Comment

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Comments will normally be between 500 and 1500 words and show thought provoking and lively engagement with debates surrounding the themes of the journal. Comments should be written in a journalistic-creative style and should be submitted without a referencing system or bibliography. They are not meant to be mini-academic papers. They are an opportunity for individuals to express their subjective thoughts and feelings on matters of importance. Comments should be based on media practice and the political and social-cultural issues that arise from practice. They can be reflective pieces or a comment on current issues and themes.

We welcome original contributions and responses to existing comments from all members of the public. So if you feel that you have something important to say, then send your comment to us for consideration.

Submissions should be sent as attachments to: editorial@fifth-estate-online.co.uk

Publication is subject to the approval of the editors.

On line contributions

April 2008

• Suddenly the workers are heroes ... again! - Reg Lee
• Communications/excommunications: An interview with Armand Mattelart - Costas M. Constantinou (PDF)

March 2008

• The Cuban Question - David Berry
• On the Importance of Peace Journalism - Richard Keeble

February 2008

• The Trade off between thorough Deliberations and Thoughtless Dereliction - Jim Zackey
• The Canadian Media's Relentless Push for Privatised Medicine - James Winter
• Lying About Libertarians: The New Republic and Ron Paul - Philip Bounds

January 2008

• Political science masquerading as climate science: A critique of Bjørn Lomborg - James Winter
• Twenty Years at the Margins: The Herman-Chomsky Propaganda Model, 1988-2008 - Andy Mullen
• Iran - Jim Zackey

November 2007

• Press Freedom: The Case of Slovenia - Hanno Hardt

October 2007

• The General and the Pen Soldiers - Jim Zackey

September 2007

• Alternative News Model: Embedded Reporting for Poverty and HIV/AIDS - Eronini R. Megwa

August 2007

• The BBC's Coverage of Indian Partition: Pakistan and North Eastern India - David Berry and Sujata Dutta Hazarika

May 2007

• Twenty Years of Propaganda - a conference report by Andy Mullen
• Speaking to the Masses: Reflections on the Communist Party's Welsh Election broadcast - Philip Bounds
• John Theobald and the Media: An Interview with David Berry by UKWatch

April 2007

• The Great Iranian Public Relations Exercise - Reg Lee
• Beyond 2000: Remembering Raymond Williams - John Eldridge

March 2007

• An interview with the Iraqi Patriotic Alliance
• Come to the Lifehouse: Pete Townshend's Unfinished Utopia - Philip Bounds

February 2007

• The Philadelphia Inquirer Versus the New York Times - Edward S. Herman
• Some Reflections on The Battle of Chile - Joan Pedro

December 2006

• Media Silence Over 'Crimes Against Humanity' In Chad - Richard Keeble
• Canadian News Media Wannabe Americans: A Dishonourable Past and Dangerous Future - James Winter

November 2006

• Conversation: A return to communication - Hanno Hardt
• For Anna Politkovskaya - David Berry

September 2006

• Comment on the Perkins Review of Mediated - Thomas de Zengotita
• MOBILITY - Jim McGuigan

August 2006

• The UK Terror plot: what's really going on? - Craig Murray
• BBC Newsnight's reaction to the Israeli assault on Lebanon - David Berry
• Harold Innis and the Press - Robert E. Babe
• Notes on the Progress of the Counterrevolution in the USA - Edward S. Herman

July 2006

• The political and moral message of Sequestro Express - David Berry
• When Mainstream Journalists Glimpse the Radical Perspective - John Theobald
• US Willing to Talk, With Conditions, and the Media Bites Once Again - Edward S. Herman

June 2006

• The Fifth Estate Sports Page - World Cups, World Wars and the New Germany - John Theobald
• Reflections on Enid Blyton and other matters in The Sunday Telegraph - David Berry
• Time to Re-Think Press Freedom? - Julian Petley

May 2006

• The BBC and Medialens: a match made in heaven? - Michael Barker
• Politics and Sleaze - Sanda Miller
• A Comment on Hanno Hardt's Images on Slovenia Today - Sabina Mihelj

April 2006

• In search of an identity: African news media and the public need to know - Eronini R. Megwa
• George Orwell: journalist and proto-blogger - Richard Keeble
• 'Road to Guantanamo': The Art of the Political Message in Docudrama - Joan Pedro

March 2006

• Dear Mr Bush ... A message from an intellectual: Niall Ferguson care of the Sunday Telegraph - David Berry
• Apocalyptic Media: The Case of Bird Flu - Joost van Loon
• In praise of……The Guardian - John Eldridge
• Whose interests is the Guardian guarding? A response to John Eldridge - John Theobald

February 2006

• On Danish Cartoons - John Theobald
• Hypocrisy is the greatest luxury - David Berry
• Fourth Estate or Fifth Column - Julian Petley

January 2006

• The New York Times Versus the Civil Society: Protests, Tribunals, Labor, Militarisation and Wars - Edward S. Herman

December 2005

• G8 Protests in the mass media - Marianne McKiggan
• The U.S. Media and Latin American Revolutionary Activity - Reg Lee

November 2005

• 'Sans Papiers, Sans Culottes, or What? What are the Real Grievances in the French Suburbs?' - John Theobald
• Weapons of Civilian Destruction - Reg Lee
• Hurricane Katrina and the Riots in France: This is a Black Story! - Reg Lee

October 2005

• A special kind of independence - David Cromwell
• Iran: The Next Target for US Aggression? - Reg Lee
• Senator Coleman you've lost the plot - Reg Lee
• The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Public Interest Principle - David Berry
• Mainstream journalism and the war in Iraq: A lost cause - David Berry
• Journalism under capitalism - John E. Richardson