By PATRICE GREANVILLE CLICK TO WATCH VIDEO HERE or a long time we have been…
MEDIA SCOUNDRELS
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Donald Trump, The Democratic Party’s Dilemma And “Brokered Conventions”
by Rowan Wolf20 minutes read=By= Michael Roberts [dropcap]T[/dropcap]hat the mainstream media helped to create the political monster (and…
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DISPATCHES FROM STEPHEN LENDMAN Their names don’t matter. Earlier US supported anti-Soviet Afghan mujahadeen…
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HERBERT SCHILLER—The fundamental similarity of the informational material and cultural messages that each of the mass media independently transmits makes it necessary to view the communications systern as a totality. The media are mutually and continuously reinforcing. Since they operate according to commercial rules, rely on advertising, and are tied tightly to the corporate economy and its worldview, both in their own structure and in their relationships with sponsors, the media constitute an industry, not an aggregation of independent, freewheeling informational entrepreneurs, each offering a highly individualistic product. By need and by design, therefore, the images and messages they purvey, are, with few exceptions, constructed to achieve similar objectives, which are, simply put, profitability and the affirmation and maintenance of the private ownership consumerist society.
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Land of False Idols: Ben Bradlee’s Not Such ‘A Good Life’
45 minutes readJAMES DiEUGENIO—If the relationship with Kennedy brought Bradlee prestige and status in the world of journalism, the deal he helped broker for Newsweek made him filthy rich for life. Phil Graham rewarded him with a finder’s fee: not in cash, but in Post stock options. The stock of the Post company would soon skyrocket, especially after it went public in 1971. As Bradlee once said, Graham’s generosity made him a millionaire many times over. He ended up buying a house that occupied almost an entire city block, while he owned another in the Hamptons.