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Patrice Greanville, who founded the first radical media review—Cyrano's Journal— almost 50 years ago, has long berated the left for not paying enough attention to the construction of a robust alternative media system.
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Thanks for this post. My blood pressure can’t take watching Oliver (or the many others) spout their CIA talking points for long, but I appreciate you shining a light on this issue, as it is a vitally important one. The supposedly “liberal” & “hip” late night comedians shilling for capitalism and war demonstrates just how seamless our Western propaganda system actually is. From Hollywood movies & TV shows, to the “hip” comedians, to daytime talk-shows, and virtually all MSM radio, newspapers and magazines and web broadcasts – the same pro-capitalist/pro-war message is ubiquitous and mind numbingly present for “consumption” 24/7… Read more »
The last vid was hard to watch because of the beat in the background. I know that the young generation has to always have loud beats playing, everywhere they do and no matter what they’re doing, but it does work for me. I could concentrate on the boy’s message and gave up. I watched each of Dore’s vids, but not to their conclusion. I got his point. I just don’t enjoy listening to him talk like a toilet. And I don’t have to. But this is an important article. I’ve already linked to it in one of my blog posts… Read more »
A mistake I seem to make all of the time, as I did in the above comment, is to rush through typing and forget to finish my “can’t” and “doesn’t” and such so that the reader sees ‘can’ and ‘does’ instead. You can sort of tell from the context what I intended. Sorry though for the muddle. And that should have been ‘everywhere that kids go’, not ‘everywhere that kids do’.
Somewhere in Christ’s College, Cambridge, hangs a portrait of John Oliver that is getting more hideous by the week. His full-length hatchet job on Jill Stein a month or so before the 2016 general was stomach-churning,* and his subsequent shots at Maduro and Putin haven’t been much better. Has he done a hatchet job on Bernie or Tulsi yet? He really should. It’s right up his alley. Intellect and wit in service of plutocracy and empire. What a douche. *I hate to break it to John, but if Americans were genuinely required to vote for one of only two candidates,… Read more »