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Welcome to Media Watch,
We at ZCom of course provide media, yet we are definitively not in the mainstream. What swims there are corporate and governmental entities that overwhelmingly - when presenting news and social analysis at all - take as a given support for elite machinations and maintanence of elite structures. Understanding this system supporting media, dissecting its deceptive manipulations, combating its oppressive implications, and pressuring it to contain better even against its own inclinations, is the aim of our attention to mainstream media - as well as, in time, replacing it in toto.
Here too, however, you will find articles and content about alternative media - its efforts, logic, etc.
Please send any ideas you may have for other or additional content from our database you think ought to appear in content boxes on this page.
Thank You.
Latest Media
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Lipsyte: Rush, Roger, Rupert, and The Donald May Ride Forever
As Do Pestilence, Famine, War, and Death
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Nader: Reporters’ Alert: Launching a New Website
From time to time we will use Reporter’s Alert to present suggestions for important reporting on topics that are either not covered or not covered thoroughly
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Paul: Fear and Celebration of Substack Are Both Misplaced
Corporate media certainly need disruption. But it has to happen at scale, not with a few writers here and there on an open microphone
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MacLeod: Humanitarian Imperialism
How corporate media sell regime change, Intervention and war to progressive audiences
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Twitter’s discrediting of leaked docs that show UK’s covert activities against Russia is a shocking case of media manipulation
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Klikauer: The Mass Deception Machine of Computational Propaganda
The US Republican Party, for example, finds it increasingly hard to win the popular vote. Consequently, it becomes ever more important for the right to win key areas to conjure up a narrow majority in the electoral college
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Paul: Guardian Columnist’s Firing Over Israel Joke Highlights Paper’s Rightward Drift
The Guardian has fired one of its columnists for its US edition, Nathan Robinson, because Robinson jokingly tweeted about US military aid to Israel
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Klikauer: Capitalism Profits From the Promulgation of Disinformation
We do not just live in a time of too much information. We live in a period of intense but often somewhat accidental misinformation as well as deliberate disinformation
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Cook: By putting Big Pharma’s patents before patients, doctors will further erode trust in experts
I have spent the past several years on my blog trying to highlight one thing above all others: that the institutions we were raised to regard as authoritative are undeserving of our blind trust
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Cockburn: Capitol Riots were a Dark Day for American Journalism
This symbiotic relationship between Trump and the media means that they do less and less reporting, allowing Trump and his supporters to provide the action while they provide the talking heads who thrive on venomous confrontation
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Driver: How Governments and the Media Help Corporations Get Away With Their Crimes
We need to question why we have given these organisations so much power and political influence. In a reasonable society, businesses would not be able to harm people
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Jay: Google Bans theAnalysis.news from Advertising on YouTube
YouTube has censored and suppressed my report on the events of January 6th. I’d like to know why, but Google doesn’t owe me an answer. They can promote or suppress whatever they please
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Hitler defined the Big Lie as an untruth so colossal that people ‘would not believe that others could distort the truth so infamously’. Trump’s claim that he won the election ‘in a landslide’ and victory was stolen from him is a lie of this sort
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Baker: The Failure of the Media in Responding to the Lying Right
Perhaps even more important is that the fact that mainstream media outlets allow public figures to spread their lies and not have it affect their reputation
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Emersberger: Ignoring Repression and Dirty Tricks in Coverage of Ecuador’s Election
Lies of omission characterize Reuters coverage of Latin American politics
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Risen: Biden Administration’s Push for Assange’s Extradition Is Bad News for Journalism
A successful prosecution of the WikiLeaks founder could empower the government to go after journalists for publishing classified information
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We must fight back. We need to understand that old corporate media like the Guardian are not an ally to the left, they are the enemy
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Paul: Covering School Reopening, Chicago Papers Pit Unions Against Parents
Anti-union forces around the country depend on Chicago’s editorial boards to blunt the force of the CTU, lest it inspire more teachers around the country
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Halarnkar: India is turning to colonial-era laws to silence journalists
Sedition charges are just the latest attempt by Narendra Modi’s government to undermine a free press. They must be opposed
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Driver: Psychology: Pretending There Is Nothing Wrong
The human brain is capable of great insights and independent thought, but we have conditioned ourselves not to ask too many difficult questions, because we are afraid of the answers
ZMag Media
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Cohen: Let Us Name the System: “Racial Capitalism”
It’s fascinating to see pundits on CNN, MSNBC and other networks now discussing “systemic racism” after they’d spent months during the Democratic presidential primaries in panicked overdrive propping up “the system.”
