[lbo-talk] Re: China [was: Blowing Up an Assumption]

[Jim Devine]

Chris Doss: >I think he omits one reason for Western journalism's
general position on this issue: ignorance. I worked in
the Russia press corps. 75% of these people are sent
to Russia knowing nothing at all about the country
other than what they've read in Western media reports,
and so what they end up writing is Western media
reports citing other Western media reports.<

I think it was media critic and poli sci prof. Dan Hallin who writes
that managers move journalists from country to country in order to
prevent them from "going native." This keeps them in line with the
dominant editorial stance of their bosses and of course with the
dominant ideology. It also keeps them ignorant of the facts on the
ground.

JD