The Nation - Selected Editorial

[Charles Brown]

I know I say this all of the time, but Michael
Parenti's _Inventing Reality_  pulls together in
one place many of the reallife Orwellian 
methods of the monopoly
media that we all observe and lament constantly.
One point he makes and develops is the
powerlessness of reporters relative to
editors and publishers. How reporters learn
to lie semi-consciously while consciously
pursuing a profession that professes to
be society's main truthseeker.

On lies about Social Security as with everything else
the solution is difficult because it is a 
knot , a double bind: We can't change communication
among the masses without the masses changing
the fundamental institutions; and the masses can't
change the fundamental institutions without
revolutionary communications among the masses.

Charles Brown


>>> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> 08/07 4:39 PM >>>
michael perelman wrote:


>The way to save Social Security is to put the money in the stock market,
>appoint Lt. Calley to run it and then move the operations to Mai Lai.
>Why has the media let the repubs. use such Orwellian language?

Because most reporters are upper-middle income and ape the preferences of
their employers, who are members of the bourgeoisie. And because most
reporters don't know what they're talking about, so they turn to
consecrated "experts," who are in the pay of the monied. Everybody knows
that, right?

Doug