Tag: journalism

BSNews is Back!

BSNews has been away for quite a while due to, as they say, unforseen circumstances. But I’m very happy to say we’re back! At a time of unprecedented censorship of independent journalism, especially of pro-Palestinian voices, of righteous condemnation of the terrorist state of Israel and the rogue regime in Washington, and of the holding to account of corrupt western […]

The deeper truths journalists are blind to

The problem is not just that foreign reporting is being stripped of financial resources as the media find it harder to make a profit from their core activities. It is, as Ed Herman and Noam Chomsky pointed out long ago in their book Manufacturing Consent, that the corporate media is designed to reflect the interests of power – and the corporations that control our media are power. They select journalists through a long filtering process (school, university, journalism training, apprenticeships) precisely designed to weed out dissidents and those who think too critically. Only journalists whose worldview aligns closely with those in power reach the top.