Jeremy Corbyn's 10th time as Islington North elected MP declaration speech in full

I am posting this to help highlight the human decency of the man.

Due to the competitive nature of election campaigning, policy emphases and tribal allegiances, such matters tend to distract from what we have in common.

Enough said by me at present on this matter.

Alan Wheatley

From Islington Tribune newspaper

Read Jeremy Corbyn’s declaration speech in full

Source:  http://camdennewjournal.com/article/jeremy-corbyns-declaration-speech-in-full

Labour leader of four years announces plans to step down

13 December, 2019

Jeremy Corbyn arriving at the count. Photo: Islington Tribune

(Islington Tribune is the sibling paper of Camden New Journal.)

ISLINGTON North MP’s full speech after announcement he had retained his seat.

Could I start by saying a huge thank you to the returning officer and all the staff and the police that have ensured a fair and democratic election has taken place today.

And also to congratulate and thank my fellow candidates for their participation in this election. And also a very heartfelt thanks to the people of Islington North for electing me again for the 10th time to represent Islington North in Parliament.

I’m very, very proud to do so and I’ve learned so much from the people of Islington North and it’s my pride and my pleasure to continue to be their representative in Parliament.

I also want to thanks Ruth Hayes our agent for this election, and all of the wonderful friends, comrades and supporters in Islington North Labour Party for the huge effort they put in in this election campaign and they put in all the time to carry a message of hope and justice, all over our constituency and through me, I hope to a wider world.

The pressure on those surrounding politicians is often very, very high indeed. The media intrusion on people’s lives is very high indeed. And the attacks that take place against family and loved ones of politicians continue and they are disgraceful and frankly, they are disgusting.

I want to take this opportunity to thank my family, my close friends, and those that have been close by and been very supportive during this and every other election campaign. I want to thank my three sons for the huge support they give me and I thank my wife, Laura Alvarez for all which she puts up with because of the way in which the media behave towards me, towards her and indeed, towards my party during this election campaign.

This is obviously a very disappointing night for the Labour Party with the results that we’ve got. But I want to say this, in the election campaign, we put forward a manifesto of hope, a manifesto of unity and a manifesto that would help to right the wrongs and the injustices and inequalities that exists in this country. For those who need housing, those who need an effective health service that will deliver for them. And those children that need a school that is properly funded, and they’re not being taught in oversized classes. And a manifesto that gave hope in dealing with the environmental crisis the world faces, by investing for the future through a green industrial revolution.

All of those policies were extremely popular during the election campaign and remain policies that have huge popular support all across this country. However, Brexit has so polarised and divided debate in this country, it is overridden so much of a normal political debate. And I recognise that has contributed to the result that the Labour Party has received this evening all across this country. The issues of social justice and the issues of needs of people will not go away. Just because Brexit is dealt with in the way in which Boris Johnson presumably plans to deal with at the moment, all those issues will come back centre stage in the debate.

And the fundamental Labour message about justice and equality within our society is going to be one that is there for all time because it’s the very core of what my party believes in and what I will always advocate on behalf of my constituency, and on behalf of my party.

I want to also make it clear that I will not lead the party in any future general election campaign. I will discuss with our party to ensure there is a process now of reflection on this result. And on the policies that the party will take going forward. And I will lead the party during that period to ensure that discussion takes place and we move on into the future.

I’m very proud of the trust that our half million members put in me to lead this party. And I’m very proud of the way that we fought this election campaign. We did not descend into the gutter, we did not undertake personal abuse, we undertook the task of getting a message of hope and justice to every part of this country.

And I’m very grateful to the Labour Party in Islington North for being very tolerant to the fact that I didn’t spend as much time in this election campaign in Islington as obviously I would want to do because I’ve been traveling around the whole country to ensure that Labour message is put there.

But I want to say this, I will remain the MP for Islington North and I’m proud to represent the people of Islington North, and I’m proud in Parliament and outside, that we will forever continue the cause for socialism for social justice, and for a society based on the needs of all rather than the greed of a few.

