*CORPORATE “REFORM”* *MINISTRY OF TRUTH* *THE BOSS IS BACK* Ok. Ok. I blew the date again. Not a few of you wrote to remind me that July has 31 days and that August is not upon us until tomorrow. But sometimes time stands still and feels as if it repeats itself, as last summer’s rounds [...]
*BBC NEWS CHIEF TO MC: WRITE ON* *ORWELL LIVES* *AND SO DOES IMPERIALISM* THE BBC IS CEEING US First some pleasant news, or at least a sign that mediachannel.org is penetrating into dense media worlds were critical ideas are rarely heard, except at every water cooler in every media office in the world. John Owen, [...]
*MEDIA PREPARES US FOR WAR* *AT THE “CONCLAVE”* *WORKER HOMICIDES* Never has public opinion been so well prepared for a war –as in the endless media bantering about plans to attack Iraq. Almost every day, new stories appear that underscore the inevitability of armed conflict there, as a pseudo-debate rages in the higher reaches of [...]
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