Posted by: Carlos Hurworth on: August 15, 2009
With the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, and the welcoming of US troops into Iraq came scenes of liberation and freedom, which saw people burning effigies of the former tyrant, tearing down statues and defacing the giant portraits of Saddam on the city’s walls. They were scenes of jubilation, graphic in their depiction of a [...]
Posted by: Carlos Hurworth on: July 29, 2009
The media and in particular, the news media have a vast control over what we see, hear, think, learn and know of our world. They are massive, powerful conglomerates – an industry so lucrative that what started out as only a few small bodies and then expanded into an almost infinite amount, was then again [...]