That is what makes our party what it is. And I’m very proud of the achievements of our party and the development of its manifesto and its ideas.

And I tell you what, those ideas and those principles are eternal, and they will be there for all time. I thank the people of Islington North once again, for putting their faith and trust in me. I will work as I always have to represent and defend the people of my constituency, because they’re very special and I owe them so much and they have all taught me so much. Thank you very much.

Responsible journalism on the wane

"It's not just Boris Johnson's lying. It's that the media let him get away with it,"
writes Peter Oborne in The Guardian

Peter Oborne writes in The Guardian, "The Prime Minister's falsehoods are mostly left unchallenged. If this goes on, the integrity of our politics faces collapse," substantiating that statement with:

It’s Friday lunchtime and Boris Johnson is in Oldham. He’s live on Sky News, speaking to supporters in front of his Tory battle bus. During a speech lasting no more than 10 minutes, viewers learn that he is building 40 new hospitals. Sounds good. But it’s a lie that has already been exposed by fact-checkers, including the website Full Fact.

The prime minister tells Sky viewers that “20,000 more police are operating on our streets to fight crime and bring crime down”. This assertion is misleading in a number of ways. Recruitment will take place over three years and do no more than replace the drop in officer numbers seen since the Conservatives came to power in 2010.

Sky viewers are then informed by Johnson that Jeremy Corbyn “plans to wreck the economy with a £1.2 trillion spending plan”. Labour’s manifesto hasn’t been published, let alone fully costed. Johnson’s £1.2tn is a palpable fabrication. As Full Fact concluded: “Many of the figures behind this estimate are uncertain or based on flawed assumptions.”

 Sadly, I note, The Guardian itself has assisted in false reporting leading to the demonisation of Jeremy Corbyn as 'antisemitic' when what he is 'anti' is Zionism, the human rights abuses of the state of Israel.

The National Union of Journalism's ethics or 'Code of Conduct' can be found at https://www.nuj.org.uk/about/nuj-code/

I would argue, however, that the increased polarisation of UK politics ties in with the unfairness of the First Past the Post electoral system that Jeremy Corbyn seems to collude with as he enters a mere two-party televised 'leaders debate' tonight that excludes other parties such as the Green Party of which I am a member.

Every political party, I would argue, is a coalition, and Corbyn's problem is not that he is "a bad leader" but that the Parliamentary Labour Party is an unsuitable crew for him to be leader of. By way of just one example, I cite the fact that Labour under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown as prime ministers helped lay the foundations for the corporate homicide system of 'welfare reform' that the Tories have built upon. See, eg, https://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/topic/223854-even-harsher-new-esa-medical-approvedwarning-very-bad-news-inc/ from April 13, 2010 — before the Tory/Lib Dem coalition government!

And if we had a more equal voting system, and fairer funding of political parties, more disadvantaged people would feel they had something to vote for, I believe.

Thoughts stemming from an article on the smearing of Jeremy Corbyn's reputation

A family member has sent me this link that I believe worth 'flagging up' here: https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/think-corbyn-is-a-danger-to-britain-heres-how-youve-been-brainwashed/12/12/


My choice of 'pull quote' from that article can be applied not just to a The London Economic blog post that related and cited posting that "around £2 million public money was funnelled to a charity in Scotland which posted disparaging stories against Jeremy Corbyn and other Labour figures."

"It should be extremely disturbing to everyone that a ruling Government is using Public funds and official resources for party political purposes. This is the sort of thing we’re told happens in rogue states and banana republics, not here in Great Blighty."

