07.21.07 - 03:50pm
Freedland is supposed to be a classic liberal columnist in Britain’s leading progressive newspaper, yet the article is an instructive example of the way the media accommodates to the establishment line, trying to manufacture consent by means of framing the discussion in a certain way.
07.10.07 - 05:31pm
It is so rare to see someone prepared to tackle the appalling failures of the mainstream media, in the UK or the US, actually have an opportunity to get on the screens that it is not so much a breath of fresh air as a gale. Michael Moore absolutely laid into the feeble Wolf Blitzer on CNN earlier. Blitzer’s attempts to defend CNN from Moore’s charges regarding both the Iraq war and American health care were transparently weak.
