I think what you are doing is very impressive, first of all congratulations! Reports or analyses in  http://pressaction.wordpress.com/, uncovering the state's lies are really important. we should continue to demystify their lies and manipulations.

yes, definitely "Politicians capitalise on this scaremongering and newspapers sell it", media is like a loud-speaker of the ruling power. it is not the power itself, but is it is more a mite that sticks the ruling power and becomes its voice, so i think we need to uncover, expose and publicize all kinds of dirty relationships between the media-patrons and those in power.

Speaking as a non-british, actually a non-European, I think we also need to try to make the newspaper correspondents and more investigative journalists join to our ranks. We need to publicize the media-censorship that these people in the lower echelons of the media industry are exposed to. We need to give voice to the stories of those journalists whose news can not find a place even in so-called objective, mainstream media like guardian or BBC. having an imperial past, I imagine that the biggest censor is on the wars outside the country (iraq, afghanistan, palestine etc.) that UK is a part of. I imagine that the Irish conflict and the IRA struggle formed one of the events that the state&government had intervened the media to legitimize its war against IRA. as your text also mentions media has been a handy tool in the hands of the states to create consent starting from the beginning of the century.We may publicize the marginalization unjustness against the correspondents, journalists due to their oppositionary voice.

but then comes the action, the most controversial part especially in europe where the majority of the white europeans are in a kind of welfare apathy. how are we going to unmake the state-sponsored images of immigrants and spread our truth to the public? There is of course more mainstream yet still important ways, such as referring to PCC and NUJ and asking them to revise their policies or working together with progressive and independent NGOs are some ways to publicize the lies and the manipulation of the state(led) media. having our own popular and non-sectarian media is another way, though it has always been difficult task since we do not have their resources. This kind of “days of action” is also important.

But I think we need to engage with and have a say about the daily life of the people to which the state/media appeals and tries to dominate. More concretely, we need to look for ways in order to counter the anti-immigrant/racist state discourse let’s say at white neighbourhoods, both working class or lower middle class. For example putting up big posters on the walls while refraining from big, abstract and memorized jargons, such as capitalism underlies the immigration problem, but using more creative slogans that directly touch the everyday realities of the inhabitants of that neighbourhood might be a way. Even numbers from "Migration Watch: Mythical challenges" may be striking for a lot of people who do not have the access to the critical info. that we have. (I think we tend to assume that people know the reality, but deny/ignore it, I think under this political hegemony aided/mediated by the media, lots of ordinary people lack some basic info. I am not proposing you to go to the poor neighbourhoods and make them aware of the "reality", but I think we need to expose the ruling power's lies and publicize/circulate the covered truth.) For instance, very simple but effective slogans/words/paintings touching and disturbing the superiority feelings of the white British over the others, revealing their ignorance and the limits of their liberalism etc etc. might be another way. I am not only talking about how to expose and unmake their lies, but we should also point out to the rulers' manipulative and silencing capacity. for instance even reformulating a mainstream news using the same data that the pro-status quo media uses like the "Migration Watch: Mythical challenges" does, may make people start questioning the so-called absolute truth.

We should be patient, most of all I think, which is quite difficult in this depressing political atmosphere where nothing seems to change by the will of the people in a positive way, actually where people seem to be rather apathized thanks to the welfare, which is actually on the fall.

As I said in the beginning, I am not very knowledgeable about the anxieties, fears, hopes and expectations of the white middle British society, therefore I can not make very specific proposals or my proposals might seem awkward and non-realistic to you. But what I can say from my own experience from a totally different context is that attacking the "untouchable myths" of a dominant power is effective, but as long as we have a social support with us. Therefore, we need to be able to explain to non-activist ordinary people what our intent is, we need to be understood by them, they should find something about themselves in our words. We need to refer to them. this is also a way perhaps to go beyond compartmentalized and campaign-based politics which as far as I saw colour the political scene in western europe.

Most probably there is nothing much new in what I wrote above. you must have discussed it all among yourselves otherwise this need for press action would not appear as a real necessity. besides, I am sorry if I sound like I am talking from above teaching you how to make politics, I did not mean it at all. I just wanted to discuss and contribute to your work/activism thru my own particular experience. In case you want to know more about the media-militarism-power issues in my own context and the discussions around alternative media etc. I can provide you with those specific examples/projects.

Greetings to all....

You slot everthing into tabloid style caegories too. e.g. single mums, refugees. What a lot of fetishes nd cliches you have. No borders to stupid pseudo-academic drivel, and IMF propaganda. It all looks just as biggoted as your counterparts on the right. 'Welfare apathy' - that gives it away you spoilt middle class networking wankers.

The IMF wants people to become a mobile workforce, easily policed without land rights serving the needs of the multinationals. This country has no manufacturing base and no real exports, it serves only capitalism, people who come here to work, come here for capitalism. I am tied of people spouting the propaganda of the IMF about welfare lethargy, I am capable of working extremely hard, and daily am appalled by the work-shy employed in their thinly veiled policing roles, their non-jobs, and the amount of over-payed arrogant pigs from all nations and all colours that owe there positions to doggy political preferment.

" It all looks just as biggoted as your counterparts on the right. 'Welfare apathy' - that gives it away you spoilt middle class networking wankers."

You spelt bigoted wrong.

Oh and the phrase 'Middle Class' is also a fetish/cliche of the IMF/Capitalismo.

And Lordy, you also said the W word. That's not very sociable is it!

I like the original article and I shall be attending your little party. It is high time the media were taught to pull their socks up, if there is one thing I cannot abide it is people who let their socks fall down and don't pull them up...oh and young men who wear those ankle socks with trainers and shorts that go down to the knees.

In my day we wore our socks to the knee and our shorts were fitted very tight and no lower than the bollock.

that's what is is to you - a little party -something funny - that still makes you a middle class wanker dennis whoever - and out of touch looking for your next povery-related-bandwaggon.

I am appalled by those comments which don't touch the crux of the issue, that is the relation between media-power-(radical)politics, but rather (so-called) commented on some catchwords in the text with a low gendered language. Why are you waiting in your fronts ready to catch a word and attack it in an aggressive way? Are you trying to prove that you are the most radical?

Why would anyone supporting the idea of "welfare lethargy" write a comment here in an indymedia site, anyway? this is the first thing. Besides, I have no idea how you compared my critical view on the white middle classes and their disinterest about any social issue with the right wing IMF discourse; how you got the impression that I am accusing the unemployed or the working classes with "lethargy" and view them as the root of the problems. I also find it inscrutable what you mean by the phrase "'Middle Class' is also a fetish/cliché of the IMF/Capitalismo" means. Does it mean that when we use the notion "middle class", we side with the IMF? I don't want to think that you are this much "bigoted".