For Private Eye magazine 20 September-3 October issue reported that the Government was spending £20,000 on 'Get Ready for Brexit' Facebook adverts, and I pointed out that the televised adverts with Government insignia must surely be more costly.
https://newsforwardsfromalanwheatley.blogspot.com/2019/09/uk-government-getting-public-ready-for-brexit-and-more.html

And what about the wasted money on a Brexit coin that was minted only to be melted down
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/29/brexit-meltdown-50p-coins-with-31-october-date-to-be-recycled

See also https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/government-adverts-on-facebook-1-6354789

Yes, I do think that Jeremy Corbyn's reputation has been severely smeared through the unfair dominance of government advertising budgets and -- as the
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/think-corbyn-is-a-danger-to-britain-heres-how-youve-been-brainwashed/12/12/
posting points out -- foreign billionaire ownership of dominant UK news media outlets. I believe that should be 'flagged up' and also point out that such foreign ownership of UK news media is a prime example of 'the plunder of the commons' that Prof. Guy Standing draws attention to.
http://camdennewjournal.com/article/attacks-on-jeremy-corbyn-from-his-fellow-party-members-amaze-me?sp=1&sq=bruce%2520kent%2520jeremy%2520corbyn

As a retired disabled jobseeker, I know what it's like to have one's reputation smeared by those with privatisation agendas, and that has led me into blogging and my previous co-authorship of the Green Party of England & Wales response to Labour's 2008 'welfare reform' Green Paper [consultation document] 'No-one written off'. That Green Party of England & Wales document was sat upon by major UK news outlets to which it was sent, but can still be found online via

D – The Green Party is opposed to the use of private for-profit ...

https://www.greenparty.org.uk › reports › GPEW_writing_off_workfare_final

19 Oct 2008 - Writing off workfare: ... Green Party of England and Wales[1] ..... (see Jonathan Rutherford, http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/soundings/ ..... [4] The online title of the same article on the Community Care magazine website is ...

 
I also take this opportunity to flag up an article from the pro-Remain news source The New European that focuses on Dominic Cummings as 'adviser' to Prime Minister Boris Johnson:
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/brexit-strategy-dominic-cummings-ooda-loop-1-6339099

That The New European publication is generally negative about Jeremy Corbyn, as might be expected by the intertwining of the right wing of the Labour Party with pro-EU issues.
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/home/search?q=%22jeremy+corbyn%22+%22alastair+campbell%22&submitted=true&searchSlot=true&submit=true&resultsSearch=&fromDate=&toDate=&resultsSearch=&sort=relevance&fromDate=&filterFromDate=&toDate=&filterToDate=

Bruce Kent has written against the smearing of Jeremy Corbyn at
http://camdennewjournal.com/article/attacks-on-jeremy-corbyn-from-his-fellow-party-members-amaze-me

But I would add that while I do believe that Jeremy Corbyn is a very decent and much-maligned person, his apparent subservience to a witch hunt of anti-Zionists in the Labour Party is worth examining, as Tony Greenstein points out
https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2019/11/corbyn-can-win-but-it-is-unlikely.html
I would, however, distance myself from Tony Greenstein's own way of applying derogatory labelling of people.

If questions relating to Britain's colonial past should have been discussed during Brexit debate, what about current actions of Israeli Government?

I read an article in last week's Big Issue magazine print edition, https://www.bigissue.com/latest/susan-neiman-the-brexit-lessons-we-can-learn-from-postwar-germany/
that I initially warmed to but ended up feeling potentially misled by.

Susan Neiman: the Brexit lessons we can learn from postwar Germany

There will be life after Brexit, probably. But like Germany in 1945 we face a day of reckoning before fixing our fractured country. Author and adopted Berliner Susan Neiman looks to the future,

the article led, but ended up with an apparent slagging off of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader on account of what I regard as hearsay evidence from someone who does not seem to have as intimate a grasp of  what life is like in his constituency as I have. (My former residence bordered onto Jeremy Corbyn's Islington North constituency, and I had print copy and online access to the local freebie newspaper of that constituency; and that Islington Tribune was/is the sibling of my local freebie, the Camden New Journal.)

