JOURNALISM,
CHURNALISM AND MEDIA BIAS
Ben Goldacre, Rich
Peppiatt, Michael Marshall, Greg Philo
How much journalism is churnalism
- the uncritical regurgitation of press releases? To what extent can we trust
what we read in the press about medical and other scientific discoveries and breakthroughs?
How impartial is mainstream media coverage of key political and economic issues?
And just how much of tabloid news is just, well, made up?
Saturday, 15th December 2012
Conway Hall
25 Red
Lion Square
London
WC1R 4RL
11am-5.15pm (10.30am registration)
£10 (£5 students concessions). Free entry for Friends of CFI UK.
Bookshop and signings.
Bookshop and signings.
Tickets on the door and from the BHA website here:http://www.humanism.org.uk/meet-up/events/view/196
Introduced by Stephen Law
Speakers include:Ben Goldacre (Guardian columnist, doctor and author of Bad Science)
Michael Marshall (expert on press-release-based churnalism)
Rich Peppiatt (a former tabloid journalist, now touring a show based on his experiences)
Greg Philo (Research Director of the Glagsow University Media Group). Greg will be speaking about the role of the media in the production of public confusion and consent.
10 comments:
Very cool. (But no dyed-in-the-wool, unapologetic tabloid journo to take part?)
Thought about it, but decided on balance better like this...
Would it be rude to ask whether Nick Davies was a consideration for this event? I for one had never heard of 'churnalism' before reading his 'Flat Earth News'. What a gem that was...
I don't entirely understand the world of British tabloids. In America, there have have been a few rare cases where a tabloid scooped the MSM on something, and everybody is like, "wait, the tabloids ran a story that wasn't made up? How did that happen?"
Nick wasn't available Adzcliff.
TUQ - not just talking about tabloids, of course.
Thanks Stephen!
This looks very interesting but I'm surprised there's no mention of Media Lens or any of the books written by the editors Davids Edwards and Cromwell like Guardians of Power, Newspeak in the 21st Century or the recent Why Are We The Good Guys? (by David Cromwell).
I think the diligent and essential work, of holding the corporate media to account, carried out for free by Media Lens and endorsed by the likes of Chomsky and Pilger should have made them top billing.
youtube.com/watch?v=wHs0vM3gRTA
you can thank RANDI
now for some SYMBOLIC TWO-DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS!
on the TIMELINE
0 min 33 sec - Randi in the RED SHIRT - signifying the *bl..dy deed* that is about to happen
1min 18 sec - Banachek talks about respect for the claimant and then they mock "these kind" of people in the final part
3 min 20 sec - the test of the power bracelet that increases a person's energy and balance. Notice our challenge is all about POWER & BALANCE, proving the existence of a HIGHER POWER
5 min 15 sec TEST BEGINS. Skeptics one by one stand in CRUCIFIXION POSE
1 hr 10 min 21 sec Test is ended in failure
1 hr 10 min 30 sec request is made to make change in the PROTOCOL
1 hr 10 min 51 sec Applause is made by all those who wanted him to fail from the very beginning
1 hr 25 min 39 sec Now they talk about the Nightline clip that was filmed in Manhattan, also the scene of the 9/11 event
1hr 28 min 42 sec - They talk about make-shift tests. They think that because no one can win the prize that psychic phenomena does not exist
1 hr 29 min 45 sec Banachek says "the majority of *these* people.'" A contemptuous reference that occurs repeatedly
1 hr 31 min 53 sec The reference to envelopes. Remember the 911 in Angel's envelope!
1 hr 37 min 11 sec Swiss says he is not worried about a paranormal event happening. Little does he know what is actually taking place
1 hr 39 min 50 sec The mocking of SPIRITS!
1 hr 40 min 27 sec Reference made to the TERROR of witnessing a supernatural event, i.e, the blood leaving the face
1 hr 41 min 15 sec Reference to "these people"
1 hr 41 min 40 sec Belief in the supernatural is claimed to be a psychological defence mechanism to cope with reality. Swiss talks about how desperate the psychics become when debunked. Little does he know what is happening to the skeptics!
1 hr 42 min 11 sec WHEN PROPHECY SUCCEEDS! KABOOM
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youtube.com/watch?v=gHbYJfwFgOU
which WORLD-VIEW will not exist, sh*thead?
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5000 whining atheists vs the Great Prophet
how the divine pen of Michel N. crushed the international atheist movement
skeps.org/5000-whining-atheists-vs-the-great-prophet-t644.html
youtube.com/watch?v=s3lwG4MytSI
one applicant right here...
get the POINT, Randi....
for lies on top of lies
youtube.com/watch?v=bbmXpNEFipE
do you think you can threaten my right to FREE SPEECH?
what if I told you that I am not who you think I am….
Not Dennis Markuze - but a FAN!
youtube.com/watch?v=nvatDdOWcLw&lc
you're not the center of the universe!
youtube.com/watch?v=3yRpSNIOwA4
a dishonest liar
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youtube.com/watch?v=ruQFh_TkPto
WHINE WHINE WHINE
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BRING IT ON!
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very cool
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