by Media Lens / January 22nd, 2021
Back in 2017, before WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange was silenced by Twitter, he used the platform to highlight an immutable truth:
‘The overwhelming majority of information is classified to protect political security not national security.’
Power hates being exposed. It hates having its inner machinations, its selfish priorities and ugly operations opened up to public scrutiny.
The omission of inconvenient facts, and the silencing of inadmissible viewpoints, are core features of the so-called ‘mainstream’ news media. Thus, it should be obvious by now why we always put ‘mainstream’ in quotation marks. Because, as increasing numbers of the public surely now recognise, the major news media are
‘The overwhelming majority of information is classified to protect political security not national security.’
Power hates being exposed. It hates having its inner machinations, its selfish priorities and ugly operations opened up to public scrutiny.
The omission of inconvenient facts, and the silencing of inadmissible viewpoints, are core features of the so-called ‘mainstream’ news media. Thus, it should be obvious by now why we always put ‘mainstream’ in quotation marks. Because, as increasing numbers of the public surely now recognise, the major news media are
not impartial, or fair, or balanced. Nor do they truly represent and reflect the concerns and priorities of the vast majority of
‘The overwhelming
majority of information is classified to protect political
security not national
security.’
Power hates being
exposed. It hates having its inner machinations, its selfish
priorities and ugly operations opened up to public
scrutiny.
The omission of inconvenient facts, and the
silencing of inadmissible viewpoints, are core features of
the so-called ‘mainstream’ news media. Thus, it should
be obvious by now why we always put ‘mainstream’ in
quotation marks. Because, as increasing numbers of the
public surely now recognise, the major news media are
not impartial, or fair, or balanced. Nor do they
truly represent and reflect the concerns and priorities of
The wheel starts to spin when a dude who spent his entire career doing everything
except climate journalism decides he’s going to be the one to do a Big Climate Journalism Moment. This moment can be an interview with a famous person, a huge piece in a fancy publication, or a documentary film executive produced by Michael Moore.
Because of the bigness of said moment, it is consumed by hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people. But because neither the author nor editor has not done much climate journalism before, however, the viral moment suffers from factual inaccuracies and misleading tropes.
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