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(Notice The wording wierdness may be from translation)
On the Wrong Side of History
by Abid Ullah Jan
(Tuesday 12 April 2005)
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"The corporate 'mainstream' media itself is responsible for the worsened climate for freedom of the press because the tyrants they served for so long now want the same kind of subservient attitude and submissive media to continue toeing their line."
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The beauty of the New York Times and most of its fellow “mainstream” newspapers is that they do the right assessment only to reach the wrong conclusion.
Nicholas D. Kristof article, “A Slap in the Face,”[1] in the New York Times (April 12, 2005) is the latest and most appropriate example of this trend.
Very few critics of the so-considered mainstream media would as accurately describe the vanishing public trust in its reporting and analysis as Mr. Kristof. However, he closes the argument with a grave misconception and an utterly wrong conclusion as usual.
He sums up his whining over public's lack of interest in the four months house arrest of NBC Journalist, Jim Taricani, in these words: “If one word can capture the public attitude toward American journalists, I'm afraid it's ‘arrogant.’"
He goes on to conclude: “Unless we can recover the public trust… we'll wake up one day to find ourselves on the wrong side of history.”
If Kristof and his fellow mainstreamers are still sleeping, it does not mean that they are not on the wrong side of history.
It doesn’t mean that the public shun them just because they are 'arrogant.' That's what they are. But the public has shunned them only because they present lies of their the US administration as facts and facts on the ground as fiction.
Public can deal with arrogance but not lies and outright deception. Kristof’s fellow journalists, who are facing government’s wrath in the form of up to 18 months for protecting their sources, are actually facing the same monstrous system and an invisible tyranny which they have been propping and supporting all along. Best of luck to them now.
http://world.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/14158/
---HAHAHA Best of luck to them now...HAHAHAHAHA---
On the Wrong Side of History
by Abid Ullah Jan
(Tuesday 12 April 2005)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"The corporate 'mainstream' media itself is responsible for the worsened climate for freedom of the press because the tyrants they served for so long now want the same kind of subservient attitude and submissive media to continue toeing their line."
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The beauty of the New York Times and most of its fellow “mainstream” newspapers is that they do the right assessment only to reach the wrong conclusion.
Nicholas D. Kristof article, “A Slap in the Face,”[1] in the New York Times (April 12, 2005) is the latest and most appropriate example of this trend.
Very few critics of the so-considered mainstream media would as accurately describe the vanishing public trust in its reporting and analysis as Mr. Kristof. However, he closes the argument with a grave misconception and an utterly wrong conclusion as usual.
He sums up his whining over public's lack of interest in the four months house arrest of NBC Journalist, Jim Taricani, in these words: “If one word can capture the public attitude toward American journalists, I'm afraid it's ‘arrogant.’"
He goes on to conclude: “Unless we can recover the public trust… we'll wake up one day to find ourselves on the wrong side of history.”
If Kristof and his fellow mainstreamers are still sleeping, it does not mean that they are not on the wrong side of history.
It doesn’t mean that the public shun them just because they are 'arrogant.' That's what they are. But the public has shunned them only because they present lies of their the US administration as facts and facts on the ground as fiction.
Public can deal with arrogance but not lies and outright deception. Kristof’s fellow journalists, who are facing government’s wrath in the form of up to 18 months for protecting their sources, are actually facing the same monstrous system and an invisible tyranny which they have been propping and supporting all along. Best of luck to them now.
http://world.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/14158/
---HAHAHA Best of luck to them now...HAHAHAHAHA---
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