In the US however, it is a different story and most dissidents somehow expect the corporate media to be "objective" - only anarchists are the exception if Graeber is to be believed.
As for myself - I do not watch TV at all, and the only radio that I am occasionally listening to is public WETA that plays mostly classical music, has no "stories" a few very subdued commercials and the news are limited to 5 minute NPR news on the hour. Most of my news sources come from the internet - BBC, Aljazeera or Google News. Media lie - it is a given. But the US media - especially TV - transformed lying to an art form.
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> (From today's Democracy Now)
>
> New research shows many so-called experts who appeared on television
> making the case for U.S. strikes on Syria had undisclosed ties to military
> contractors. A new report by the Public Accountability Initiative
> identifies 22 commentators with industry ties. While they appeared on
> television or were quoted as experts 111 times, their links to military
> firms were disclosed only 13 of those times. The report focuses largely on
> Stephen Hadley, who served as national security adviser to President George
> W. Bush. During the debate on Syria, he appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News
> and Bloomberg TV. None of these stations informed viewers that Hadley
> currently serves as a director of the weapons manufacturer Raytheon that
> makes Tomahawk cruise missiles widely touted as the weapon of choice for
> bombing Syria. He also owns over 11,000 shares of Raytheon stock, which
> traded at all-time highs during the Syria debate. We speak to Kevin Connor
> of the Public Accountability Initiative, a co-auth!
> or of the report.
>
> Full transcript at:
> http://www.democracynow.org/2013/10/18/the_military_industrial_pundits_conflicts_of
>
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