How would have the
U.S. corporate media reported on the killing of the two African-Americans men
in cold blood last week in Minnesota and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as well as the
hundreds of arrests since then, had those events occurred in Venezuela? CNN’s reporting
of the killing of 5 police officers in Dallas is the exact antithesis of its
reporting on urban violence during the 2014 “guarimba” in Venezuela in which 6
national guardsmen were killed.
The centralization of ownership of the private media in the United States and elsewhere has become increasingly pronounced, at the same time that its reporting has become increasingly one-sided and monolithic. My blog seeks to expose this lack of objectivity and present alternative ideas that point in the direction of much-needed fundamental change.
Monday, July 11, 2016
BLACK LIVES MATTER: How the corporate media chooses to frame issues:
“Black Lives Matter”
has done nothing other than peacefully protest the killing of African-Americans
at the hands of the police. Instead of quoting Rudolph Giuliani and his ilk who
blame Black Lives Matter for the killing of the 5 Dallas police officers, why doesn’t
the media look carefully into the background of the assassin Micah Johnson, a veteran
of the Afghanistan-Iraq War? Could it be that the Afghanistan-Iraq War is more to blame for the death of
those Dallas policemen than the non-violent Black Lives Matter movement?
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