Mr. Michael Barker

Soros' manipulation of the progressive media is highlighted in an article by Michael Barker, a doctoral student at Griffith University in Australia, titled "The Soros Media ‘Empire.'" Soros' role in "democracy manipulation" is cited in the article: "The Soros Foundations' most recent annual report shows that Soros still remains a force to be reckoned with among democracy manipulators, as the entire Soros Foundations Network distributed over $400 million worth of grants in 2006."

Michael Barker, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
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Furthermore, a growing body of work suggests that similar 'democracy promoting' practices now serve as an integral foreign policy tool to help 'promote polyarchy' (Dahl, 1971) over more substantive and participatory forms of democracy (Robinson, 1996: Barker, 2006a).Likewise, other research has begun to examine how selective support of 'independent' media organisations in geo-strategically important countries has helped facilitate revolutions (e.g., the coloured revolutions in Eastern Europe) to further the polyarchal interests of trans-national capitalism (Barker, 2006b; Barker, Submitted a).
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Barker, M. J. (2005) 'Manufacturing policies: the media's role in the policy making process'.Refereed paper presented to the Journalism Education Conference, Griffith University, 29 November - 2 December 2005, http://live-wirez.gu.edu.au/jea.papers/Barker.doc

Barker, M. J. (2006a) 'Taking the risk out of civil society: harnessing social movements and regulating revolutions'.Refereed paper presented to the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Newcastle 25-27 September 2006, http://www.newcastle.edu.au/

Barker, M. J. (2006b) 'Civil society, empowered or overpowered?The role of the mass media in "promoting democracy" worldwide'.Refereed paper presented to the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association, University of Adelaide 5-7 July 2006.

Barker, M. J. (Submitted a) 'Mediating protests: A critical examination of the relation between the mass media and social movements' in SCAN: Journal of Media Arts Culture.

Michael Barker, a PhD student at Griffith University in Brisbane who studies social and political movements, says much of the present international campaigning for a free Tibet is financed by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which is closely linked to the CIA.

Mr Barker, in a paper written in August last year, notes that the NED was established in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan.

Soros' manipulation of the progressive media is highlighted in an article by Michael Barker, a doctoral student at Griffith University in Australia, titled "The Soros Media ‘Empire.'" Soros' role in "democracy manipulation" is cited in the article: "The Soros Foundations' most recent annual report shows that Soros still remains a force to be reckoned with among democracy manipulators, as the entire Soros Foundations Network distributed over $400 million worth of grants in 2006."

By Michael Barker, doctoral candidate at Griffith University, Australia

The BBC and Medialens: a match made in heaven? - Michael BarkerFifth-Estate-Online

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Michael Barker

For the past six years, the media watchdog, Medialens, has been regularly drawing the British public's attention to the role the liberal media (i.e. the Guardian, the Independent, and the BBC) plays in preserving the status quo.