not the US should initiate or support an attack on Iran? In this article, originally published in Foreign Policy, Stephen Walt, Professor of International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, provides a helpful list of the top ten media failures on this issue. He also participated in this related discussion on an NPR radio program.   .  

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Alien spaceship found in Baltic Sea

February 6, 2012
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There are two main English-language newspapers in Korea, one of which is the Korea Times. Today’s top headline news in that paper asserts that “an international team of oceanic experts have found an alien ship from Planet Gootan on the bottom of the Baltic Sea.” The article goes on to point out that “the ship was abandoned, but experts from the U.N. Panel of Extraterrestrials told WWN that the Gootans were using the Baltic Sea as a base to spy on humans.” The full article can be read here.  I believe there are two possible explanations for how this story got…

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What real journalism looks like

February 2, 2012
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Just imagine how much better things could be if journalists like Vincent Browne and Amy Goodman were the norm rather than the exception.

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Keeping the public in the dark about climate change

January 16, 2012
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Keeping the public in the dark about climate change

If enough people were well informed about the reality and likely consequences of climate change the political changes required to bring this problem under control would surely be happening a lot quicker than they are. An important question then is why this problem is still insufficiently appreciated. There are a number of well-known and documented causal factors contributing to public ignorance about climate change. In the first place, according to this recent study by the Daily Climate organization, media coverage of climate change is actually decreasing at the very time (2010, 2011) that it should be increasing. Here is a…

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