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Parenti addressed CBS (and all US media) by talking about Cronkite retirement statement, if anyone could be bothered to seek out voices that disagree with their comfortable narratives.
https://www.michael-parenti.org/book-inventing-reality
Contents:
Contents:
From Cronkite’s Complaint to Orwell’s Oversight
“Freedom of the Press Belongs to the Man Who Owns One”
Who Controls the News?
Objectivity and Government Manipulation
The Big Sell
Giving Labor the Business
“Liberal” Media, Conservative Bias
The Media Fights the Red Menace
Doing the Third World
For the New World Order
Propaganda Themes
Methods of Misrepresentation
Culture, Control and Resistance