{"id":57800,"date":"2021-05-12T06:54:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T11:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57800"},"modified":"2021-05-12T06:54:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T11:54:12","slug":"corporate-medias-war-to-snuff-out-independent-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57800","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Media\u2019s War to Snuff Out Independent Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2021\/05\/12\/corporate-medias-war-to-snuff-out-independent-journalism\/\">Corporate Media\u2019s War to Snuff Out Independent Journalism<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Journalist Jonathan Cook\u2019s searing talk at the International Festival of Whistleblowing, Dissent and Accountability on Saturday on the counterattack from legacy media.<\/strong><span id=\"more-62946\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"_ytid_32722\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YOfLsj_qh4w?enablejsapi=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;cc_load_policy=0&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;loop=0&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;fs=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;controls=1&amp;color=red&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=2&amp;theme=dark&amp;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-origwidth=\"860\" data-origheight=\"484\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/tag\/jonathan-cook\/\"><strong>By\u00a0Jonathan Cook<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/\"><em>Jonathan-Cook.net<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-52104\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jonathan_250-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>I<\/strong>\u00a0wanted to use this opportunity to talk about my experiences over the past two decades working with new technology as an independent freelance journalist, one who abandoned \u2013 or maybe more accurately, was abandoned by \u2013 what we usually call the \u201cmainstream\u201d media.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back over that period, I have come to appreciate that I was among the first generation of journalists to break free of the corporate media \u2013 in my case,\u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 and ride this wave of new technology. In doing so, we liberated ourselves from the narrow editorial restrictions such media imposes on us as journalists and were still able to find an audience, even if a diminished one.<\/p>\n<p>More and more journalists are following a similar path today \u2013 a few out of choice, and more out of necessity as corporate media becomes increasingly unprofitable. But as journalists seek to liberate themselves from the strictures of the old corporate media, that same corporate media is working very hard to characterise the new technology as a threat to media freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>This self-serving argument should be treated with a great deal of scepticism. I want to use my own experiences to argue that quite the reverse is true. And that the real danger is allowing the corporate media to reassert its monopoly over narrating the world to us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Mainstream\u2019 Consensus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I left my job at the\u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em> newspaper group in 2001. Had I tried to become an independent journalist 10 years earlier than I did, it would have been professional suicide. In fact, it would have been a complete non-starter&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate Media\u2019s War to Snuff Out Independent Journalism Journalist Jonathan Cook\u2019s searing talk at the International Festival of Whistleblowing, Dissent and Accountability on Saturday on the counterattack from legacy media. By\u00a0Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net I\u00a0wanted to use this opportunity to talk about my experiences over the past two decades working with new technology as an independent [&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":[6963,3484,17165,462],"class_list":["post-57800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-consortium-news","tag-dissent","tag-jonathan-cook","tag-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57800","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=57800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57801,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57800\/revisions\/57801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}