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OMG This This This This!
OMG This This This This! That’s right, I’m writing an entire goddamn article about a single tweet made by another political commentator. It probably won’t even be a long article, because the excellent Tim Black said it all. Call me lazy, I don’t care, this is the most interesting thing I’ve seen all day: “Last night, […]
Corporate Media: the Enemy of the People
Corporate Media: the Enemy of the People I detest the malignantly racist, sexist, narcissistic, and authoritarian pathological liar and bully Donald Trump on many different levels, and I share none of his sick world view, but the corporate media really is, well (to use Trump’s recurrent phrase), “the enemy of the people.” Here below is […]
What If There Were No Official Narratives?
What If There Were No Official Narratives? One of the weirdest things about the post-Iraq invasion world is how the mass media has actually gotten less accountable instead of more accountable for its reporting since that time. Right now in the UK there’s an amazingly viral smear campaign against Jeremy Corbyn running across all mainstream outlets, […]
American Mass Media and Punditry Remain a Dishonest, Militaristic Embarrassment
American Mass Media and Punditry Remain a Dishonest, Militaristic Embarrassment When it comes to U.S. presidents, experience has taught me to always assume the worst. Irrespective of what the winning candidate said on the campaign trail, a few things things tend to happen once they’re sworn into office. To name a few, we almost always […]
Twelve Tips For Making Sense Of The World
Twelve Tips For Making Sense Of The World In an environment that is saturated with mass media propaganda, it can be hard to figure out which way’s up, let alone get an accurate read on what’s going on in the world. Here are a few tips I’ve learned which have given me a lot of […]
America’s Troll Farm Media
America’s Troll Farm Media Photo by Porsche Brosseau | CC BY 2.0 Despite all the smoke and mirrors, most Americans seem to see where the stenographers of corporate capitalism are taking us. A recent Gallup poll found that while 84% of Americans see media as “critical” or “very important” to democracy, only 28% see the […]
The US Empire Is Acting Like A Desperate, Cornered Animal, Because That’s What It Is
The US Empire Is Acting Like A Desperate, Cornered Animal, Because That’s What It Is I love Americans. I get friendly flak from some of my more jaded lefty readers whenever I say that, because having to deal with the flaws of one’s own countrymen is a very different experience than appreciating them from afar, but […]
Experts for the People—Shut Out by the Mass Media
Experts for the People—Shut Out by the Mass Media Ever wonder how the television, radio and newspaper people select whom they are going to interview or get quotes from when they are reporting the news or producing a feature? I do. What I’ve learned is that they go to guests that are connected with the […]
The Great “Fake News” Scare of 1530
The Great “Fake News” Scare of 1530 Fake news has always been around for humor purposes, but the real “fake news” scares happen when the establishment is so used to getting away with lying, that any alternate narrative is demonized as factually false, irresponsible, and dangerous. “The Onion” was next to “The Economist” in the […]
US Hacking, Spyware Targets Include Mass Media, Phone, and Energy Companies
US Hacking, Spyware Targets Include Mass Media, Phone, and Energy Companies Posted on May 19, 2016 by Robert Barsocchini US corporate government wants to control and drain as much of the world as possible. Reuters, The Register, and others summarize some of its methods: “The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives …. giving the […]
Letter from Europe
Letter from Europe Dear Sir , Inside of 25 years I’ve observed the shift of the mass-media in Europe from somehow different and somehow independent /original and free as much the official media can be in this “democracy-capitalism” to a “European Media” which is absolutely identical and absolutely uniformity qua content, being different only the […]
The End of Ordinary Politics
The End of Ordinary Politics Archdruids may take vacations but politics never sleeps, and during the month that’s elapsed since the last post here on The Archdruid Report, quite a number of things relevant to this blog’s project have gone spinning past the startled eyes of those who pay attention to the US political scene. I’ll […]
The History of Hollywood: Propaganda for White Supremacy at Home and US Militarism Abroad
The History of Hollywood: Propaganda for White Supremacy at Home and US Militarism Abroad turtix | Shutterstock.com For more than a century American film has been one of the most important apparatus used for perpetuating American white supremacy and justifying American military adventures. Racism in film and white supremacy are so intricately interwoven into the fabric of America […]
How the Mass Media Controls Consensus Reality
How the Mass Media Controls Consensus Reality “The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.” — George Orwell “It’s not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true.” — Henry Kissinger “Whoever controls the media controls reality.” — Peter Jennings “When a well-packaged web of […]
