Patrick Lawrence: “The Narrative Is Coming Apart”
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost “In total, more than a thousand square kilometers of the territory of Ukraine have been liberated since the beginning of September,” Volodymyr Zelensky…
The Chris Hedges Report: Ukraine and the Crisis of Media Censorship
Throughout the Ukraine war, Western news outlets have mindlessly parroted the opinions of a ruling elite and overseen a public discourse that is often unhinged from the real world.
Factchecking the Factchecker on Chomsky, Russia and Media Access
Millions of people in the Soviet Union, including virtually all intellectuals, had access to and tuned into Western media in the 1970s.
Patrick Lawrence: When Correspondents Came Home, Part 2
September 11 was a paradigm shifting moment in American journalism.
Deliberate Misrepresentation: Western Media Bias Makes Israeli War on Palestinians Possible
On August 16, the Israeli military finally admitted that it was behind the strikes that killed the 5 young Palestinian boys of Jabaliya. Whether the NYT reported on that or…
Patrick Lawrence: When Correspondents Came Home, Part 1
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost This is the first of a two-part series examining the collapse of foreign coverage in mainstream media. I have never gotten over a…
How One Spook-Run London College Department is Training the World’s Social Media Managers
By Alan MacLeod / MintPress News Staffed by NATO military officers and former government ministers and notorious for training the West’s top spies, the Department of War Studies at King’s…
The Instinctive Distrust of Big Media
Anyone in journalism who wants to regain that trust would do well to read American Dispatches and internalize the lessons that Robert Parry offers, writes Nat Parry.
Patrick Lawrence: A Hall of Mirrors
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost I have long wondered whether our mainstream journalists, correspondents and commentators get dressed each morning in the same locker room, so similarly do…
Why Is There More Media Talk About Using Nuclear Weapons Than About Banning Them?
By Karl Grossman / FAIR It’s of critical importance—indeed, existential importance—to the world: the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. And a coalition of peace organizations in the United…
To the New York Times – “We Thought We Knew Ye”
"This paper is pointing toward a journalistic monoculture, keeping out of its pages knowledgeable, experienced writers on many important, ignored subjects and positions."
Patrick Lawrence: Language and Its Enemies
Media critic Patrick Lawrence lays out how the aftermath and potential consequences of Pelosi’s Taiwan visit are made obscure by certain media outlets.
Government Supervised Times, Wartime Reporting, and More
We talk to Patrick Lawrence about Ukraine by diving deeper into his recent articles written for ScheerPost.
Patrick Lawrence: The Causes of Things
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Casus belli Over a summer sup on the back lawn the other night, a Times-reading, MSNBC–watching, NPR–listening neighbor asked what I thought she…
Patrick Lawrence: 21st Century Order
As a piece of the new world order that is under construction, Putin’s trip to Tehran last week was of singular importance.