As negotiations begin in Geneva between Iran, Germany and the U.N. Security Council permanent members, Juan Cole debunks the prevailing myths about Iran. Myths that could not endure if U.S. news outlets took journalism seriously and challenged U.S. officialdom on Iran.
Steve, I think the corpress takes journalism very seriously – dead seriously, in fact.
There seems to be this perception among many media watchdog groups that these propaganda outlets don’t commit these acts of commission and omission out of venal and vicious intent – that they’re due to ignorance or laziness or some other reason aside from simple lust for power and money.
If you have facts that support this contention, please relate them. You can always point to the occasional decent, or excellent, work that pops up from time to time – but aren’t they the exceptions that prove the rule?
I try to be an empiricist, and decades of reading, listening and watching these enablers of the powerful (and thus members of that cancerous clique) lead me to the eminently logical conclusion that they mean to do us harm in order to do themselves great benefit.
I guess that’s the Vulcan in me.