Media Lens
Media Lens is a UK-based media watchdog. It is our response to the increasingly centralised, corporate, state-subservient nature of the mislabelled ‘mainstream’ media system.
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The Nepal And Tibet Flood - Another Warning, Another Failure To Respond (opens the original)
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Listen on Substack, YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (opens the original)
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New alerts and cogitations are now available as podcasts on Substack, YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. If you prefer to listen, please subscribe to our podcast on those platforms and you’ll be notified of new episodes. Each new episode is a narrated version of an
4 Billion Dead: ‘There Are No Words’ (opens the original)
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Audio narration by Matt Alford If you need an indication of how divorced the ‘mainstream’ media is from reality, consider this: the possibility of at least 4 billion deaths resulting from 3 degrees Celsius of global warming by 2050 made barely a dent in news headlines. Last year, a team of experts from the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and the University of Exeter published a report , ‘Planetary Solvency – finding our balance with nature’. The report examined the risks and likely catastroph
‘Let’s Just Embrace A Mediterranean Lifestyle’: Climate Lunacy And Burnham's 'Pragmatism' (opens the original)
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‘Britain can’t stop climate change. Let’s just embrace a Mediterranean lifestyle’ This has to be a serious candidate for the most foolish comment ever made publicly by a British newspaper editor. Allister Heath, editor of the Sunday Telegraph, opined : ‘We’ve lost the war against global warming - so we should ditch net zero and learn to handle hot weather.’ One might wonder which trench Heath occupied in the ‘war against global warming,’ given that the Telegraph titles have spent decades in the
25 Years Of Media Lens – The BBC’s Paul Adams On Iran (opens the original)
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Audio narration by Matt Alford This month marks the 25th anniversary of Media Lens. Still in short trousers, we sent our first media alert to a handful of readers on 9 July 2001. For a long time, our alerts focused on challenging journalists directly by email, publishing their responses, and encouraging readers to politely respond with their own views. One of the most positive exchanges involved the BBC’s diplomatic editor Paul Adams. From his news reports, we had always got the impression that
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