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"Journalistic content is a technical complex
expressly intended to adapt
man to the machine" - Jacques Ellul,
Technological Society, 1964
Journalistic
Integrity
"The military newspaper Stars
and Stripes reported that the Pentagon is using its favorite public
relations firms, the Rendon
Group, to produce profiles of reporters requesting to embed with US forces
in Afghanistan.
Profiles graded reporters'
past coverage as "positive," "neutral" or "negative," sometimes suggesting how
to "neutralize" expected negative coverage or how to design embeds to "result
in favorable coverage".
In some cases, the profiles prompted military
officials to reject reporters' embed requests." - The Weekly Spin,
September 9, 2009
"Christ is important because his solidarity with
his brothers
and sisters is what guarantees
salvation in the
present."
Jon Sobrino Jesus the Liberator
"Investigative reporting - the
kind Jack Anderson used to do regularly and which was carried in hundreds of
papers across the country, the kind of muckraking, data-intensive work that
takes time and money and ruffles feathers - is dying.
To begin with,
investigations take time and money.
In America's cash-short,
instant-deadline journalistic world, there's not much room for that.
Are
there investigative reporters in America?
I'll mention two:
Seymour Hersh, formerly of the
New York Times, and Robert Parry, formerly of the
Associated
Press, who uncovered the
Iran-Contra
scandal.
Robert Parry tells me that he can no longer do investigative
work within the confines of an American daily newsroom.
One of the
biggest disincentives to doing investigative journalism is that it jeopardizes
future access to politicians and transnational corporate
elite.
During the I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby trial, the testimony of
Judith Miller and other American journalists about confidences they were
willing to keep in order to maintain access seemed to me sadly illuminating." -
Greg Palast
"Professional journalism had three distinct ceaseless biases
built into it.
First, it regards anything done by official sources,
government officials and prominent public figures, as the basis for legitimate
news.
Second, professional journalism posits that there had to be a
news hook or a news peg to justify a news story. This helped to stimulate the
birth and rapid rise of the public relations (PR) industry. Surveys show that
PR accounts for anywhere from 40 to 70% of what appears as news.
Thirdly, professional journalism smuggles in values conducive to the
commercial aims of the owners and advertisers as well as the political aims of
the executive boardroom class." - Robert McChesney
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author feels that the falsification of reality outside personal experience has
forged a populace unable to discern propaganda from reality and that this has
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agents who wish to foist a corrupt version of reality on the human race.
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industrial military entertainment complex and is responsible for the collapse
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deceive the populace in general through corporate media by pressing emotional
buttons which have been preprogrammed into the population through prior
corporate media psychological operations. The results have been the destruction
of the family and the destruction of social structures that do not adhere to
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