Category Archives: Media

Bloggers Wanted: social reporting for High Wycombe

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I am rubbish at this. Can you do better? Ever thought: “I could make more sense.” Well now is your chance. The Transition Town blog on the Bucks Free Press was always intended to be a collaborative effort with multiple bloggers. These days it often sounds like one hand clapping. Swish, swish, swish. Do you have something to say about High Wycombe’s future? Got a burning issue to get off your chest? The time has never been better. A while back we invited the local green community to form a blogging team but nothing came of it. So maybe this is not about one community. Maybe it is about all of us? Continue reading →

David Edwards & David Cromwell “Guardians of Power – The Myth of the Liberal Media”

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ISBN 978-0-7453-2482-1 “The Guardians of Power – The Myth of the Liberal Media” by David Edwards and David Cromwell (of Media Lens) published by Pluto Press in 2006. This paperback version contains 241 pages including a Foreword by John Pilger, 13 chapters, Resource section and Index. This book is essentially a UK version of Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman’s “Manufacturing Consent” (Random House 1988). Produced some eighteen years later it is able to take in the events of 9/11 and the subsequent so-called “War on Terror” from the British perspective. The authors attempt to update and validate the Chomsky/Herman “Propaganda Model” of the media. Continue reading →

Manufacturing Consent – Noam Chomsky and the Media

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1992′s “Manufacturing Consent – Noam Chomsky and the Media” was put together by Mark Achbar (Co-Produced and co-Directed) who also brought us “The Corporation” in 2005. In fact he makes specific reference to his previous work in the Commentary and the “Making of… The Corporation” as featured on the DVD presentation of the later work. This is recommendation enough as “The Corporation” is one best made movies in this category you will ever see. Sadly “Manufacturing Consent” is as dull as the 1988 book (of the same name as co-authored with Ed Herman) is fascinating. Continue reading →

Nick Davies “Flat Earth News”

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ISBN 9780099512684. “Flat Earth News” was published by Chatto & Windus in 2008 (this impression by Vintage in 2009). Nick Davies’ book is a mighty 420 pages long with the index but excluding the Prologue. This work should be read alongside another book published by the Random House Group of companies, and that is “Manufacturing Consent” by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman. Nick makes no mention of the 1988 work but his 2008 book largely brings the work across the Atlantic and updates it from a Journalist’s point of view. He improves it by trying to move away upon focussing on the Media owners and advertisers, and on to the very origin of news stories and how Journalism has changed. Continue reading →