A German nation's "dark history" and the current sins of the State of Israel

The Big Issue interview article includes:

An American Jew who grew up in the South during the Civil Rights movement, Neiman has spent most of her adult life in Berlin, where she gained a close-up view of a society grappling with its own dark history.

“By accepting that they were the perpetrators of the war and not the victims, they were able to reach a consensus and restore some national pride,” she says.

The process is called ‘working off the past’, or, as the Germans put it, ‘vergangenheitsbewältigung’. Yes, it’s a silly and excessively long word. But might we Brits be able to learn something from it?

The Big Issue: You say we should have debated the sins of colonialism in the Brexit debate. What good would that have done anyone?

Susan Neiman: Conservatives will always say there is nothing to be gained in opening up old wounds – that you just destroy national pride and cause divisions. What I think Germany shows is that a country can go through that process and come out the better for it....

In 1985 president Richard von Weizsäcke made a speech in which he described May 8 1945 as a day of liberation. That might seem an obvious statement to the rest of us but, until then, Germans had described it as a day of capitulation.....

and pull-quote:

"There is a real aversion to discussing the sins of the British Empire,

but ends up with an attack on Jeremy Corbyn, framing him as leader of an antisemitic political party:

You describe yourself as a social democrat. You are also Jewish. What do you make of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party?

I was delighted when he was first elected because I heard him described as Britain’s Bernie Sanders. I began by dismissing the accounts of anti-Semitism as the right trying to smear their enemies. But I read more and more about it and became more concerned because I have met many British anti-Semites that you don’t tend to find too much in Germany any more. And they dress it up as anti-Zionism.

Well I am as opposed to Netanyahu’s policies as much as anyone but to use that struggle as a vehicle for covert anti-Semitism images – or not even very covert – and not being able to distinguish between Jews and the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu is very pernicious. An awful lot of Jews left the Labour Party with tears. Labour is naturally a home for Jewish people – Jews proportionally skew left more than any other religion. Corbyn seems to have been pig-headed about the whole issue. 

Do you regard him as an anti-Semite?

I don’t think he is an anti-Semite. I think he might be a Little Englander who has a problem with cosmopolitanism. The problem is when you’re a politician what counts is not the contents of your soul but what you do in public. [End of article — i.e., 'the last word'.]

I would argue that Neiman's statement that she opposes "Netanyahu's policies as much as anyone" lacks substance; it avoids actual spelling out of what Israeli Government is doing under Netanyahu's leadership. It also avoids the fact that anti-Zionist Jews such as Tony Greenstein are pilloried by those Jews who would find it too painful to attack or even have mentioned the immediately current sins of the State of Israel. They call Tony Greenstein and other anti-Zionist Jews, "self-hating Jews."

Tony Greenstein has been fearlessly flagging up the sins of the Israeli state for quite a few years now, as a search link of his website reveals.

https://azvsas.blogspot.com/search?q=self-hating+jews

In July 2010 he blogged of The Day an American Jewish Art Student Lost an Eye:

Like most diaspora Jews, Emily Henochowicz, was brought up to believe that Arabs are intent on injuring or killing any Jew they come across and likewise that Israel was a place of refuge for all Jews against oppression. They didn’t tell her that Jews who mix with Arabs are termed ‘Arab lover’ (just as civil rights protesters in the USA were called n***** lovers). ...

And you get the measure of the Zionist sickness, because it is a sickness, that one of these anonymous contributors to a discussion list wished she had lost her other eye too. I also have some sick Zios who write wishing that I'd died or my family had in Auschwitz, all the while professing a belief in 'the Jewish people.'

Emily lost an eye at the Qualandiya check point when an Israeli border guard fired a tear gas cannister straight at her. As is normal with the Israeli army an ‘inquiry’ has cleared the army of any wrong doing. No doubt if the pressure becomes too great then Israel will hold a new inquiry, depending on whether the United States is concerned enough over the maiming of its citizen to protest. Certainly the ‘Jewish’ state is unconcerned.

