by Media Lens / January 22nd, 2021
Back in 2017, before WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange was silenced by Twitter, he used the platform to highlight an immutable truth:
‘The overwhelming majority of information is classified to protect political security not national security.’
Power hates being exposed. It hates having its inner machinations, its selfish priorities and ugly operations opened up to public scrutiny.
The omission of inconvenient facts, and the silencing of inadmissible viewpoints, are core features of the so-called ‘mainstream’ news media. Thus, it should be obvious by now why we always put ‘mainstream’ in quotation marks. Because, as increasing numbers of the public surely now recognise, the major news media are
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Monday briefing: Spy-fiction master John le Carré dies Alison Rourke
Top story: ‘A literary giant’ © Photograph: Terry Fincher/Getty Images Author John le Carré has died, aged 89.
Good morning and welcome to this Monday briefing, with me, Alison Rourke.
Tributes have poured in for John le Carré, a giant of cold war thrillers and the pen behind one of Britain’s best-known fictional spies, George Smiley, who died of pneumonia on Saturday night, aged 89. Author Stephen King wrote: “This terrible year has claimed a literary giant and a humanitarian spirit.” Historian Simon Sebag Montefiore called him “the titan of English literature up there with the greats”. Le Carré (real name David Cromwell) novels came to symbolise the cold war, including Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; and The Night Manager. Having first interacted with the security services while at Oxford, he began working for them while studying German in S