{"id":11404,"date":"2009-10-15T08:32:41","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T13:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11404"},"modified":"2009-10-15T08:33:27","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T13:33:27","slug":"medialens-the-balance-of-power-exchanges-with-bbc-journalists-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11404","title":{"rendered":"medialens: The Balance of Power &#8211; Exchanges with BBC Journalists &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>medialens<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.medialens.org\/alerts\/\">15 October 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In our previous alert (&#8216;The Westminster Conspiracy,&#8217; October 8; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medialens.org\/alerts\/archive.php\">http:\/\/www.medialens.org\/alerts\/archive.php<\/a>) we described how the media&#8217;s insistence that journalists be &#8216;balanced&#8217;, that they keep their personal opinions to themselves, is used as a tool of thought control. <\/p>\n<p>Journalists who criticise powerful interests can be attacked for their &#8216;bias&#8217;, for revealing their prejudices. On the other hand, as we will see in the examples below, almost no-one protests, or even notices, the lack of balance in patriotic articles reporting on the experience of British troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, on the credibility of British and American elections, or on claims that the West is spreading democracy across the Third World. Then, notions of patriotism, loyalty, the need to support &#8216;our boys&#8217;, make &#8216;balance&#8217; seem disloyal, disrespectful; an indication, in fact, that a journalist is &#8216;biased.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.medialens.org\/alerts\/\">Read the alert<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>medialens 15 October 2009 In our previous alert (&#8216;The Westminster Conspiracy,&#8217; October 8; http:\/\/www.medialens.org\/alerts\/archive.php) we described how the media&#8217;s insistence that journalists be &#8216;balanced&#8217;, that they keep their personal opinions to themselves, is used as a tool of thought control. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11404\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2XW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11404"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11412,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11404\/revisions\/11412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}