The Media is the Messenger

[don]

Distinguished Australian journalist John Pilger offers a devastating critique of the news media’s slavish subservience to government, 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.”


In this 1:36:41 documentary, 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.”


The final segment focuses on Wikileaks and includes a pre-arrest interview with Julian Assange.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsmMX...layer_embedded

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Re: The Media is the Messenger

The series is definitely worth seeing, but the Wikileaks portion is quite weak.

Perhaps my understanding is flawed, but I cannot recall any instances whatsoever where the leaked Afghanistan data had anything to do with the MIC. Where is the link between telegraph style terse descriptions of dead bodies found and money laundering? The link between a video of a helicopter gunship shooting and MIC laundering money through Colombia into the US?

Assange doesn't do himself any favors with that self promoting piece despite all Pilger can do.

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Re: The Media is the Messenger

I agree. I put that in the lede to bracket Pilger's timeline.