[dissident]

http://journal-neo.org/2015/09/28/the-w ... heres-why/

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')n 2007, when he exposed the then Bush-administration’s plans to use the Muslim Brotherhood and militant groups linked to Al Qaeda to overthrow the government of Syria – the result of which is unfolding today – the New Yorker gladly welcomed his work as a message they perceived would resonate well with liberal audiences.

But then in 2013, when Hersh brought forward information contradicting the West’s official narrative regarding a chemical attack on the outskirts of Damascus, the New Yorker decided not to publish it. His report, “Whose Sarin?” instead found itself published in the London Review of Books.

The story of Hersh bringing this information forward to the public and how the Western media attempted to first discourage it, then bury it, before attempting to discredit both the report and Hersh himself is a microcosm of the dying Western media.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'h')ttp://journal-neo.org/2015/09/28/the-western-media-is-dying-and-heres-why/

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')n 2007, when he exposed the then Bush-administration’s plans to use the Muslim Brotherhood and militant groups linked to Al Qaeda to overthrow the government of Syria – the result of which is unfolding today – the New Yorker gladly welcomed his work as a message they perceived would resonate well with liberal audiences.

But then in 2013, when Hersh brought forward information contradicting the West’s official narrative regarding a chemical attack on the outskirts of Damascus, the New Yorker decided not to publish it.

…... If you care about democracy, then you should care about the true state of the information space that generates public opinion and lubricates government policy. We are now back in the 1930s with cheesy, ham-fisted authoritarian "freedom".

[Newfie]

Having given up TV 6 years ago, we are now divesting ouselves from NPR.

Our news comes from online and...here, or places like it. For better or worse.

[Apneaman]

Americans' Trust in Media Remains at Historical Low



http://www.gallup.com/poll/185927/ameri ... aign=tiles

[Apneaman]

planty, the young millennials should have stood up to their parents when they were 5 years old and demanded Shakespeare. They should have refused to be shoved in front of the TV or relegated to their bedrooms with a computer, cell phone, TV, DVD. Another bad personal choice eh? All that shit is just another consumer product and every generation has more of it heaped upon them. It's good for the economy don't ch know? This is the end game of capitalism and all the degeneracy and rejection of past norms is standard in every case of past failed civilizations. Authorianism is all that is left to TPTB. You have to have your head way up your ass not to see it. The patriot act, NDAA, NSA, and all the rest - 17 or 18 agencies in the US alone? All these comments stored on server farms. For what? The NDAA has such a vague definition of who is a terrorist that everyone is if they say so. Anyone they want. Corporate personhood. Forfeit asset seizures, most people in the world in prison - over 2 million. The majority of the media is owned by TTB. Just because you are living in a gilded suburban cage does not mean you do not live in an authoritarian society. If your interests, your freedom clashes with the government or the corporate world, you will be crushed. All the checks and balances have been legislated away and the only rule of law left is the iron one. Cashless society and the few trade agreements being pushed through are the final pieces. No worries planty, because it is crumbling under it's own weight. Won't be long now. How ironic that this is exactly what Marx predicted would happen to us. Cannibalised.

[ralfy]

Likely a global phenomenon. For example,

"How the Media Became One of Putin’s Most Powerful Weapons"

http://www.theatlantic.com/internationa ... on/391062/

[ennui2]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dissident', '
')Anyone running around screaming about Assad and his "butchery" needs to stop and use their brain before swallowing what the "free mainstream media" is dishing out.

[ennui2]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '
')A generation raised on Beavis and Butthead and The Simpsons isn't going to sit still for hours reading newspapers or books or the New Yorker.

[davep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ennui2', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dissident', '
')Anyone running around screaming about Assad and his "butchery" needs to stop and use their brain before swallowing what the "free mainstream media" is dishing out.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ennui2', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '
') Beavis and Butthead .....

[dissident]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ralfy', 'L')ikely a global phenomenon. For example,

"How the Media Became One of Putin’s Most Powerful Weapons"

http://www.theatlantic.com/internationa ... on/391062/

[Keith_McClary]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ennui2', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dissident', '
')Anyone running around screaming about Assad and his "butchery" needs to stop and use their brain before swallowing what the "free mainstream media" is dishing out.

[onlooker]

Do not trust any "big" media or media company. I prefer if possible to get news from bloggers or a small fringe media co or website. Says much of the world we now live in that news is hardly "free" anywhere around the world. It is used as a tool of governments and corporations to transmit a message favorable to them.

[ralfy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dissident', '
')
The Atlantic a two bit NATO propaganda rag here engaged in projecting what the NATO media is all about, corporate and elite control, onto Russia. Putin this, Putin that. Putin has more legitimacy than Obama and Harper. But of course the NATO mass media engages in the typical two minutes' hate demonization. BTW, I can find diametrically opposed positions in the Russian mass media (for example from the pro-NATO Dozhd TV, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Kommersant, etc). I can find no such thing in the NATO mass media. The NATO media is a chorus that sings the same tune at exactly the same time. Alternative media is not relevant to this point as it exists in Russia as well. And Russians don't have a culture of trusting their mass media unlike NATO where the media is given the benefit of the doubt.

Right now the NATO media, specifically the dominant American one, has lost the plot. They are actually calling Al Qaeda militants in Syria "moderates". But this says more about the gullibility of the NATO media consumer than about the retarded propagandists peddling nonsensical narratives to them. Perhaps it is time to "question more".

[Ulenspiegel]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Keith_McClary', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ennui2', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dissident', '
')Anyone running around screaming about Assad and his "butchery" needs to stop and use their brain before swallowing what the "free mainstream media" is dishing out.

[onlooker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')gain, what we are looking at is nothing more than military powers taking advantage of weaker countries by arming one group or another.

Pro-NATO and pro-Russia are nothing more than two sides of the same coin.

[efarmer]

Traditional print and electronic media, being advertising driven, always had to balance their real journalism efforts with enough fluff and sensation to make it sell and attract adverts. With the web gathering individual needs and preferences and delivering targeted adverts to individuals, the power supply is removed from what used to provide a bit of real journalism. Both before and after the internet there always was nationalistic propaganda from every direction that was construed to cloak or misdirect things, E.G. invasions cloaked as liberation, and so on a so forth.

The Western Media is alive and thriving IMHO, the content has just assumed the common denominator to achieve maximum advertising revenue, which is sensation of every sort that can be conjured.

[Keith_McClary]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ralfy', 'P')ro-NATO and pro-Russia are nothing more than two sides of the same coin.

[ennui2]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('onlooker', 'I') prefer if possible to get news from bloggers or a small fringe media co or website.