"If You Can't Dazzle Them With Brilliance, Baffle Them With Bull." WC Fields
28/05/2013 by Don Quijones
The theme of the week here on Raging Bullshit appears to
be the fourth estate and its shameful betrayal of the values it is
supposed to uphold and the public it is supposed to represent (it was
hardly a conscious editorial decision on our part — we’re not that
organized; it just kind of played out that way).
It therefore seems fitting that our Film of the Week should be Shadows of Liberty, an insightful and hard-hitting documentary that explores how the U.S. media sold its soul to the country’s biggest corporations — and its implications for democracy and liberty in the shadow of the country that was once the Land of the Free, Home of the Brave.
Contributed by Don Quijones, a freelance writer and translator based in Barcelona, Spain. His blog, Raging Bull-Shit,
is a modest attempt to challenge some of the wishful thinking and scrub
away the lathers of soft soap peddled by our political and business
leaders and their loyal mainstream media.
“In a newspaper like El País it is no longer possible to criticize the main Spanish banks. And you have to be very careful when talking about the Government, in case it gets angry: its benevolence is needed in order to avoid bankruptcy.”
The above words are from Enríc González, one of Spain’s most respected journalists. For well over two decades Gonzaléz worked for Spain’s biggest selling daily El País, during which time he served in numerous capacities, including as its London, Paris, Washington, New York and Rome correspondent.
http://www.testosteronepit.com/home/2013/5/26/the-financial-takeover-of-our-newspapers.html
It therefore seems fitting that our Film of the Week should be Shadows of Liberty, an insightful and hard-hitting documentary that explores how the U.S. media sold its soul to the country’s biggest corporations — and its implications for democracy and liberty in the shadow of the country that was once the Land of the Free, Home of the Brave.
The Financial Takeover of “Our” Newspapers
Sunday, May 26, 2013 at 6:20PM
“In a newspaper like El País it is no longer possible to criticize the main Spanish banks. And you have to be very careful when talking about the Government, in case it gets angry: its benevolence is needed in order to avoid bankruptcy.”
The above words are from Enríc González, one of Spain’s most respected journalists. For well over two decades Gonzaléz worked for Spain’s biggest selling daily El País, during which time he served in numerous capacities, including as its London, Paris, Washington, New York and Rome correspondent.
http://www.testosteronepit.com/home/2013/5/26/the-financial-takeover-of-our-newspapers.html
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