We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Thursday, February 16, 2012

The New York Times: America's Unofficial Propaganda Ministry

Click here to access article by Stephen Lendman from The Peoples Voice.
For over a century, The Times played America's lead role disseminating state/corporate propaganda duplicitously.

Its daily diet features managed, not real, news, information and analysis. Readers don't get what they pay for. They're cheated on what matters most.

What it reports, other major media scoundrels regurgitate. Readers and viewers are left misinformed and uninformed in the dark.

Wealth and power support defines its agenda, especially when America goes to war or plans to.
The NY Times, along with the Washington Post, really does function as a propaganda ministry for the One Percent ruling class in the US. Although it does provide much more hard news than other newspapers, it also frames issues of concern to capitalists and sets the limits of criticism or revelations of misdeeds of capitalist agents that can be allowed to be published in any media. Journalists or media companies who violate these guidelines are often punished severely. (See this posting.)
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