Western media fraud in the Middle East
Too many journalists report official narratives of the powerful, missing the stories of working class people.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/05/201151882929682601.html
It's the same old story. But this seems to be good telling of it.
``Journalists are the archetype of ideological tools who create culture and produce knowledge. Their function is to represent a class and perpetuate the dominant ideology instead of building a counter hegemonic and revolutionary ideology, or narrative, in this case. They are the organic intellectuals of the ruling class. Instead of being the voice of the people or the working class, journalists are too often the functional tools for a bourgeois ruling class. They produce and disseminate culture and meaning for the system and reproduce its values, allowing it to hegemonise the field of culture and since journalism today has a specific political economy, they are all products of the hegemonic discourse and the moneyed class.''