The mainstream media is encouraging a pervasive pessimism even on the most conservative targets for greenhouse gas emissions – but there is another way, writes Tim Holmes.

Tim Holmes asks if today’s media fulfil their role as a ‘fourth estate’ or whether they have instead become a tool for the ‘manufacture of consent’

In What’s Left, argues Tim Holmes, Nick Cohen seeks to defend his own support for the Iraq war, whitewash the motives of its prosecutors, and paint its opponents in the blackest terms possible. He relies throughout on baseless propaganda, extreme generalisations and straightforward falsehoods.

Industry’s deadly spin on climate change.