2024-03-19
"I remember 25, 30 years ago we used to point to the BBC as the counterpoint to the biased and propagandistic US media, I would say now the BBC is as bad as any ... "
" ... that means that these propaganda narratives may be more pervasive than ever, but I think they are more mistrusted and disdained than ever as well ... "
Chris Hedges interviews Ali Abuminah, "a Palestinian-American journalist and the co-founder of The Electronic Intifada".
This initially impresses as being as dry as dust, but actually it's a pretty clear exposition of how propaganda has progressively swamped actual news journalism over recent times, to the point now where independent journalism has been comprehensively banished from mainstream media outlets. Stick with it, and hear the ways in which media manipulation is used to frame public opinion being coolly and meticulously dissected.
"The media has become a far more domesticated mouthpiece for the government ... "
"I mentioned the BBC earlier. which to me has become one of the starkest and most shocking examples of that ... "
(62 minutes)
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