 Source: https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2010/07/day-american-jewish-art-student-emily.html

The major confusion and connection between matters of how 'antisemitism' and anti-Zionism have been conflated by the Israeli State and its supporters has been in what has been labelled the 'International Holocaust Remembrance Association' (IHRA) definition of antisemitism that lobbyists have had adopted by local authorities and political parties.
https://azvsas.blogspot.com/search?q=ihra

Closing this blog post on a positive note about Jeremy Corbyn

I close with an extract from a Camden New Journal-published letter from March 2019:

Attacks on Jeremy Corbyn from his fellow party members amaze me

21 March, 2019

• THE attacks on Jeremy Corbyn, made by some members of his own party, continue to amaze me. The latest comes from Cllr Richard Olszewski, (Leading Labour councillor tells Jeremy Corbyn to resign, March 14).
I am no longer a member of the Labour Party but I have known Jeremy for many years as an MP. Our church, of which he is not a member, is in his constituency.
On numerous occasions he could not have been more personally helpful in dealing with asylum seekers, the homeless and those with other pressing problems. I have never known him to go in for unkind comment about any section of our national community.
No doubt he is not perfect – who is – but the Labour Party ought to be glad that it has now, at its head, someone of obvious integrity and single-minded concern for the whole of our community. Young people can see these qualities, which is why so many of them are attracted to his sort of Labour Party.

BRUCE KENT

N4

Blog post by Alan Wheatley, a member of Green Party of England & Wales.

I take the view that an attack on anti-Zionists of other political parties shrouded in terms of 'antisemitism' is really an attack on all anti-Zionists and freedom of speech. Having quoted Tony Greenstein, I should also add though, that he has been hugely disappointed at Labour Party Corbyn/McDonnell leadership response to 'fake antitsemitism' smears.

My focus in this blog post has been to flag up an instance of how unexamined 'facts' lead to such portrayals as 'Corbyn is antisemitic'. Of course, how Corbyn and McDonnell handle such attacks is a further development that may have a lot to do with the panic that may ensue from the dominance and pro-Zionism of the right wing news media and even the kind of organisation that is nominally a 'charity'.
https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2017/03/campaign-against-antisemitism-is.html

See also https://www.facebook.com/ShahrarAliGreenParty/posts/1327179840786844 

Camden New Journal reader's letter: How independent traders could be given assistance

I saw the below published at the website of my former locale's main freebie weekly newspaper, and commend it to my readership.

Alan Wheatley

How independent traders could be given assistance

Closed down Monica clothes shop, South End Green, Hampstead, where Pret is planning to move in
Photo: Camden New Journal

• WE value independent traders for the greater variety offered to customers, for the wider range of jobs undertaken locally, for the typically shorter supply routes, for recirculating a greater proportion of their income locally, for not being so involved in tax-avoidance havens and, local studies found in Archway and in Highgate, often for lower prices, (Family businesses fear for future as Pret A Manger makes move on Hampstead, September 5).

Around Archway an independent trader in Junction Road was found to be the cheapest and a supermarket at the Nag’s Head the most expensive.

The MP Jeremy Corbyn, having expressed hope that such traders could be relieved of some business rate burdens, took up a suggestion of the Better Archway Forum in 2013 that this could be done by extending the scope of small business rate relief which would assist 11 rather than only three of the 15 traders in the N19 5QT part of Junction Road alone.

A significant part of the threat to our high streets lies in the fact that while internet suppliers pay low levels of rents and rates for remote warehouses, shopkeepers face the spike as in the case you report. In that case the planning permission, or prior approval, will also be needed for the change of use to restaurant if any sales are to be consumed on the premises.

ADRIAN BETHAM
North Road, N6

Comparison of 'news stories' highlights importance of readers asking questions in what is called 'Information Literacy' and 'Critical Thinking'

I apologise for presenting a sketchy blog post here as I am a slower operative with a lot to do away from blogging, while I hope the below gives readers 'food for thought'.

