In response to Israeli regime claims, reported in Bild, German state media Deutsche Welle debunked the idea that Gaza starvation photos were staged. https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-gaza-famine-photos-not-staged/a-73626929 Anwar Ashraf08/15/2025August 15, 2025 Images of starving children and desperate families in Gaza have […]
By Alan Macleod at MintPress, original post here The Trump administration’s decision to pause USAID funding has plunged hundreds of so-called “independent media” outlets into crisis, thereby exposing a worldwide network of thousands of journalists, all working to […]
By Alan MacLeod, posted Aug 24, 2022, in several places including here: https://mronline.org/2022/08/24/how-one-spook-run-london-college-department-is-training-the-worlds-social-media-managers/ Staffed by NATO military officers and former government ministers and notorious for training the West’s top spies, the Department of War Studies at King’s College London is […]
Media lens reflects on the latest propaganda storm from the NATO embedded war media. Original post is here: https://www.medialens.org/2022/doubling-down-on-double-standards-the-ukraine-propaganda-blitz/ The American population was bombarded the way the Iraqi population was bombarded. It was a war against us, a […]
By Atilio Boron, first published at Al Maydeen: https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/1491397/demonize-first-then-kill:-a-note-on-the-role-of-media-and-so “Propaganda is to democracy what violence is to dictatorship” – Noam Chomsky The sentence of the great American linguist offers a good starting point for these reflections that we […]
“What is happening here is an effort by the U.S. government to suppress any news source if it can be plausibly linked to a foreign government that is unfriendly. “ PDF below, the original post at Dissident Voice is […]
Abstract:This article examines the peer-to-peer dynamics of Washington political journalists as Communities of Practice (CoPs) to better understand how journalists connect to and learn from each other and establish conventional knowledge. We employ inductive computational analysis that combines […]
Reviews of Romy Fröhlich (ed.) (2018) Media in War and Armed Conflict: The Dynamics of Conflict News and Dissemination, Routledge: Abingdon; and Lindsay Palmer (2018) Becoming the Story: War Correspondents since 9/11, University of Illinois Press: Chicago, IL,
“A research agenda based on propaganda studies can provide a fuller and more accurate understanding of the role of communication in the exercise of power, serving better the objectives of speaking truth to power, holding power to account […]
Tianna Sukkarieh speaks about the media on Syria, fighting spin and sabotage; at the ‘Reading Controversies’ seminar, University of Sydney, 21 April 2018 Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut3tYOZhqrU
Shamikh Badra speaking on Peace Journalism and Media Distortions over Palestine at the ‘Reading Controversies’ seminar at the University of Sydney, 21 April 2018 Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0QoKTy_1b8&t=533s
Tim Anderson presents on reading through propaganda storms, at the ‘Reading Controversies’ seminar, University of Sydney, 21 April 2018 Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWyrxc_RJXk&t=5s
Western Media and the Syrian MacGuffin by Tianna Sukkarieh CCHS essay, August 2017 “The eruption of the Syrian conflict in 2011 saw the development of not only the most documented and photographed war in human history, but also […]
‘Countering War Propaganda: of the dirty war on Syria’ is a selection of counter-propaganda images used on social media during the NATO-led proxy war against Syria, from 2011 to 2017. This is an entirely graphical companion piece to […]