While children are being burned alive in Palestine, all legacy media will talk about is two Israeli embassy workers who were killed and a US citizen who tried to firebomb a US embassy in Israel
Each of your articles informs and helps enlarge my perspective. This one hit me in the solar plexus. My husband was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam and came home telling me stories about corporate interests driving policy in the military. After he left the Army, he got his degree in journalism from one of the best journalism schools in the country during the Watergate era. He taught me the ethics and principles behind journalism. We have watched all of that erode over the years. I have shared your articles with him, and he is as impressed as I. Your work is invaluable, and we are grateful for your wisdom and writing.
Our history teachers taught us about "yellow journalism", a kind of reporting from 18th or 19th century America, that was obviously slanted and presented with an observable bias. They instructed us to be wary of reporting in our present day with subjective language, and look for the most accurate and neutrally presented facts when getting news.
The editorializing passing as news over the last few decades has produced an uninformed, skeptical and cynical populace that's prone to gobbling up bad information and outright conspiracy theory. That people continue tuning in, and most seem to prefer this kind of opinionated "news", is evidence to me that the majority of consumers don't appreciate that news is to inform, not reinforce your worldview.
I keep returning to the paradox of the lovely New York Times coverage of weddings and engagements, and how a NYT photographer would not have been able to take an engagement photo of the socially prominent couple in Jerusalem, being international press affected by a blackout.
You are right about this racist discrepancy from legacy media. According to Nader, USA bombs have killed 1.3M people so far at two per bomb, doubled for starvation and disease. Yet the two embassy staff hog the news cycle because as Hedges says genocide is the currency of western domination.
Each of your articles informs and helps enlarge my perspective. This one hit me in the solar plexus. My husband was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam and came home telling me stories about corporate interests driving policy in the military. After he left the Army, he got his degree in journalism from one of the best journalism schools in the country during the Watergate era. He taught me the ethics and principles behind journalism. We have watched all of that erode over the years. I have shared your articles with him, and he is as impressed as I. Your work is invaluable, and we are grateful for your wisdom and writing.
Thank you both so much. ✊🏽
Our history teachers taught us about "yellow journalism", a kind of reporting from 18th or 19th century America, that was obviously slanted and presented with an observable bias. They instructed us to be wary of reporting in our present day with subjective language, and look for the most accurate and neutrally presented facts when getting news.
The editorializing passing as news over the last few decades has produced an uninformed, skeptical and cynical populace that's prone to gobbling up bad information and outright conspiracy theory. That people continue tuning in, and most seem to prefer this kind of opinionated "news", is evidence to me that the majority of consumers don't appreciate that news is to inform, not reinforce your worldview.
Very well said!
I keep returning to the paradox of the lovely New York Times coverage of weddings and engagements, and how a NYT photographer would not have been able to take an engagement photo of the socially prominent couple in Jerusalem, being international press affected by a blackout.
You are right about this racist discrepancy from legacy media. According to Nader, USA bombs have killed 1.3M people so far at two per bomb, doubled for starvation and disease. Yet the two embassy staff hog the news cycle because as Hedges says genocide is the currency of western domination.