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5 Reasons that Both Mainstream Media – and Gatekeeper “Alternative” Websites – Are Pro-War

by WashingtonsBlog

Why There Is So Much Pro-War Reporting

There are five reasons that the mainstream media and the largest alternative media websites are both pro-war.

1. Self-Censorship by Journalists

Initially, there is tremendous self-censorship by journalists.

A survey by the Pew Research Center and the Columbia Journalism Review in 2000 found:

Self-censorship is commonplace in the news media today …. About one-quarter of the local and national journalists say they have purposely avoided newsworthy stories, while nearly as [...]

‘I couldn’t believe CNN was making me put what I knew to be government lies into my reporting.’

Guardian.co.uk

A former CNN correspondent defies threats from her former employer to speak out about self-censorship at the network

In late March 2011, as the Arab Spring was spreading, CNN sent a four-person crew to Bahrain to produce a one-hour documentary on the use of internet technologies and social media by democracy activists in the region. Featuring on-air investigative correspondent Amber Lyon, the CNN team had a very eventful eight-day stay in that small, US-backed kingdom.

By [...]

We cast an avaricious eye towards their oil fields…

4-11-2012

AMERICA’S DEPENDENCY ON MIDDLE EAST OIL
…Given an ever-increasing demand for oil, because of its[America's] “addiction”, and given its limited domestic sources of crude oil, the U.S. will remain dependent on imported oil well into the future. U.S. policymakers, by their past and present actions since the end of WWII in pursuing this addiction, have apparently concluded that the nation’s interest in oil and other ‘strategic’ resources outweighs the nation’s avowed values [...]

London Book Fair criticised for inviting only state-approved Chinese writers

The London Book Fair is facing claims it has bowed to pressure from Chinese authorities by failing to invite dissident and exiled writers to next month’s event and choosing only state-approved authors.

Bei Ling, an exiled poet and essayist, has written to the British Council, the organisers of the cultural programme of the fair, which is one of the biggest international publishing events in the world, expressing his surprise over its plans to [...]

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5 Reasons that Both Mainstream Media – and Gatekeeper “Alternative” Websites – Are Pro-War

‘I couldn’t believe CNN was making me put what I knew to be government lies into my reporting.’

London Book Fair criticised for inviting only state-approved Chinese writers

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