© Farouk Asvat
The media in the United States is completely
puerile and parochial, to put it mildly:
NPR: is now a Neutered Public Radio.
PBS: is a Proscribed Broadcast System
(PBS) which is also largely patriotic - as so many of its programmes are
sponsored by the Koch brothers, Boeing and General Motors. So it is hardly likely to be critical of the
United States.
BBC
America is absolutely putrid
- one news programme for instance spent 20 minutes on some sports field
that was still using the old flip-over boards to display the score.
ABC
CBS
NBC
are all more concerned with local issues, meaning completely regional community issues, rather than even a perspective of events in America - every evening its about cops raiding some place, somebody being arrested, somebody being charged, about a forest or building fire in the vicinity - always only about the city the station is situated in; inevitably ending with some piece about health; about what the latest study shows: how donuts may be good for you - find out why at 11; or about fats being bad for you - find out why during our prime time news, and of course finally rounding off with some cute piece about a baby or a pet. And the weather is always read out as if the network was actually dispensing rain or sunshine or fog for the next day or week. During the weeks of the Baltimore killing and the protests, there was hardly a mention of the events - on any of the regional news broadcasts.
Democracy Now
is the only North American medium (radio broadcast & internet site) that covers
international issues and examines local and world events with a critical
perspective, (though it too devotes a large proportion of programmes to its
American audience - nowhere in the world are people so concerned about the
finer points of the law, and it seems especially about paying their taxes and
obeying the minutiae of the law) - this applies especially to its liberal
audience, which considers itself rather radical and well-informed.
BBC World Service
no longer broadcasts to the USA on shortwave, medium wave or fm. One can only receive it via satellite or the
internet. But of course BBC World Service
has also deteriorated substantially since the first war against Iraq, and even
more so after the invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan and the Muslim world in general.
(Of course, the initial reason for setting
up the BBC by the British government was to control the strikes and the left in
Britain).
Al Jazeera
has been prevented from broadcasting its multimedia site over the internet -
this by AT&T - which has refused to relay the programmes, as has all the
other carriers. (Remember Chile - where AT&T
also had a role in overthrowing the elected government of Salvador Allende). AT&T stopped carrying Al Jazeera just
before the military coup in Egypt that overthrew the elected government of the Muslim
Brotherhood - just a few days after John Kerry visited Egypt and handed over 2
billion US dollars to the army - and not to the elected government. All the elections and referendums endorsed
the Muslim Brotherhood, making it quite obvious that the people supported the
Muslim Brotherhood by a clear majority (- elections monitored and confirmed as
legitimate by international media, organisations and observers).
Most Americans , especially those
considering themselves enlightened or liberal or who read a lot, just do not seem
to have the capacity for critical thinking, and are easily duped by the
official version dished out by the regime via the supposedly free media. This was especially evident when so many supposedly
well-informed liberals found the military coup in Egypt completely justified!
as explained by the mass media.
During the Glasnost / Perestroika period
initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian journalists visiting the United States,
especially the offices of the New York
Times, Washington Post and the
main networks, commented: at least in Russia we know we have censorship.
And of
course MSN, Google
and Yahoo all prioritise the absolutely banal,
irrelevant, lowest common denominator nonsense as news.
So where is the democracy? and where is
the free speech?
©
farouk asvat
SILENCE IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.
work in
progress
posted 24.06.2015
original composed: 2012.
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