media

"It was 30 years ago, but I felt the same way the rioters did" - Tony Evans

Speech given by Tony Evans, football editor for the Times, about the lack of discourse during the riots and how journalists and media were culpable.

Postmodern anti-hero: capitalism and heroism in Taxi Driver - Matthew Iannucci

Film theory examining the themes of masculinity, media reportage and cinema worship in the landmark film of the 1970s.

Media manipulation over school bombing in Brindisi

Submitted by Italy Calling on May 22 2012 20:47

Last Saturday morning a bomb exploded outside the vocational college for young women “Morvillo-Falcone” in the Southern city of Brindisi, killing a teenage girl, Melissa Bassi, and severely wounding several other classmates.

Chomsky in New Scientist

Submitted by Choccy on Mar 19 2012 21:36

Chomsky interview in New Scientist

Goatse as industrial sabotage

DSG's piece on how obscene internet references are used by some workers as sabotage or resistance.

VIRAL/FERAL – Working class youth and the “social media revolution”

An article by Deterritorial Support Group on the emerging utilization of social media and its potential for working class youth.

A user's guide to détournement

“Mode d’emploi du détournement” originally appeared in the Belgian surrealist journal Les Lèvres Nues #8 (May 1956). This translation by Ken Knabb is from the Situationist International Anthology (Revised and Expanded Edition, 2006).

Wikileaks: The state persecutes its idealists - Junge Linke

Junge Linke discuss Wikileaks.

There is much more to say - Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky expands on his controversial article discussing the assassination of Osama Bin Laden.

Fallujah, Iraq 2004 - Misrata, Libya 2011

Medialens compare and contrast the coverage in the mainstream media of the attacks on Fallujah during the Iraq war, and the current attack on Misrata in Libya by Muammar Gadaffi's forces.