Corporate Reporters Tell Lies For A Living
Apr 23rd, 2008 at 7:34 am by Susie
Glen Ford of the Black Agenda Report. Go read it all:
The 41 signers of an open letter denouncing ABC’s farcical conduct during the most recent presidential debate may have thought they were doing the right thing - but they managed to send the wrong message. Although there is no doubt that George Stephanopoulos and Charles Gibson made fools of themselves and their corporate employers in the “worst” debate of the season, the signers failed to place last week’s televised travesty in the context of the rapid extinction of any semblance of professional journalism among corporate media. In expressing hope that corporate media will “return to serious journalism” during the general election debates, the letter gives the impression that last week’s debacle was an aberration - when, in fact, nonsense and lies posing as “news” has become the norm.
