The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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Here is the news: right-wing bias, cover-ups and downright lying
It’s the Media, Stupid! is a timely exposé of the shameful state of this country's national press, says PETER LAZENBY
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This right-wing conspiracy theory is used to justify the coercive measures against gender, race and labour rights that best serve capitalism, attests GAVIN O’TOOLE
KENNY MONROSE recommends a new exhibition that highlights the significance of Black British music
ANGUS REID is bowled over by an exuberant film about the making of Keith Jarrett’s legendary concert
MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
It’s the Media, Stupid!
Edited by Granville Williams
Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom North, £9.99
JUST published, It’s the Media, Stupid! appears against the background of the majority of the national press defending and covering up for a Tory government whose ineptitude in the handling of the coronavirus crisis is difficult to parallel.
The press’s performance, and the manipulation by the government of the BBC in its coverage of the crisis, represents yet another low in Britain’s media — depths most recently plumbed from 2015 to 2019 in its vilification of Jeremy Corbyn during his leadership of the Labour Party.
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