Posts Tagged ‘media’

Books, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, December 10, 2011 20:06 - 1 Comment

Books | Review: The Political Economy of Media and Power

John Robertson reviews 'The Political Economy of Media and Power', edited by Jeffery Klaehn, an interdisciplinary collection addressing some of the most important issues at the intersections between mass media and the politics of power.

Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, October 8, 2011 9:00 - 2 Comments

Media | A Note on The Propaganda Model: Chomsky-Herman vs Herman-Chomsky

The Herman/Chomsky propaganda model of the media, as articulated in the seminal "Manufacturing Consent', was published more than two decades ago. In a new essay, Milan Rai examines the subtle but key differences between Noam Chomsky's understanding of the model and his co-author's.

New in Ceasefire, Politics - Monday, September 26, 2011 16:24 - 2 Comments

Analysis ‘Flat Earth News’ from Oslo

After reading Nick Davies' 'Flat Earth News', Ceasefire's Matthew Butcher finds that the book provides an illuminating context to why press coverage of the Oslo massacres was so dismal.

Ceasefire Bites, New in Ceasefire, Politics - Friday, September 9, 2011 12:36 - 2 Comments

Analysis Ron Paul: consistent, popular, invisible

Ron Paul Addresses Clark County Republican Party

Over the past year, Ron Paul has emerged as a serious contender to be the Republican nominee for the US presidential election of 2012. And yet, as Sebastião Martins reports, he remains virtually ignored by most of the US mainstream media, despite consistently strong showings in polls and public positions highly in tune with popular opinion.

Letters from Brussels, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, November 18, 2010 0:00 - 0 Comments

Letters from Brussels 18-11-2010

In "Letters from Brussels", Ceasefire correspondent Emily Makintosh gives us her alternative round-up and analysis of European news. In this week's column, she looks at the Media.

Ceasefire Bites, New in Ceasefire, Politics - Tuesday, November 16, 2010 0:00 - 1 Comment

Remember, remember the tenth of November

Ceasefire correspondent Malte Ringer, who was present at the Millbank protest last week, reports on the event and its aftermath. In particular, he debunks media reports describing the protest as ‘terrifying violence and bloodshed’ by a ‘baying mob’.

Ideas, New in Ceasefire, Profiles - Thursday, October 28, 2010 0:00 - 9 Comments

Profile: Slavoj Žižek – The Dog’s Bollocks … at the Media Dinner Party

In an exclusive essay, Paul Taylor explains why Slavoj Žižek stands out so forcefully from the conventional commentariat and debunks two frequently voiced objections to his work – the obscene humour and his refusal to provide ready-made solutions for the problems he so readily identifies.

New in Ceasefire, The Ceasefire Sessions - Wednesday, October 27, 2010 12:00 - 0 Comments

Ceasefire Magazine presents: Michael Albert

Ceasefire is very pleased to be hosting the legendary Michael Albert’s 2-day visit to Nottingham. Albert is a writer, activist, author of ‘parecon: life after capitalism’ and co-founder of ZNET, one of the world's greatest alternative media organisations.

CounterSpin, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, October 3, 2010 0:15 - 1 Comment

CounterSpin – Quality Control: Why ‘great’ (media) minds think alike

From the “Muslim plot against the pope" that never was to “Red Ed” Miliband’s victory, Musab Younis shows, in this week's CounterSpin column, how the media industry systemically enforces conformity within its ranks. Indeed, a journalist’s route to success, Younis argues, is not merely a readiness to obey orders, but the hard-earned discipline not to need them at all.

CounterSpin, Politics - Thursday, September 23, 2010 11:15 - 3 Comments

CounterSpin – Unnatural Selection: It’s only news when we say it is.

You probably know that a woman threw a cat in a bin in Coventry this month. You probably don't know that 75 people have been killed in Pakistan by US drones this month. This isn't anything to do with you or your interest in current affairs. As Musab Younis shows in this week's CounterSpin column, the importance of a news story has almost no bearing on the coverage it receives.