Link to an article by Paul Street:
“The Nature and Mission of U.S. Corporate Mass Media”
As usual, Street succumbs to a bit of “beautiful soul syndrome” but otherwise offers some valuable insights.
Tag: Journalism
Mark J. Perry – Is There Really a “War on Cops”?
Link to an article by Mark J. Perry:
David Cromwell – “Bullying”: BBC Political Editor’s Bizarre Term For The Public Resisting The Establishment
Link to an article by David Cromwell:
“‘Bullying’: BBC Political Editor’s Bizarre Term For The Public Resisting The Establishment”
Matt Peppe – Media Uncritical of Justifications for Shooting Escaped Convict
Link to an article by Matt Peppe:
“Media Uncritical of Justifications for Shooting Escaped Convict”
Bonus link: “Outlaws in the Eyes of Amerika” (“The author . . . tends to assume the moral correctness of the system and its police forces, accepts their version of the events he describes, despite a historical record that proves not only that the government had its own questionably moral agenda, but that it was more than willing to violate the laws it was supposedly upholding to destroy these groups and terminate not only their activities but their politics.”)
Evelyn McDonnell Interviews Richard Goldstein
Link to an interview of Richard Goldstein by Evelyn McDonnell about the book Another Little Piece of My Heart: My Life of Rock and Revolution in the ’60s (2015):
“Live Through This: A Pioneering Rock Critic Looks Back with Love and Sorrow on the 1960s”
Lester Bangs – Astral Weeks Review
Link to Lester Bangs‘ review of the Van Morrison album Astral Weeks (1968) from Stranded (1979):
Julian Assange Interview
Links to excepts from an interview with Julian Assange of Wikileaks:
“The Kill List: ICWatch Uses LinkedIn Account Info to Out Officials Who Aided Assassination Program”
“Assange on the Untold Story of the Grounding of Evo Morales’ Plane During Edward Snowden Manhunt”
Orit Gat – ‘Thanks’: On Negative Criticism
Link to an article by Orit Gat:
Susan Milligan – The President and the Press
Link to an article by Susan Milligan:
Bonus links: “State Department Announces New ‘Long-standing’ Policy Against Backing Coups” and Killing Hope and “Administration Sets Record for Withholding Government Files” and “Oil Imperialism and Monetary Policy” and “Fear and Loathing 40 Years Later” and “When Our Monsters Speak, TV Journalists go Deaf”
Tamara Pearson – Who Owns the Words?
Link to an article by Tamara Pearson: