For the Today programme, our boys in Basra are just doing good, building sewers and helping reconstruction. Media Workers Against the War takes another view.

Trevor Johnson investigates how British experiments in nuclear power generation in the 1950s were recklessly accelerated in order to develop nuclear weapons.

Medialens questions Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s Middle East Editor, on the BBC’s unequal coverage of Palestinian and Israeli deaths.

Nicholas Jones examines an EU initiative for news management which is already producing some agonised soul searching among Europe’s journalists.

The recent BBC White Season painted a bleak picture of the white working class in Britain today as bigoted and broken. Martin Smith argues that these stereotypes are encouraged by politicians and the media to divide us and are far from the experiences of working people’s real lives.

Stephen Lendman considers the BBC’s reporting on Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans, Hugo Chavez, Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe – and finds it wanting.

The Independent Working Class Association (IWCA) takes a look at the prejudices behind the BBC’s recent ‘White Season’.

Julie Hyland looks at the racist overtones of the BBC’s recent ‘White Season’ series.

The disproportionate coverage given to Israeli and Palestinian deaths, both in scale and in tone, demolishes media claims to impartiality and reveals them as cheerleaders for Western power, writes Media Lens.

Jim Zackey looks at the BBC’s wholly inadequate reporting of the war in Iraq.

As the latest Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip escalated, mainstream reporting again failed to provide the necessary context to the violence, writes Media Lens.

Joan Pedro asks David Edwards and David Cromwell, editors of the British media-watchdog Media Lens, about the consequences of the corporate structure of the mainstream media on the way issues such as climate change and the drive to war with Iran are reported.

The Morning Star looks at the difference in standards for ordinary civil service workers and the executives at the top. ‘Cuts’ are made to allow organisations like the BBC to bring in private consultants or to give the privileged even greater privileges.

Media Lens consider the BBC’s Gavin Esler’s latest litany of abuse against correspondents, the media’s pervasive hostility to rational challenge, and Esler’s own record says about the lack of independent thought in the mainstream media.