Solomon is a long time media specialist and advocate for unrestricted journalism. As a liberal critic he always attacks the surface problems faced by honest journalist who must work within a social-economic system (capitalism) that requires deception and self-censorship in their reporting of important events. In this brief, rather pathetic appeal for "real journalism" he alludes to the deeper problems in our society in which the major institutions promote an ideology of freedom and civil liberties and lay claim to having some kind of genuine "democracy". Missing is any reference to the system itself which makes such problems inevitable.
From incessant war and arming the world, to climate change and coddling fossil fuel industries, to anti-democratic governance and enabling vast NSA surveillance, the U.S. power structure -- with epicenters along Wall Street and Pennsylvania Avenue -- continues to dominate. That power structure is a clear, present and horrendous threat to human survival, the natural world of this planet and the possibilities for authentic democracy.In another piece by Pam Martens entitled "Obama and the Pope Versus the Ayn Rand Corporate Front Groups", we see her attacking the problems in higher education in the same limited way while pretending that Obama and the Pope are serious dissidents. Liberal critics all over the US are fighting and losing a desperate defensive battle against the devolution of US society into a hideous dystopia.
