Click here to access article by Colin Todhunter from CounterCurrents.
Of course, his comments applies to almost all Western mainstream media. What we now have are "ministries of truth" that feed their publics with carefully formulated messages to manage their consent to policies and actions that are steadily leading us down the slope to barbarism. At times these ministries offer up "news" about sex scandals, celebrities, Queen celebrations, phony elections and other mind-numbing infotainment to distract us; while at other times they package reports of their war crimes as "humanitarian missions". I have over a half century perspective on mainstream media reporting, and I have seen it deteriorate decade after decade along with the growth of the Empire that is slowly wrecking devastation on many parts of the world.
What's to be done? We, the 99 Percent, simply must establish our own media, and we must support those who, like Bradley Manning and Julian Assange, take enormous risks to reveal the hidden crimes of the Empire. Most importantly, we must work to slowly--or maybe quickly--dismantle the system that feeds these warmongers, economy wreckers, and ecosystem destroyers.