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Originally posted on Tim Hayward:
The Syria, Propaganda and Media Working Group has undertaken a detailed examination of the final report from the OPCW’s Fact-Finding Mission on the alleged chemical attack in Douma on 7 April 2018. The resultant Briefing Note – by Paul McKeigue, David Miller, and Piers Robinson – exposes deep flaws in…
Originally posted on Dr Piers Robinson:
As tensions continue to rise between the West and Russia, increasing attention is being paid in Western media to what are frequently described as the ‘propaganda’ activities of Russia. Regarding the recent setting up of Sputnik News in Edinburgh,The Sun headlines “Putin’s glamorous propaganda girls who front a new…
Originally posted on Tim Hayward:
The Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media has published a response to the recent attack on the group by Sir Alan Duncan. This page is open for comments on that response. (A copy of the response follows.) ? Response to Sir Alan Duncan’s attack on the Working Group on…
Originally posted on Dr Piers Robinson:
The recent Guardian article by Olivia Solon attacks those investigating and questioning the role of the White Helmets in Syria and attributes all such questioning to Russian propaganda, conspiracy theorizing and deliberate disinformation. The article does little, however, to address the legitimate questions which have been raised about the…
As tensions continue to rise between the West and Russia, increasing attention is being paid in Western media to what are frequently described as the ‘propaganda’ activities of Russia. Regarding the recent setting up of Sputnik News in Edinburgh,The Sun headlines “Putin’s glamorous propaganda girls who front a new UK-based news agency ‘that aims to […]
Read More Russian news may be biased – but so is much western mediaThe Chilcot Report has delivered severe criticisms of the way in which the British government took Britain to war in Iraq in 2003 and generated, at least for a sort time, widespread media criticism of Tony Blair as well as other officials. Chilcot made clear that war was not the last resort, that more […]
Read More What Have We Learned from Chilcot and Why it is Important for Scholars of International Relations? (February 2018)The recent Guardian article by Olivia Solon attacks those investigating and questioning the role of the White Helmets in Syria and attributes all such questioning to Russian propaganda, conspiracy theorizing and deliberate disinformation. The article does little, however, to address the legitimate questions which have been raised about the nature of the White Helmets and […]
Read More Searching for the Truth About Syria and the White Helmets (February 2018)The current ‘fake news’ crisis has brought to the forefront of debate questions regarding the manipulation of information and the role of deception as a political strategy. One strand of this debate has focused on the use of propaganda and deception by authoritarian and autocratic states outside the West. In particular, there has been substantial […]
Read More Propaganda Here and Now (Jan 2018)Threats to journalism and journalistic autonomy come in many forms. At the most extreme, journalists are directly threatened, intimidated and, all too frequently, harmed by political actors seeking to influence the ‘information environment’. As a form of coercion, aimed at controlling what journalists write and say, threats and attacks can be understood as a form […]
Read More Fake News, Propaganda and Threats to Journalism (Jan 2018)
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