The Creed of Objectivity Killed the News
By Chris Hedges
The symbiotic relationship between the press and the power elite worked for nearly a century. It worked as long as our power elite, no matter how ruthless or insensitive, was competent. But once our power elite became incompetent and morally bankrupt, the press, along with the power elite, lost its final vestige of credibility. The press became, as seen in the Iraq war and the aftermath of the financial upheavals, a class of courtiers.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24550.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=power+elite
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chris+Hedges
The symbiotic relationship between the press and the power elite worked for nearly a century. It worked as long as our power elite, no matter how ruthless or insensitive, was competent. But once our power elite became incompetent and morally bankrupt, the press, along with the power elite, lost its final vestige of credibility. The press became, as seen in the Iraq war and the aftermath of the financial upheavals, a class of courtiers.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24550.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=power+elite
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chris+Hedges
rudkla - 2. Feb, 05:31
