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Media search in all UK national press, last 3 months, number of articles covering:

“Corbyn and antisemitism” – 1,450
“Johnson and Islamophobia” – 164

“Corbyn and IRA” – 272
“Johnson and Yemen and war crimes” – 2

We are being played.
Corporate media have deliberately stoked societal tensions through their false depiction of Corbyn as antisemitic which large numbers of people may now believe. They’ve been prepared to divide society to destroy Corbyn. It shows where their narrow elite/class interests lie.
Update for last 7 days, media search (using Factiva) in UK national press, number of articles covering:

"Corbyn and antisemitism" - 348
"Johnson and Islamophobia/Islamophobe" - 39

"Corbyn and IRA" - 112
"Johnson and war crimes and Yemen" - 0 (Nb. "Johnson and Yemen" - 4)
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Just to be clear, media campaign against Corbyn went far beyond anything against any previous Labour leader. It was surely the biggest propaganda campaign in UK history. Key to this is agenda-setting: shaping what people think *about* (and what they don’t). See thread.
Media search using Factiva: articles in UK national press (not broadcast) from Corbyn elected leader 12 Sept 2015 to 12 Dec 2019 election, mentioning:

“Corbyn and IRA” – 3,001
“Corbyn and antisemitism” - 12,700
“Corbyn and [exact phrase] ‘threat to national security’” - 233
It's difficult to compare exactly to media treatment of B.Johnson/Tories, but as an indicator over the same time period:

"Johnson and Islamophobia" - 666
"Conservative and Islamophobia" – 1,155
"Johnson and Yemen and war crimes" - 89
"Conservatives and Yemen and war crimes" - 23
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Extent of media propaganda against Corbyn. Factiva media search covering 45 days since election was called to today. Articles in UK national press (not broadcast):

"Corbyn and antisemitism" -1,247
'Johnson and Islamophobia' - 159

“Corbyn and IRA” – 253
“Johnson and Yemen” - 16
On “Corbyn and antisemitism”, around half the articles since election was called are in Times & Telegraph. They are followed by S*n, Guardian/Observer and Mail.

“Corbyn and IRA” campaign has been led by S*n, followed by Times and Telegraph
According to Factiva search, the Guardian has had 164 articles covering “Corbyn and antisemitism” since election was called – that is an average of 3.6 articles a day. This compares to 68 articles covering “Johnson and Islamophobia”.
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The Assange extradition raises 3 fundamental issues beyond freedom of the media which, IMO, every member of the public should be concerned about, if we want to secure democracies that defend the public interest against arbitrary state power. See next tweets.
1/In Assange extradition, Trump is asserting the US right to prosecute a *non-US* person, *not in the US*, under US laws. This is amazing. By the same argument, Russia or Saudi could prosecute a journalist (or blogger) in London, Washington or Canberra for revealing their crimes.
2/UK minister Alan Duncan called Assange a “miserable little worm”, judge called him “narcissistic” and he received a grossly disproportionate sentence on bail issue. Question: is Assange even going to receive a fair trial, does UK have indpt judiciary, does rule of law prevail?
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