The Guardian's view on the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) has been described as "bewildering and misinformed". Critics of the piece include women who've written for the paper. But there's something we can all do to show solidarity with trans people. The government consultation on the GRA is running until this Friday, and we should all...
Labour MP Chris Williamson has taken the Guardian apart for pretending to be left-wing.
Wolf in sheep's clothing
In a column for the Morning Star, Williamson pointed out that the mainstream media is so pro-establishment that the Guardian can appear progressive:
The narrowing of acceptable opinions in the mainstream media has...
In June 2018, the Guardian announced it was part of a new initiative called the Ozone Project. It joined forces with rivals News UK, which owns the Times, the Sun, and the Telegraph to create a "one-stop shop" for online advertising. Reach - which owns the Mirror and the Express - is now also part of the group. It marks a...
The allegedly left-leaning Observer (the Sunday version of the allegedly left-leaning Guardian) published an opinion piece by Theresa May on Saturday 6 October. Why it gave the PM a free ride to write what she wanted is unclear. But the chair of the Labour Party has made a stinging attack on her. Meanwhile, social media showed its anger...
In an exclusive interview with The Canary, Wyatt Reed says he and Guardian freelancer Carl David Goette-Luciak were assisting anti-Sandinista opposition groups in Nicaragua, and that there was “a straightforward conflict of interest involved in what we were doing”.
Western support for regime-change journalism
On 1 October,...
As The Canary previously reported, damning analysis from the Media Reform Coalition (MRC) revealed that mainstream media coverage of antisemitism in the Labour Party was ‘misleading’, ‘distorted’ and ‘inaccurate’. Since then, Noam Chomsky, Ken Loach and 25 leading academics have signed a letter in support of the MRC's...
Award-winning journalist Max Blumenthal has been following the current situation in Nicaragua closely. And in this investigation, he looks in detail at the activities of a novice foreign reporter in the country who appears to have links to the US regime-change machine. He calls the Guardian's cooperation with this reporter a source...
New research from the Media Reform Coalition (MRC) reveals that media coverage of antisemitism in the Labour Party was 'misleading', 'distorted' and 'inaccurate'. It's a damning report; the MRC says "we identified myriad inaccuracies and distortions in online and television...
On 16 September, FiveFilters - which "promotes non-corporate, independent media" - published a run down. It included more than 100 times the Guardian had linked Jeremy Corbyn to antisemitism. The earliest piece included went out on 26 September 2017. The 107th and latest article was put out on 9 September 2018. The collection,...
The Guardian reported on 10 September that Labour is now viewed as “the party of quinoa and student protests”. But people on social media weren’t having any of it.
From pie to quinoa
Research by consultancy firm Britain Thinks surveyed voters in two marginal constituencies, Crewe and Thurrock, to understand what drives voter...
