The Guardian made a welcome mention on its pages on July 1 that Israel is “an undeclared nuclear power”. But you would struggle to learn from the British media that Israel has a huge nuclear arsenal. In the prolific discussion of Iran and Syria’s nuclear programme in our media the past 2 months, this fact […]
Freelance journalist Shiv Malik must hand over his source material on terrorism to the police, the High Court ruled last week, slamming Malik for daring to take the case to a judicial review - and forcing him to pay costs.
Malik’s crucial test case succeeded in reining in the police, who had raided his house in […]
The Independent’s Matthew Norman demolishes David Aaronovitch’s call for military intervention in Zimbabwe:
The most influential armchair soldier in the Western world is back in his metaphorical fatigues. Yes, it’s Field Marshal David Aaronovitch, who championed the invasion of Iraq with more vigour than any fellow officer in Her Majesty’s First Light Pundits. There have been […]
The ballot for the election of NUJ deputy general secretary ends on July 4. Media Workers Against the War encourages our supporters in the union to vote for Michelle Stanistreet.
Michelle has been an inspirational figure at the Daily Express and Star, leading campaigns against the newspapers’ racism and Islamophobia, making the union’s “Journalism Matters” campaign […]
Dear Colleagues,
Alarming changes are taking place in the BBC World Service structure and we are asking for your help.
The management has decided that 50% of language services should be transferred to countries where the language is spoken. As the law in most of those countries does not allow foreign media organisations to operate locally, the […]
Regular update of analysis, events and campaigns. In this briefing:
SATURDAY: MWAW activists’ meeting
Police use “terror” laws to attack journalists
MEETING: Racism, war and Muslims
George Bush in London, protest Sunday June 15
So wrong for so long: US newspapers and Iraq
Somalia: Hidden catastrophe, hidden agenda
Media coverage of Palestine and Israel
From Basra to Beirut: US is gunning for Iran
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For the first time a mainstream editor – who just happens also to be a professional media-watcher – has written a book attacking the Iraq war coverage by the US corporate press. The author of “So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits, and the President Failed on Iraq” is Greg Mitchell, editor […]
Robert Fisk sees the recent eruption of conflict in Beirut as a “proxy” war between Washington and Tehran. Add this observation to US accusations that Hezbollah is training Iraqi militants in Iran, and the American military’s promised dossier on Iran’s role in the Iraq war, and you can see that the old drumbeat of war […]
The Today programme’s reporting of the assault on Basra and Baghdad’s Sadr City by the Iraqi government, backed by US and British troops, tanks and warplanes, has descended to the base assertion that our side is good, their side is bad.
Evan Davis, Today’s new presenter, introduced a section on Basra on May 2 which opened […]
Hidden by the mainstream UK media, the past three weeks has brought wonderful news – the freeing of Sami al-Haj, al-Jazeera cameraman, from Guantanamo, and Bilal Hussein, award-winning AP cameraman, from Iraq. The Guardian and the Press Gazette appear to be the only UK national news outlet to have covered their release. The Guardian’s Richard […]
