{"id":31748,"date":"2018-03-01T06:55:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T11:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31748"},"modified":"2018-03-01T06:56:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T11:56:04","slug":"experts-for-the-people-shut-out-by-the-mass-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31748","title":{"rendered":"Experts for the People\u2014Shut Out by the Mass Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/03\/01\/experts-for-the-people-shut-out-by-the-mass-media\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Experts for the People\u2014Shut Out by the Mass Media<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p>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\u2019ve learned is that they go to guests that are connected with the established powers\u2014such as think tanks in Washington, D.C. that work on \u201cthe military-industrial complex\u201d policy (to borrow President Eisenhower\u2019s words) and somehow lean toward more warmongering (e.g. NPR and the U.S.-Iran relationship) or backing more weapon systems (such as a new nuclear bomb arsenal and more F-35s and aircraft carriers).<\/p>\n<p>You won\u2019t be hearing from MIT Professor Emeritus Ted Postal on the chronic failures of the anti-ballistic missile program (spending $13 billion this coming year).<\/p>\n<p>Whether it is NPR, PBS, the network news programs, the\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1890474969\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Sunday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0news interview shows and too often the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>, Associated Press and the\u00a0<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0their interviewees are the defenders of the status quo or those with corporatists\u2019 viewpoints.<\/p>\n<p>These news outlets seem oblivious to the blatant economic conflicts of interest inherent in groups such as the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute and professors who moonlight with corporations. These interviewees have economic and ideological axes to grind that are not disclosed to the general viewers, listeners and readers, when they are merely described as \u201cexperts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are real experts and specialists, with no axe to grind, who are so ignored by the media that they have almost become nonpersons, despite their past proven records of achievements for the public interest, and for the people\u2019s well-being.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some examples of experienced people whose veracity and honesty you can take to the press and media outlets:<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts for the People\u2014Shut 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\u2019ve learned is that they go to guests that are connected with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120,5493,3847,512,1426,655,9581],"class_list":["post-31748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-counterpunch","tag-mass-media","tag-media","tag-misinformation","tag-propaganda","tag-ralph-nader"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31750,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31748\/revisions\/31750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}