Mossad would have had Pilger on their hit list
John Pilger, who died on December 30, had an extraordinary career as a reporter. His journalism informed countless people about the catastrophic impact of US foreign policy during and after the Cold War, from Vietnam and Cambodia to Nicaragua and East Timor.
Source: John Pilger’s Reporting Demolished Western Propaganda’s Myths
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And what’s left of the fourth and fifth estates? The field of journalism has largely become overly corporatized.
For example, Canada’s largest news-media corporation, which among many other publications also owns both national daily newspapers, is on record formally allying itself with not only the planet’s second most polluting forms of carbon-based “energy” but also THE MOST polluting/dirtiest crude oil, bitumen.
Also, a few years ago, it had acquired a lobbying firm with close ties to Alberta’s then premier in order to participate in his government’s $30 million PR “war room” in promoting the fossil fuel industry’s interests there, the most prolific carbon-based-energy producing province. And in May of 2021, the newspaper giant refused to run paid ads by Leadnow, a social and environmental justice organization, exposing the Royal Bank of Canada as the largest financer of the nation’s fossil fuel extraction.
Seemingly long ago, mainstream journalism tended to challenge the powers-that-be in order to truly comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable in an increasingly unjust global existence.
Now, so much of it has become a profession motivated more by a regular company paycheck and frequently published name/face with stories or opinions — a buck and a byline, so to speak.
Also troubling is that mainstream news-outlet websites [e.g. The Washington Post’s] are increasingly converting to ‘pay-to-say’ formats, where the reader is allowed to consume the article without charge but must buy a subscription in order to comment on the article.
Meantime, there still are reporters and editors who will (as though with big innocent fawn-like eyes) reply to accusations of subjective journalism with, ‘Who, me? I’m just the messenger.’
Whatever the news media may be, they’re not ‘just the messenger’; nor are they but a reflection of the community — or their consumer base, for that matter — in which they circulate. Perhaps such compromised or subjective journalism has become normalized.
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