Monday, June 21, 2010

Fighting Talk: The New Propaganda

by Robert Fisk from The Independent. This renowned journalist reveals that the profession of journalism has been made to serve the needs of the Empire, and how it manipulates words for that purpose.
Many of my colleagues on various Western newspapers would ultimately risk their jobs if they were constantly to challenge the false reality of news journalism, the nexus of media-government power.
You mean, like Helen Thomas and Peter Arnett?