Thread by @caitoz

Western journalists learn very quickly that they can only advance their careers by promoting narratives that are favorable to US imperialism.

https://twitter.com/iainoverton/status/1389880460558454784

This is how propaganda occurs in the west. It's not that Jeff Bezos emails WaPo employees saying "Promote US wars!", it's that only reporters who protect imperialism see their careers rise. "If you believed something else, you wouldn't be sitting here."

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1161425971448373249?s=20

This is why you see blue-checkmarked reporters tweeting in service of imperialist narratives and smearing leftists and anti-imperialists. They're not (usually) being paid to tweet that stuff; they're promoting their career by signalling that they'll protect the establishment.

A journalist shouldn't need a Twitter presence to do journalism, but virtually all of them have one nowadays because it's like a second resumé. It's a way of showing people who might hire/promote you that you're the sort of person a plutocratic media outlet should want to hire.

That's why back when the empire was trying to extract Assange from the embassy, this site was FLOODED with blue-tick reporters falling all over each other in a mad scramble to say how gross and stinky he is and he should definitely be evicted. They were all saying, "Pick me!"

Well that's also what school is for: weeding out the servile conformists from those with undomesticated minds. That's why captains of industry like Carnegie and Rockefeller poured so much money into creating the modern schooling system.

https://twitter.com/websterspooner/status/1391147239704186884?s=20

It's always easier to flow with power than to flow against it. Entire societal infrastructures have been built to ensure that this is the case. Any effort which helps the powerful will be elevated and amplified, while any effort which inconveniences them falls into an empty void.