Tuesday, April 27, 2010

PBS Edits Out Single Payer Proposal

from Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting. PBS, like NPR, functions as a gatekeeper, or filter, of ideas for the ruling class and greatly facilitates the "manufacture of consent" that is the function of all mainstream media in the US.
Silencing supporters of single-payer, or Medicare for All, is a media staple, but PBS's Frontline  found a new way to do that on the April 13 special Obama's Deal--by selectively editing an interview with a single-payer advocate and footage of single-payer protesters to make them appear to be activists for a public option instead.