Thursday, July 8, 2010

Octavia Nasr's firing and what the liberal media allows

by Glenn Greenwald from Salon. The article provides an excellent survey of the many journalists who have lost their jobs in mainstream media because of their unacceptable views--unacceptable to the rulers of the Empire. 

However, he does miss one that I remember--Ray Bonner of the NY Times for reporting on a massacre in 1982 by the US supported Salvadorean army.  Technically, he wasn't fired--just given a desk job. He quit soon afterward. 

Such disciplinary actions like this serve as warnings to many other journalists not to stray to far from the capitalist party line.