MediaLens.org

Hmmm. I recommend MediaLens. No doubt it is biased against the US and the UK, as critics of the activist world-view monotonously claim. I don't quite get that objection: for one thing, there's so vastly much left out of the mainstream media that it's got to be worthwhile seeking alternative points of view, even if they're biased. You don't get the full story by looking at only one point of view.

For another thing, you're talking about two countries who illegally invaded another nation without ANY sort of excuse, as the mainstream media is belatedly reporting, and who consciously manipulate the media to protray themselves and their actions as favourably as possible. It's not unfair to be skeptical about them.

Maybe I should let MediaLens speak in their own words:

Facing Goliath:

What we are inviting readers to do is to redefine the standards by which the media are judged. People occasionally write to us suggesting that we praise an article in the Independent, or a couple of reports by Channel 4, on the grounds that they 'deserve to be mentioned in a relatively positive light when compared to the shockingly servile reporting of the situation we're getting from the BBC and the rest of the media'.

But what we are suggesting is that the entire corporate media is complicit in the devastation of the Third World, in the possibly terminal devastation of the environment, and in mass murder. They do not merely allow this to happen, they are vital in articulating the deceit of benevolent 'normality' by which obscenity is perennially camouflaged. There could be no clearer example of this than the staggering refusal of the media to demand the resignation or impeachment of Tony Blair.

The performance of the media suggests that literally nothing could persuade journalists to awaken from their establishment slumber - they are just too comfortable, too privileged, too compromised.

We must build alternative media, now, providing a rational and compassionate response to the problems facing us. We need to create a media liberated from the drive for profit, greed, egotism and power.