Distinguished Australian journalist John Pilger offers a devastating critique of the news media’s slavish subservience to the military, starting — as all well-informed accounts must — with the original spinmeister of the military/industrial complex, Edward Bernays, the man who coined the phrase “public relations".
Pilger peers behind the curtain of the modern media machine in a series of remarkable interviews with journalists, their bosses, their critics, and those who labor mightily to ensure their stories carry the “proper spin.”And reminds the journalists among us that it is on them [us] that government propagandists depend for disseminating their justifications for slaughter. And reminds the journalists among us that it is on them [us] that government propagandists depend for disseminating their justifications for slaughter
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