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A sign of the future. As it becomes impossible to ignore the fact the planet is dying because the super-rich are asset-stripping it, even senior Murdoch journalists begin to notice the utter 'craziness' of what they are expected to do dumptheguardian.com/media/2019/may…
It now sounds like they're fans of Herman & Chomsky's Propaganda Model:
'The people at the top know what [the editorial line] is';
'Murdoch hires editors who are very much like him';
'If you’re senior you will know what the line is roughly and you will file stuff that fits'
'The people at the top know what [the editorial line] is';
'Murdoch hires editors who are very much like him';
'If you’re senior you will know what the line is roughly and you will file stuff that fits'
These journalists are still deluded about a 'golden era' of Murdoch journalism: 'Something has changed in the last six months.' No, denying the reality of a suicidal, neoliberal capitalism simply becomes harder and harder to do once they understand the stakes are so high
The scenario of journalists rebelling from within the corporate media - effectively the propaganda wing of our current ecocidal economic regime – as the truth starts to dawn on them had just been predicted by Media Lens in their latest, insightful alert medialens.org/index.php/aler…
