This is the executive summary of ‘A Tale of Two Englands – ‘Race’ and Violent Crime in the Press’, by the Runnymede Trust. The report analyses newspaper articles over a two month period, and identifies clear differential patterns in the way in which the press reports on violent crime.

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.

In a rare and unusually damning ruling, the Press Complaints Commission has censured the London Evening Standard for its “materially misleading” and “alarmist” coverage of the Camp for Climate Action at Heathrow.

Writer Ronan Bennett talks to Shaun Doherty about the lead up to the Iraq war, the ignorance of New Labour and being a political writer.

Life for children in Britain is incredibly difficult, writes Richard Seymour, caught as they are between increasing poverty and violent abuse on the one hand and relentless demonisation and authoritarian “clamp downs” on the other.

Media Workers Against the War looks at the myths behind the media fury that followed the Archbishop of Canterbury’s speech on sharia law.

Media Lens on the inherent instability of capitalism and the false promise of neoliberalism, tackling in particular the mythical capitalist “success stories” of China and India.

Media Lens on the inherent instability of capitalism and the false promise of neoliberalism.

Media Lens analyse how the mainstream media create threats that don’t exist to further the official agenda, noting that the media’s apparent concern for human rights in places like Darfur and Afghanistan is in fact driven by the demands of power.

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.

The BBC is making a real hash of the Al Gore story, as Andy Rowell reports.