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Stopped clocks and the corporate media
Rather than dismissing it the left should be intelligent consumers of the mainstream media, argues IAN SINCLAIR
Front pages of national newspapers reporting on the inauguration of US President Donald Trump on January 21, 2017
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
THERE seems to be an increasing and dismaying tendency among some people who self-identify as left wing to dismiss mainstream media reporting out of hand.
Anything the Guardian or other corporate newspapers report is ridiculed and ignored. For example, I recently tweeted about a Guardian article which gave an overview of the ongoing protests around the world. I quickly received this sarcastic response: “From the newspaper that supports Assange [the Guardian has repeatedly smeared Julian Assange] … The Sun seems honest in comparison.”
What part of the article did my correspondent take issue with? “I’d rather ignore that rag’s liberal pretensions from here on. They’re just a collection of churnalists and presstitutes,” they replied.
I agree, of course, that the Guardian and the rest of the mainstream media are horribly compromised and Establishment-friendly in much of their journalism and political positions.
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