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Cook: Welcome to the Era of the Great Disillusionment
With a media in place that truly holds politicians to account and celebrates scientists for their contributions to collective knowledge, not their usefulness to corporate enrichment—we would not need to worry about the safety of our communications systems or medicines
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Cook: The bigger picture is hiding behind a virus
If only we could redirect our gaze, if we could seize back control of our attention for a moment, we might understand that we are being plagued not just by a virus but by our fear, our hate, our hunger, our selfishness
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Cohn: Extradition of Assange Would Set a Dangerous Precedent
The Trump administration is seeking extradition of WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, to the United States for trial on charges carrying 175 years in prison
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Rosenberg: Why is Animal Research So Seldom in the News?
The animal-research industry is a vast, macabre enterprise richly supporting medical centers and individual researchers with almost no transparency or accountability
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Cohen: What George Carlin Taught Us about Media Propaganda by Omission
Corporate TV news outlets serve up a series of partial scores. Call it “propaganda by omission”
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Chomsky: Economic Boom” a Sham
The deaths of despair are estimated at 150,000 a year, contributing to the decline in life expectancy in the U.S. for the past two years, the first time since World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic—a phenomenon unprecedented in developed societies
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Pilger: The War on Venezuela is Built on Lies
A war has been declared on Venezuela, of which the truth is “too difficult” to report
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Cook: Bolsonaro: A Monster Engineered By Our Media
The western elites will decry Bolsonaro in the forlorn and cynical hope of shoring up their credentials as guardians of the existing, supposedly moral order. But they engineered him. Bolsonaro is their monster
Video Media
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Media: News Corp Bargaining Code
Juice Media’s hilarious expose of the Australian government’s new media legislation that allows News Corp in on Big Tech’s action
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Interview on the current US protest spreading like fire across the country following the police killing of George Floyd, the forthcoming US elections and why it is crucial to vote not for someone in this case, but against someone
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Greenwald: Media “tragically vindicated” Trump by overhyping Russiagate
"We were all so much more fascinated by this superficial, melodramatic espionage thriller that has completely destroyed the credibility of the U.S. media."
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Greenwald: The Media and Political Humiliation from the Mueller Report
I obviously intended to write about the fallout from Attorney...
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Hedges: Crucifying Julian Assange
Chris Hedges and Joe Lauria, journalist and editor-in-chief, Consortium, discuss...
Blogs Media
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: Media Coverage Misrepresents Yemen’s Real Problems
Yemen has found itself splashed all over the news again...
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Peterson: Srebrenica-Related Graves Through 2002
On behalf of the Bosnian Serb defendant Ljubiša Beara in...
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Paul: ‘The War You Don’t See’: Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel/Palestine
Global Policy Forum, Blog http://globalpolicyinbrief.blogspot.com/ Seven months prior to the...
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Kearns: The “middle class mob”: press coverage of Saturday’s UK Uncut action
Discourses around protests develop pretty quickly such that it's tricky...
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Sinclair: Email exchange with the BBC’s Mark Mardell about US military aid to Egypt
Please see below an email exchange I had in January...
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Campagna: What Are We Struggling For? – Seminar
Last year’s student protests saw a new generation take to...
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Dominick: NY Times’s Sympathy for the Devils
I've spent my entire adult life writing media analysis, so...
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Peterson: Solidarity Versus Indifference — Part 4
When citizens of foreign countries are denied their democratic rights,...
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Peterson: Solidarity Versus Indifference — Part 3
When citizens of foreign countries are denied their democratic...
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Audio Media
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Schechter: Michael Albert On Participatory Media
A former member of Students for a Democratic Society, Michael would go on to develop, along with Robin Hahnel, an alternative to market capitalism called participatory economics.
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Wilpert: Announcing TeleSUR English
Greg Wilpert is director of teleSUR English, a newly launched multimedia website that is sponsored by teleSUR, the Latin American TV channel that is funded by the left governments of Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Uruguay, Argentina, Nicaragua, and Cuba
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Bennis: Afghanistan after the Wikileaks War Logs
Interview about the impact of the Wikileaks documents and the...
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Pilger: Journalism and the War on Terror
John Pilger is an acclaimed Australian journalist and documentary maker....
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Robbins: Address to National Association of Broadcasters
A renowned actor, director and writer, Robbins used his keynote...