Media Criticism

and the merciless battle to infect our minds How much should we think about the role of information in society? Background: Headlines after headlines. The US Department of Energy assesses a lableak likely with low confidence, the Wall Street Journal blasts out. The FBI director is even moderately confident, he…

Submitted today via the BBC website — I encourage you to submit your own complaint here and share this please! Thank you! Dear BBC, I am writing to complain about a series of reporting into the Afghan women’s football team refugees. This story “Evacuated Afghan women’s team included “false” footballers…

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Sydney Morning Herald editor Bevan Shields has published an article titled “We are not above criticism but these attacks go too far”, tearfully rending his garments over criticisms his paper’s three-part war-with-China propaganda series “Red Alert” has received from former Prime…

Who can you trust? In today’s world, there’s an abundance of information and disinformation, and it’s challenging discerning truth from falsehoods. Here are some tips that can help you find the truth about what’s really going on. Authenticity Criteria Verify the Source: Before believing any news, check the source's credibility…

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ David Frum and Max Boot, two neoconservatives who helped grease the wheels for the invasion of Iraq, have some thoughts they’d like to share with us as we approach the 20th anniversary of that horrific and unforgivable war. Both of these…

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ I’ve been ranting all week about the shocking war-with-China propaganda escalation in Australian mainstream media, and I feel like I could easily scream about it for another month without running out of vitriol for the disgusting freaks who are pushing this…