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The ‘media’ is always telling us not to trust the media. Isn’t it time we started to listen to them? By James Porteous 14 May 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News by James Porteous In theory, North East West South (news) just happens. Much like the myth that the word ‘news’ was derived…
An unsettling and detailed documentary describing the many events over the past decade that led to the Russian invasion of Ukraine 11 April 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News The Fake and Offical 24/7 News Streams By James Porteous | Clipper Media News As you will see in this documentary, the situation in…
There are many anomalies and easy solutions offered in the ‘media circus’ that has become The Ukraine War, but The Listening Post addresses many of them. Photo: Screenshot: The Listening Post 05 March 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News Ukraine: The information war ‘Wars often generate reporting that delivers more heat than light…
In his latest essay, John Pilger describes the changes in the reporting of war crises such as the ‘imminent invasion’ of Ukraine Photo: Britain is arming Ukraine and training its army. Image: Pexels John Richard Pilger is an Australian journalist, writer, scholar, and documentary filmmaker. He has been mainly based in Britain since 1962. He…
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The term was originally used to describe pirates’ wielding of friendly (and false) flags to lure merchant ships close enough to attack. Nothing has changed, really. Illustration: (US State Dept./M. Gregory) 18 February 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media A false flag operation is an act committed with the intent of disguising the actual source…
If you thought media had stopped reporting ‘news’ and will now instead ‘nudge’ viewers to change their lifestyles, you were not wrong. Photo: screenshot: The Power of TV: Nudging Viewers to Decarbonise their Lifestyles 09 November 2021 | BRENDAN O’NEILL | Spiked TV news used to be about informing people. Now it’s about manipulating us….
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Photo: The masks come off: from July 19, there will be no legal requirement in England to wear a face covering.Neil Hall/EPA-EFE 19 July 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media Oh dear. This could be problematic. The words ‘covid’ and ‘propaganda’ in the same headline? The original author is probably safe from viral contusions…
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