Articles by David Cromwell
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Where Journalism Collides With State ‘Security’: BBC News, MI5 and the Mantra of ‘Keeping People Safe’
David Cromwell – Media Lens,
21 Oct 2013
We make no apology for again citing the American writer H. L. Mencken: ‘The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.’
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David Cromwell – Znet,
14 Jan 2010
Ignoring or downplaying Western crimes is a standard feature of the corporate Western media. On rare occasions when a broadcaster or newspaper breaks ranks and reports ‘our’ crimes honestly, it is instructive to observe the response from the rest of the media. Do they follow suit, perhaps digging deeper for details, devoting space to profiles […]
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