{"id":35120,"date":"2018-06-15T06:22:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T11:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35120"},"modified":"2018-06-15T06:22:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T11:22:27","slug":"how-the-corporate-media-enslave-us-to-a-world-of-illusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35120","title":{"rendered":"How the Corporate Media Enslave Us to a World of Illusions"},"content":{"rendered":"

How the Corporate Media Enslave Us to a World of Illusions<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Photo by Mohamed Nanabhay | CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Nazareth.<\/em><\/p>\n

For several years now, I have been writing regular posts on my\u00a0blog<\/a>\u00a0with one end in mind: to help open a door for readers and encourage them to step through. I select issues, usually those that dominate western media coverage and represent a consensus that we might term the Great Western Narrative, and try to show how this narrative has been constructed not to inform and enlighten but to conceal and deceive.<\/p>\n

It is not that I and the many other bloggers doing this are cleverer than everyone else. We have simply had a chance \u2013 an earlier one \u2013 to step through that door ourselves, because of a jarring life experience that the Great Western Narrative could not explain, or because someone held the door open for us, or more usually because of a combination of the two.<\/p>\n

My personal awakening<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is easy for me to identify my own process of awakening. It began with the dislocation of moving to Nazareth and being immersed in someone else\u2019s narrative \u2013 that of the Palestinians. Then, I faced for the first time in my career as a journalist an impenetrable wall of opposition, even from my own former newspaper, the Guardian, as I tried to explain that counter-narrative. In fact, I found that the Palestinian narrative was invariably misrepresented as anti-semitism. These were dark years of disillusionment and the loss of a professional and ideological compass.<\/p>\n

It is in such a moment of bereavement \u2013 deprived of the consolation of the Great Western Narrative \u2013 that one searches for a door to enlightenment. It can be a long journey to find it. My door appeared while reading about the Propaganda Model of Ed Herman and Noam Chomsky in their book Manufacturing Consent<\/a>, as well as stumbling across a website called\u00a0Media Lens<\/a><\/p>\n

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