Tourists visiting Spanish cities like Córdoba, Toledo and Sevilla have the option of whiling away an hour or so at a ‘Museum of the Inquisition’, sometimes known as a ‘Gallery of Torture�...
https://www.medialens.org/2024/the-media-lens-chamber-of-propaganda-horrors-an-appeal-for-support/
A key function of the state-corporate media is to deny reality. They do supply news. But it is no accident that they supply news of a type that covers up the crimes of elite power. →
https://www.medialens.org/2024/genocide-enablers-gaza-and-the-corporate-media/
Corporate journalists are indeed ‘masters of self-adulation’, as Noam Chomsky has observed. In fact, they have to be; or at least they have to appear to be. Consider BBC World Affairs Editor ...
https://www.medialens.org/2024/israels-flour-massacre-when-a-crime-becomes-a-tragedy/
It is a historical fact that powerful elites do not wish to be diverted from pursuing their selfish interests by the public. Minimal, unthreatening expressions of dissent may be tolerated in oste...
https://www.medialens.org/2024/elite-fear-of-the-public-ukraine-gaza-and-assange/
Carlo Rovelli is a renowned Italian theoretical physicist and writer who has made important contributions to the physics of space and time. He is currently a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair...
https://www.medialens.org/2024/quantum-physics-and-buddhism-carlo-rovelli-encounters-nagarjuna/
‘I find Westerners in general, and Europeans in particular, extremely indoctrinated and obsessed with perceptions of their own uniqueness. Many see themselves as chosen people, after going thro...
https://www.medialens.org/2024/gaza-a-brutal-demonstration-of-western-values/
Last week, the Observer reported that the slogan ‘united we will win’ is a fixture on Israeli screens ‘for most TV news and talk shows’. Raviv Drucker, one of Israel’s leading investiga...
https://www.medialens.org/2024/john-pilger-a-majority-of-one/
Left-progressive websites don’t always get it right. Take Media Lens, for example. In October, we discussed the corporate media invention of so-called ‘disinformation experts’. We lampooned...
https://www.medialens.org/2023/genocide-the-gaze-from-the-abyss/
The Guardian has long promoted itself as a valiant publisher of news and analysis that holds the powerful to account. It is a thing of wonder that the Guardian appends the following comment benea...
In an interview this week on Talk TV, Piers Morgan subjected Jeremy Corbyn to an extraordinary barrage of questioning: ‘Are Hamas a terror group? Are they a terror group? Answer the question! A...
https://www.medialens.org/2023/are-hamas-a-terror-group-are-they-a-terror-group-answer-the-question/