Commission Britam : des associations socio-religieuses défendent l ancien juge Domah lemauricien.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lemauricien.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
by Media Lens / June 2nd, 2021
In contrast to Media Lens modestly marking a mere two decades in July, the
Guardian has been deluging itself with praise on reaching two centuries this year. Not that we would expect otherwise. As editor Katherine Viner proclaimed in a long, celebratory essay:
‘The Guardian is not the only newspaper to declare that it has a higher purpose than transmitting the day’s events in order to make a profit. But it might be unique in having held on to that sense of purpose for two centuries.’
From her editor’s throne, Viner portrayed the paper as a kind of collective enterprise rooted in a socially-aware commune:
Der Berliner Ballettschul-Skandal: Innenansichten eines Rufmords berliner-zeitung.de - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from berliner-zeitung.de Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
by Laura Wells / May 4th, 2021
Headlines from two major Venezuelan newspapers (Photo Credit: Laura Wells)
Even when we’re being lied to by almost every available source across the media and political spectrum, we can still become better lie detectors.
A focus on lies about Latin America is important because we do care about how the US treats other people, and we also need hope that things can improve in the US, in healthcare, housing, education, justice, the arts, and in the whole system of democracy. Some Latin American countries are lied about a lot, not because of oil, but because they represent to the powers-that-be what Noam Chomsky calls the “threat of a good example.” To the rest of us, they can represent the “hope of a good example.” Life can actually improve when governments are on the side of regular people.