David Edwards, David Cromwell

Propaganda Blitz

How the Corporate Media Distort Reality

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Produktbeschreibung

A powerful, forensic critique of the mainstream media in the era of 'Fake News'

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 296g
• ISBN-13: 9780745338118
• ISBN-10: 0745338119
• Artikelnr.: 51966426

Autorenporträt

David Edwards is is co-editor and co-founder of Media Lens. He is the author of Free To Be Human (1995), The Compassionate Revolution (1998), and co-author, with David Cromwell, of Guardians of Power (2006), Newspeak in the 21st Century (2009), and Propaganda Blitz: How and Why Corporate Media Distort Reality (Pluto, 2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by John Pilger
Preface: The Devil's Greatest Trick
1. Anatomy of a Propaganda Blitz
2. Killing Corbyn
3. Smearing Assange, Brand and Chavez
4. Israel and Palestine: 'We Wait in Fear for the Phone Call from the
Israelis'
5. Libya: 'It is All About Oil'
6. Syria: Instant Certainty Promoting War
7. Yemen: Feeding the Famine
8. The BBC as a Propaganda Machine
9. Dismantling the National Health Service
10. Scottish Independence: An 'Amazing Litany' of Bias
11. Climate Chaos: An Inconvenient Emergency
12. 'Fake News', Objective Journalism and the No-Business Model
Notes
Index