1 February 2011 - Does Britain support Mubarak or not?
25 January 2011 - Is corruption or 'anger at corruption' the problem in Egypt?

3 February 2011 - Prejudice against the Muslim Brotherhood
1 February 2011 - An anti-Mubarak protester interviewed

Forgetting Complicity: Immediate Coverage of a Dictator's Life Sentence
Josh Watts, 11 June 2012

In both the UK and the US, it is overwhelmingly the case that the mainstream media present the actions of their respective governments as benign and devoid of self interest. Consequently, any actions which may on the surface appear aggressive are interpreted as defensive or undertaken in good faith, in the...

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In Perspective: a Comparison of BBC Reporting with 1960's Propaganda
Graham Bell, 19 August 2011

Suez in Perspective, a Central Office of Information film made in 1960, four years after the Suez Canal Crisis, provides - based on what we now know - an imbalanced, and in some ways, false account of the 1956 British invasion of Port Said and the Suez Canal. The film, which...

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Obama's Middle East Plans: Democracy, Freedom (and Trade Liberalisation)
Graham Bell, 20 May 2011

At the recent 25th anniversary of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) (May 11th, 2011) in the US, Noam Chomsky summarised one aspect of the US diplomatic attitude with the following quote: When there's a favoured dictator and he's getting into trouble, support him as long as possible, full support as long...

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The Reporting of the Anti-Mubarak Protests
Graham Bell, 4 February 2011

The events in Egypt and Tunisia have put UK news organisations in a bit of a tight situation. Until now, it has been easy to hide the western ally leaders around Africa and the Middle East from mainstream western news. Western governments have, as the BBC lightly put it “turned a...

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