Exhibit A

On Friday 6 September 2019, Yahoo! News saw fit to publish a 'news' story headed:

Voters fear Jeremy Corbyn in Number 10 more than a no-deal Brexit, poll shows

David Harding

Contributor

Yahoo News UK
6 September 2019

Britons are more worried about Jeremy Corbyn in Number 10 than a no-deal Brexit, according to a new opinion poll.

Almost half of all voters would rather Britain left the European Union without an agreement rather than see the Labour leader in Downing Street, the poll from Politico claims.

The poll found that 43% of voters would favour the UK crashing out of the EU while just 35 per cent would prefer Corbyn as Prime Minister.

A further 22% did not want either, seeing them as equally bad options....

More at https://uk.news.yahoo.com/voters-fear-jeremy-corbyn-in-number-10-more-than-a-nodeal-brexit-poll-shows-092001395.html

As surely as some 'think tanks' are very far from transparent about who funds them, it occurred to me on reading that story that the potential vested interests of the pollsters concerned were not declared, like who commissioned them? One of my contacts suggested the poll's author might be Dominic Cummings, Special Adviser for the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Neither does that report declare how many people were polled in this instance, though the report states:

"Almost half of all voters would rather Britain left the European Union without an agreement rather than see the Labour leader in Downing Street, the poll from Politico claims."

Talking of numbers, New Statesman pointed out in July 2019 that just 0.13 per cent of the UK population voted for Boris Johnson to be its Prime Minister — "a group of people roughly the size of a decent football crowd."  That fact alone renders the legitimacy of his authority as Prime Minister highly suspect, even before his unilateral 'coup' to shut down or 'prorogue' Parliament.

Eleanor MacLean (1981) Between the Lines: How to Detect Bias and Distortion in the News and Everyday Life presents a 'Checklist for Careful Thinking' that I highly commend. The 'Checklist for Careful Thinking consists of six categories:

1. What is a source?
2. What is the basic message?
3. What is presented in support of the point of view?
4. How is the message conveyed?
5. Who stands to gain?
6. Conclusion

In this era of online pollsters and especially with such a tiny proportion of a national population, more and more use is made of 'opinion polls' in order to lull the electorate into a stupor, as can be deduced from this instance, and it would be pretty obvious that such a story would or could be engineered to further the image of Jeremy Corbyn as the worst of the options available.

None of the poll questions outlined in the report attempts to gauge how much or how little the sample population knows or might know regarding concerns they might have about the potential harm that a 'no-deal Brexit' could open the UK to. My suspicion has long been that with the likes of Boris Johnson and Michael Gove in charge, their 'end game' is destruction of the welfare state.
"Boris Johnson" "Michael Gove" "welfare state" brexit

One of my other sources replied, to the idea that Dominic Cummings might have been the poll's author: "Dominic Cummings once manipulated an issue with a poll that gave his side 60%. The poll consisted of 10 people!"

And as one demonstrator against Boris Johnson's coup spelled out recently, "More people applied to Love Island than voted for Boris Johnson" to be UK Prime Minister.

Placard: More people applied to Love Island than voted for Boris Johnson"Photo: Martin Francis of Wembley Matters blog

Exhibit B

By contrast, the previous day John Pring of Disability News Service reported:

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson said that it felt as though
the impact of a no-deal Brexit on disabled people had
"been forgotten and will be ignored"

Trio of disabled peers pledge to fight off no-deal Brexit ‘time bomb’

By John Pring on 5th September 2019 Category: Politics

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Three disabled peers have pledged to do all they can to avert the significant impact on disabled people of a no-deal Brexit, with one warning of a “time bomb” that is now likely to “detonate”.

They spoke out this week as MPs and peers returned from their summer recess, facing the threat of the UK being forced to leave the European Union (EU) without an agreement at the end of next month.

