By Stephen Lendman According to media scholar/critic Robert McChesney, today’s corporate journalism is co-opted, corrupted, gutted, and virtually worthless as a source of real news, information and analysis. As a result, a free and open society is at risk because fiction substitutes for fact. News is carefully managed. Dissent is marginalized, and supporting wealth and [...]
By Russ Wellen. Republished from FPIF. All too often the mainstream media, whether out of cowardice or lack of curiosity, defaults to a reflexive replication of the meme of the day. They’re apparently oblivious to the maxim — apologies to Socrates — that a meme (a cultural practice or idea) unexamined is a meme not [...]
A special report by MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media Dateline: July 23, 2009 MEDIA ALERT: AFGHANISTAN – “BIG BEASTS,” BIG BLOODBATH Closing The Loop Nick Robinson—rowing against the current—an “irritant to world leaders” – The “big beasts” of the pre-digital media age are in big trouble, the Guardian tells [...]
HA • GI • OG • RA • PHY 1 : biography of saints or venerated persons 2 : idealizing or idolizing biography 3 : creating superheroes and saints out of ordinary mortals for cultural or chauvinist propaganda reasons BONUS FEATURE: Exit NBC anchor Tom Brokaw, a nonentity in the service of wealth and power [...]
By Doug Moss // [print_link] IN APRIL 2006, TV COMEDY SHOW HOST STEPHEN COLBERT closed out the annual White House Correspondents Dinner with a sarcastic speech that ridiculed both the Bush Administration and the U.S. press corps as they were finishing their desserts. A video of his remarks subsequently spread rapidly across the Internet, and [...]
Robert Scheer: BBC film asks if we’re chasing a phantom enemy By Robert Scheer / Los Angeles Times Robert Gates testifying on the Capitol, April 30, 2009. Gates says the recent series of highly deadly bombings in Iraq is an attempt by al-Qaida to spark sectarian violence as U.S. troops reduce their security role. Is it conceivable [...]
“The responses to the poll showed that people think the economy is getting better (in the absence of substantive evidence), and that Obama has a lot to do with it.” BY GLEN FORD | Senior Editor, Black Agenda Report Barack Obama massacred George Bush at the polls this week – the New York Times/CBS poll, [...]
Swans Commentary » swans.com March 23, 2009 By Michael Barker “When the twentieth century becomes history it will be seen as distinctive, I believe, for three developments in liberal Western societies: the growth of democracy; the rise of huge concentrations of economic power, known as corporations; and the professionalizing and institutionalizing of propaganda, especially as a means for safe-guarding [...]
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