The Unmasking of the Corporate Media
http://www.strike-the-root.com/81/allport/allport4.html
This column was published Jan 28. Dr. Paul is used in several examples, but the overall topic goes beyond that. Excerpts:
This is the year the corrupt corporate media loses what little credibility it still has.
Not that the Old Media deserved much trust or respect in the past; it has always been, with rare exceptions, a way for rich white men (and a few other rich people) to mold public opinion in whatever manner they desired, which typically meant "whatever manner would make them the most money." For example, newspapers (and then radio and then television) have historically been cheerleaders for war (link is to video of Rupert Murdoch saying that his media outlets have "basically supported the Bush policy" on the war; 1 min 33 sec), and as the highly-decorated General Smedley Butler told us, War is a Racket – the most profitable government make-work program ever. Stephen Kinzer's excellent Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq includes many examples of news organizations clamoring for invasion and war, often using the most repugnant jingoism and racism in the process.
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The propaganda is working, to some extent – propaganda always has some effect – but I sense a race in progress between the corporate media's desire to keep the idea of freedom from getting loose in the world again, versus the spreading awareness among the public that the corporate media absolutely cannot be trusted.
