Well, if you are speaking of the style of the news reporting, I agree.
But if you are referring to the source of the news we receive, then
from my way of thinking, our news is still controlled by the Ruling
Class, the Establishment.
We, all of us are held up to a standard of which few of us can ever
hope to measure up to.
But we have been brainwashed into believing that if we just pull a
little harder on our bootstraps we'll somehow make the transition.
As long as we live under the heel of the Capitalist Boot, our lives
will be determined by the Capitalist's bottom line, profit and
control. The Media is one place where Capitalism has got it right.
They seized the mass media and have hung on to it, promoting
themselves as the "Free Press". And of course the very statement
itself is a lie. Daily papers, radio, TV and now the Internet are
owned by the Ruling Class. And we pay our money and read, or listen
or watch the Free News, as allowed by the Establishment.
I'd ramble on, but it's time I folded my laundry and watch a bit of
Thom Hartmann. And as I watch, I will do my best to question his
sources.
Carl Jarvis
On 6/3/21, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I pick and choose what I read and listen to. But the way certain news
sources have changed, is a message about our society and power and
corruption. It's a warning about what we can believe. It also explains why
people think so differently about reality. I read in 2 articles that 35,000
were at a pro Palestinian demonstration in Washington DC. My daughter, who
gets all sorts of news alerts and headlines on her phone, never saw anything
about that demonstration on Saturday in Washington. Perhaps it was last week
that I read about various demonstrations in different cities. There was a
50,000 people's demonstration opposing Israel's actions in Gaza in Brooklyn.
Melanie saw nothing. When she searched, she found a news story that said
that there was a demonstration of "a large number of people". On the other
hand, there was a story all over the media about a Chinese imprisonment and
genocide of the Uyghurs. But the Grayzone had several investigative articles
which indicated that the story wasn't true. The history of Muslims in that
part of China was revealed and the story about the imprisonment and genocide
came from one source, an Evangelical Christian man who is a member of an
anti-China organization. Democracy Now carried the story, told by a woman
who is a member of a US group of Uyghurs backed by the National Endowment
for Democracy which is a creation of the CIA.
Miriam
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My personal feeling is that none of the sources I go to for obtaining "the
real news" is 100% honest. But I know how I've felt over the years as I saw
NPR and BBC change their focus. Still, I do have more contacts than I ever
have time to read.
Carl Jarvis
On 6/3/21, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yesterday, I posted a long article by Ben Norton about US interference
in Nicaraguan politics. It included some details that I hadn't read
previously.
Coincidentally, this morning on Democracy Now, one of the headline
stories was in reference to Nicaragua. Its content was identical to
the US propaganda described in Norton's article. I know that I keep
dwelling on this subject, but that's because it is really upsetting to
me to watch a news source that I once learned so much from, slowly
change. The only international news story about which the program has
remained constant and honest, is Israel/Palestine. But from 2011 on,
all of the other international news coverage has changed. The program
now focuses on identity politics, predominantly racial relations. I
haven't had a problem with its coverage of that subject, but I do
think that it uses a focus on black/white dysfunction to avoid
covering equally important issues like this administration's current
handling of immigration issues, the lack of truly meaningful
legislation regarding economic inequality and climate change, the
government's use of any possible excuse to increase mass surveillance,
and the ignoring of the government's war on press freedom and whistle
blowers.
Do you remember when Amy interviewed Julian Assange or Glenn Greenwald?
Each
of these individuals have disappeared from view on her program.
Miriam