Newspeak in the 21st century / David Edwards and David Cromwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edwards, David, 1962-

Contributor:

Cromwell, David, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalism--Objectivity--Great Britain.

Journalism.

Journalism--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Mass media--Objectivity--Great Britain.

Mass media.

Mass media--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Journalistic ethics--Great Britain.

Journalistic ethics.

Press and politics--Great Britain--History--21st century.

Press and politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Newspeak in the twenty-first century

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Pluto Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since 2001, Media Lens has encouraged thousands of readers to challenge the filtered and distorted version of the world provided by major newspapers and broadcasters. The media responses, collected in Newspeak, are an expose of the arrogance and servility to power of our leading journalists and editors, starring Andrew Marr, Alan Rusbridger, Roger Alton, Jon Snow, Jeremy Bowen and even George Monbiot. Picking up where the highly acclaimed and successful Guardians of Power (2006) left off, Newspeak is packed with forensic media analysis, revealing the lethal bias in "balanced"; reporting. Even the "best"; UK media -- the Guardian, the Independent, Channel 4 News and the BBC -- turn out to be cheerleaders for government, business and war. Alongside an A-Z of BBC propaganda and chapters on Iraq and climate change, Newspeak focuses on the demonisation of Iran and Venezuela, the Israel-Palestine conflict, the myth of impartial reporting and the dark art of smearing dissidents.

Contents:

No conspiracy : solving the propaganda puzzle

BBC balance : the magnificent fiction

Back to back bias : an A-Z of BBC propaganda

Climate chaos : keeping madness mainstream

Plan A/Plan B: the Downing Street memo

Mind your methodology : killing the 2004 Lancet report

One million dead and counting : the 2006 Lancet report and beyond

Bitter harvest : bombings in Britain, Spain and Iraq

Israel and Palestine : an eye for an eyelash

Real men go to Tehran : targeting Iran

Iran in Iraq

Venezuela : dousing the firebrand

Liberal press gang : behind the scenes at the Independent and the Guardian

Brilliant fools : snarls, smears and the dark art of Willy-waving

Compassion, awareness and honest journalism.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781783710690

1783710691

9781849644259

184964425X

OCLC:

658007698