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Next stop of the war train: Iran
After years of propagating lies about Iraq and its alleged threat to the world, the New York Times continues to publish Bush administration talking points, this time outlining the supposed menace of Iran. Critical thinking? Don’t expect that from the “paper of record.”
Tell them to leave their offices
When the mainstream media talks about “average” voters and “what they think”, journalists are actually, as Salon’s Glenn Greenwald correctly writes, simply reinforcing their ignorance of life beyond the insulated bubble: As always, it’s not [the New York Times’] David Brooks and his childish colleagues in journalism who are interested in insipid, Drudge-like storylines. No,…
Keeping the masses underfed
Glenn Greenwald, civil libertarian, blogger and author, discusses the themes in his new book Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics, conservatives’ bogus anti-government rhetoric as they preside over the biggest growth of government ever, their contempt for the Constitution they claim to venerate as they consolidate all power constitutional and otherwise…
Spot the news story
My following article appears in today’s ABC Unleashed: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s overseas trip has been extensively covered in the mainstream media. From George W. Bush to Gordon Brown, the travelling journalists have given readers and viewers a running commentary of his daily meetings. Missing from the vast majority of the coverage, however, has been…
Please don’t hurt them
A timely lesson in how the American mainstream media views its relationship with the most powerful figures in society.
Occupation as a permanent state of affairs
Who said the New York Times, a supposedly “liberal” publication, isn’t still publishing one of its lead writers to continually call for an indefinite American presence in Iraq? This is what “serious” journalists do.