{"id":38005,"date":"2018-09-20T05:53:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T10:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38005"},"modified":"2018-09-20T05:53:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T10:53:21","slug":"hold-the-front-page-the-reporters-are-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38005","title":{"rendered":"Hold the Front Page, the Reporters are Missing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hold the Front Page, the Reporters are Missing<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Photo Source Lisa Abitbol\/Nieman Foundation for Journalism | CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The death of Robert Parry earlier this year felt like a farewell to the age of the reporter. Parry was \u201ca trailblazer for independent journalism\u201d, wrote Seymour Hersh, with whom he shared much in common.<\/p>\n

Hersh revealed the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and the secret bombing of Cambodia, Parry exposed Iran-Contra, a drugs and gun-running conspiracy that led to the White House. In 2016, they separately produced compelling evidence that the Assad government in Syria had not used chemical weapons. They were not forgiven.<\/p>\n

Driven from the \u201cmainstream\u201d, Hersh must publish his work outside the United States. Parry set up his own independent news website Consortium News, where, in a final piece following a stroke, he referred to journalism\u2019s veneration of \u201capproved opinions\u201d while \u201cunapproved evidence is brushed aside or disparaged regardless of its quality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although journalism was always a loose extension of establishment power, something has changed in recent years. Dissent tolerated when I joined a national newspaper in Britain in the 1960s has regressed to a metaphoric underground as liberal capitalism moves towards a form of corporate dictatorship. This is a seismic shift, with journalists policing the new \u201cgroupthink\u201d, as Parry called it, dispensing its myths and distractions, pursuing its enemies.<\/p>\n

Witness the witch-hunts against refugees and immigrants, the willful abandonment by the \u201cMeToo\u201d zealots of our oldest freedom, presumption of innocence, the anti-Russia racism and anti-Brexit hysteria, the growing anti-China campaign and the suppression of a warning of world war.<\/p>\n

With many if not most independent journalists barred or ejected from the \u201cmainstream\u201d, a corner of the Internet has become a vital source of disclosure and evidence-based analysis: true journalism.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hold the Front Page, the Reporters are Missing Photo Source Lisa Abitbol\/Nieman Foundation for Journalism | CC BY 2.0 The death of Robert Parry earlier this year felt like a farewell to the age of the reporter. Parry was \u201ca trailblazer for independent journalism\u201d, wrote Seymour Hersh, with whom he shared much in common. Hersh […]<\/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":[5847,5493,3484,5524,9745,7743,462,496,7203,5340],"class_list":["post-38005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-corporate-dictatorship","tag-counterpunch","tag-dissent","tag-groupthink","tag-independent-media","tag-john-pilger","tag-journalism","tag-mainstream-media","tag-robert-parry","tag-seymour-hersh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38005","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=38005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38006,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38005\/revisions\/38006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}