Tag: White Man’s Media

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Best of 2022: White Man’s Media: The Washington consensus and legacy media frames and conditions our thinking and actions. An updated repost by John Menadue – Pearls and Irritations

White mans media

News Corp was a key supporter of the Iraq War — the Murdoch War. Of the 173 Murdoch papers worldwide only one, The Hobart Mercury opposed the war. Murdoch told us in 2003: ‘I think Bush acted very morally, very correctly. US troops will soon be welcomed as liberators’. His foreign editor on The Australian, Greg Sheridan, could not contain himself. ‘The bold eagle of American power is aloft, high above the humble earth. For as it soars and sweeps it sees victory, power and opportunity’. He is still in his job. Murdoch prefers loyalty to competence in all those around him, including his family.

Even some of the legacy media apologised for their support of the illegal war in Iraq. But never Murdoch nor for that matter John Howard.

News Corp in Australia for over a decade has also led the campaign of denial on climate change.

The US military/business/security complex exercises destructive and pervasive power. Legacy media supplies a favourable frame for that complex.

Our derivative media ties us to the white legacy media of the North Atlantic. It frames our view of the world.

 

Most political colonies have come to an end. But a colonial mind set continues in the media and promotes a ‘colonisation of the mind’.

Source: Best of 2022: White Man’s Media: The Washington consensus and legacy media frames and conditions our thinking and actions. An updated repost by John Menadue – Pearls and Irritations

Informed Comment

A feast of new reading outside the grip of corporate western media – Pearls and Irritations

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There is nothing more important than informed perspective, for which it is necessary to step outside the grip of corporate western media.

John Menadue has drawn attention to how our views of the world are dominated by ‘white man’s media’.

This is a listing of other sources of news and commentary, by people of all kinds. I leave it to the reader to assess the quality of these sources, particularly by going to the ‘About’ section of web sites where possible.

There is nothing more important than informed perspective, for which it is necessary to step outside the grip of corporate western media.

Source: A feast of new reading outside the grip of corporate western media – Pearls and Irritations

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The White Man’s Media must be challenged in the post western world – Pearls and Irritations

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Source: The White Man’s Media must be challenged in the post western world – Pearls and Irritations

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White Man’s Media: Legacy media in the US and UK frames and conditions our thinking and actions – Pearls and Irritations

White mans media

Most political colonies have come to an end. But a colonial mind set continues in the media .That colonial media mind set in turn promotes a ‘colonisation of the mind’. The US Department of Defence maintains, in its own words ‘full spectrum dominance’ throughout the world. Legacy media in the US and the UK has the same dominance. It frames and influences how we think and particularly how governments act.

Source: White Man’s Media: Legacy media in the US and UK frames and conditions our thinking and actions – Pearls and Irritations