The disabled crossbench peer Baroness [Tanni] Grey-Thompson told Disability News Service (DNS) last night (Wednesday) from the House of Lords that a no-deal Brexit would be “disastrous” for disabled people.

She said: “I will do everything I can to avoid it.”

She said she was “completely against a no-deal Brexit” but was unclear about what action she would take.

She said: “The action I’m likely to take is more likely to be in the chamber rather than outside and I’m just trying to get through each vote and plan around that....
More at https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/trio-of-disabled-peers-pledge-to-fight-off-no-deal-brexit-time-bomb/

As a now blessed by state pension as quasi-'Unconditional Basic Income' retired jobseeker, I, like many disabled people have learned to question and be suspicious of those peddling 'no deal Brexit' and other such forms of 'disaster capitalism' that would accelerate the corporate demolition of the welfare state and make the UK politically more like the United States in plutocracy terms.

Their objections to the prospect of 'no-deal Brexit' are based on disabled people's collective experience of social transformations based on bias and distortion.

Part of my sense of mission in promoting this blog is to help make Disability News Service and its revelations better known to my readership.

Further reading on 'Critical Thinking' and 'Information Literacy'

"Critical Thinking"

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=%22critical+thinking%22

"Information Literacy"

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&sxsrf=ACYBGNSnvf3876ZV8dP_IMXxTyyISFiySQ%3A1568134849442&ei=wdZ3XabXGreW1fAP5OWG6A0&q=%22information+literacy%22&oq=%22information+literacy%22&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0l10.287526.299112..300639...1.2..0.306.4172.0j15j5j1......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i71j0i67j0i131j0i7i30.K-OARN7flnA&ved=0ahUKEwjmu6TF3cbkAhU3SxUIHeSyAd0Q4dUDCAs&uact=5


A principal finding from my previous study of information literacy informs me that a good Table of Contents can help illumine the reader's mind without having read a book from cover to cover. The Table of Contents for Eleanor MacLean (1981) Between the Lines: How to Detect Bias and Distortion in the News and Everyday Life is an excellent case in point:

Between the Lines
How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life

MacLean, Eleanor

Publisher:  Deveric, Halifax, Canada
Year Published:  1981  
Pages:  296pp   ISBN:  0-9690919-0-7
Library of Congress Number:  P91.M23   Dewey:  302.2'4
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX8412

An exploration of medthods of "dec-doing" our daily newspapers and radio/TV news. Examines our predominant sources of information (mass media) and indicates the existence of many alternative sources of informaiton.

Abstract: 

Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. What gave you that idea?
Introduction
Forming opinions
Thinking clearly
The mass media of communication
Further reading
2. Getting the message
Introduction
Determining the overall message
Bias and propaganda techniques
De-coding some messages
News and current events
Mass culture
Impact of propaganda and advertising
Further reading
3. This message was brought to you by . . .
Introduction
1. Where the news comes from
2. Ownership and control
3. How do present trends affect the media's message?
4. Where does government fit in?
5. The global village
6. Isn't there any good news
Further reading
4. Propaganda, bias and point of view
Introduction
The first casualty
The Bloody Road to Zimbabwe
Textual analysis of The Bloody Road to Zimbabwe
The other side of the story
Further reading
5. "Underdevelopment": Case studies
Introduction
Case Study #1: Brazil
Case Study #2: The Atlantic Provinces
Conclusions: Where is the "Third World"?
Further reading
6. Do not adjust . . .
Communication and modern world problems
1. The analysis
Postscript: the experience
2. Resources
Subscriptions/ newsletters
Information centres/ sources
Of interest to educators
Appendices
For Chapter 1:
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
For Chapter 3:
Atlantic Canada media ownership
Maclean-Hunter
Thomson newspaper chain
Southam
Torstar
A missing section on the elite
For Chapter 4:
Last of the few
Notes
List of tables
Index

Source: https://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/CX8412.htm