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How one spook-run London college department is training the worlds social media managers

CCHS — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 00:50:04 +0000

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 […]

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Media Lens: The Ukraine War Propaganda Blitz

CCHS — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 03:30:44 +0000

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 […]

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Demonize then kill: the role of media and social networks in imperialist domination

CCHS — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 09:18:27 +0000

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 […]

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The Strange Demise of the American Herald Tribune, Another independent news source is suppressed, by Philip Giraldi

CCHS — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 07:19:34 +0000

“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 […]

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Sharing Knowledge and “Microbubbles”: Epistemic Communities and Insularity in US Political Journalism, by Nikki Usher and Yee Man Margaret Ng

CCHS — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 08:08:45 +0000

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 […]

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War and media since 9/11, two book reviews by Piers Robinson

CCHS — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 02:49:05 +0000

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,

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Expanding the Field of Political Communication: Making the Case for a Fresh Perspective Through ‘Propaganda Studies’, Piers Robinson

CCHS — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 02:39:33 +0000

“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 […]

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Tianna Sukkarieh: the media on Syria, fighting the spin

CCHS — Sun, 13 May 2018 12:24:31 +0000

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

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Shamikh Badra speaks on Media Distortions over Palestine

CCHS — Sun, 13 May 2018 12:22:22 +0000

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

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Tim Anderson: ‘Reading Controversies: Palestine, Syria, Venezuela’

CCHS — Sun, 13 May 2018 12:19:08 +0000

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

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