Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] seems vaery like a typically dated, crude attempt at ineffective Anglo-US mind control: ‘the Allies’ are equally adept at AP, albeit of a different type. ‘This Week’, BBC TV, 23 September 2004. 15 Financial Terrorists: An example could be those known collectively as the Russian oil oligarchs, whose corruption is responsible for as much […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)
[…] The Warren Report (Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1964), p. 201. Mailer filmed interview in Robert Stone’s 85 minute documentary, Oswald’s Ghost. Most recently shown on BBC Four on 5 June 2007. Bugliosi seems not to be aware of this novelettish silliness. And on the subject of Mailer, did anyone ever get beyond […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)
[…] the essays on the workings of the media and state propaganda; and of those the most interesting pieces to me are by the journalists: Tim Llewellyn, former BBC reporter, on how the corporation persuades itself that it isn’t pro-Israeli; Yvonne Ridley on waking-up to the reality of what the major media was doing; and […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)
[…] also points out that ‘chroniclers of the New Labour government as well as biographers of the Prime Minister have effectively ignored Rupert Murdoch’. Jon Sopel of the BBC never mentioned him in his 1995 Blair biog; in 550 pages on New Labour, The Observer’s Andrew Rawnsley gave Murdoch three name checks; and John Rentoul […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)
[…] Spending Review indicated that, if there is money to spare, it would go to the security and intelligence services and into soft power arrangements (such as the BBC Arabic and Farsi broadcast channels) and not into the sort of military resource that could cope with more than one military intervention at a time. The […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)
[…] leads a campaign to join the euro (via two year membership of the ERM) with the great and the good, the CBI, the big multi-nationals and the BBC and ITV. This succeeds narrowly and the UK duly enters the ERM – at around 3 D-marks to the pound – too high for the manufacturing […]