[lbo-talk] Authentic Journalism

[Joseph Wanzala]

What Chip is obscuring here is the truth about what his favored version of 
"alternative" journalism is, what this "training" has entailed---and what 
agencies of the government, and which corporate interests benefit from this 
false Left culture that he and others have spent years propping up.

What is amply documented, in any objective analysis of "progressive" 
journalism, is that there are clear and obvious parameters of what elite 
progressive gatekeepers consider "correct". And these parameters invariably 
leave realities---the true "structural facts"---intentionally hidden; the 
progressive flock permanently distracted and led astray. This inculcation, 
censorship and control keeps corruption alive and well.

Z Media, IPA, Pacifica, The Nation, FAIR, on and on. Every single one of 
these groups, and the vast majority of its managers and contributors, is 
guilty of every charge that Chomsky/Herman make against the corporate media 
in "Manufacturing Consent". A nice "hide the hot dog" trick, by the leaders 
who are "manufacturing progressive consent".

Chip is flat out disinforming. As he always does.

Joe W.


>From: "Chip Berlet" <c.berlet at publiceye.org>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
>Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Authentic Journalism
>Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:54:54 -0500
>
>Hi,
>
>See below...
>
>________________________________
>
>From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org on behalf of Joseph Wanzala
>Sent: Tue 11/16/2004 1:44 PM
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Authentic Journalism
>http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/111604_cynthia_mckinney.shtml
>
>Cynthia McKinney:
>"We Need Narco News, and It Needs Us"
>
>A Letter from Georgia's Congresswoman-Elect on the Need for Authentic Media
>
><<SNIP>>
>
>"The right wing has been indoctrinating young journalists with its own
>scholarship programs for 30 years. The Narco News School of Authentic
>Journalism is the first project of its kind to fight back by building an
>international army of truth-telling journalists of talent and fighting
>spirit."
>
><SNIP>>
>
>= = =
>
>Chip:
>
>This is flat out false. The Z Media Institute and the Independent Press 
>Association have been doing trainings of alternative journalists for years.
>
>Apparently, in cyberspace, "Authentic Journalism" means not relying on two 
>sources, not fact-checking, and printing rumors as facts.
>
>-Chip Berlet
>
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