Polecam bardzo ciekawy felieton napisany przez Paula Craig Robertsa na stronie -
http://rense.com/general84/fidf.htm - o tytule "Difficulty Of Being An
Informed American" (Jak trudno jest być dobrze poinformowanym Amerykaninem).
W swoim tekście wymienia on media, które poleca. Znaczny akcent pada na informacje online. Nie ukrywa, że chcąc być dobrze poinformowanym, trzeba poświęcić temu trochę czasu (skąd ja to znam
).
Twierdzi, że kanały takie jak CNN, czy FoxNews, czy gazeta NewYorkTimes są mediami propagandowymi i mają na celu robienie wody z mózgu, informując widzów o jedynie słusznych poglądach (rządowych).
Najciekawszy, moim zdaniem, fragment z tego felietonu wklejam poniżej:
Cytat: |
(...) Americans are still subjected to Fox "News" and CNN propaganda piped into airport waiting rooms, doctors' offices, and exercise centers
People ask me where they can get reliable information. I tell them that their goal cannot be reached without their commitment of time.
People who have access to television services that provide English language foreign broadcasts, such as Iran's Press TV, Russia Today, or Al Jazeera, can get get news and insights from those parts of the world demonized by the US media.
The BBC World Service still reports facts while covering itself by providing the views of the US, UK, and Israeli governments.
Both the Asia Times and Israeli newspapers, such as Haaretz can be read online in English. There are other such newspapers, and all of them provide information that Americans will never see in their own media. Any American newspaper that was as truthful about the Israeli government as Haaretz would be closed down.
The only US print source with which I am familiar in which some honest reporting can be found on a regular basis is the McClatchy papers.
Americans addicted to print media must turn to alternative newspapers, which tend to be weekly or bi-weekly. However, the news and commentary provided are often superb..
Alternative newspapers are often the children of people motivated by a sense of justice and the love of truth. Such people have become an endangered species in the American "mainstream media." The free press Americans have today is online and in the alternative media.
The function of the "mainstream media" is to sell products and to brainwash the audience for the government and interest groups. By subscribing to it, Americans support their own brainwashing. (...) |