Link to an article by Aviva Chomsky:
“All the News That’s Fit to Print: How the Media Hide Undocumented Workers”
Bonus links: “What Pierre Bourdieu Taught Me” and “Should Journalists Care If Sources Go Off to Prison?”
Tag: Journalism
Belén Fernández – Beirut and Paris: A Tale of Two Terror Attacks
Link to an article by Belén Fernández:
“Beirut and Paris: A Tale of Two Terror Attacks”
Bonus link: “Paris Attack: Isis Has Created a New Kind of Warfare”
John Pilger – The Revolutionary Act of Telling the Truth
Link to a transcript of an address by John Pilger given for the launching of the book The Wikileaks Files:
Paul Street – The Nature and Mission of U.S. Corporate Mass Media
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.
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”