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African Americans must learn the truth about socialism that they may preserve their culture, get rid of poverty, ignorance and disease, and help America live up at least to a shadow of its vain boast as the land of the free and the home of the brave.
\n— W.E.B DuBois<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Message is the Truth!<\/strong><\/p>\n

He who controls the media, controls the world. And with media, that is everything — curriculum design, product manuals, white papers, legislative treatises, novels, history books, magazines, on-line, off-line, textbooks, music, film, TV, the entire ranch, including The Press.<\/p>\n

It was early when I got into Gannett papers, Pulitzer owned papers, small town mom and pop “chains, LA Times<\/em> Syndicate, and others. Chilling, really, the naivete I had as a J student in Tucson, working the Arizona Daily Wildcat<\/em> and other lab papers. Seems like I thought I was a warrior for truth, and that was on occasion true, but in the end, the powers that be in big or small locales control the message because the newspaper owners and editors usually are embedded in the community: Chamber of Commerce, School Board, Rotary, Knights of Columbus, and more.<\/p>\n

There is not much freedom, and you better get the quotes right, and you better not pry too much around the edges.<\/p>\n

No more competing newspapers in small towns. No more weeklies. No more radical and hokum papers. There are no more papers. Well, a few, but in this Zoom scroll world, and this antisocial shit storm of the social networks (sic), we have pretty threadbare conversations. Digital stories are worthless for that, getting the juices flowing. It’s all curated and personalized, these digital platforms and news aggregators; and there is just so much shit out there on the Internet the quagmire is part of the lesson plan and lessons learned — no one is right. Bullshit. Some great sources, in the digital world, but they are read by a few hundred, maybe a thousand or so. Writing rants in the comments sections, well, not sure the impact that has on anything other than ego building and endless criticism. There are a million know-it-all’s out there for every decent piece of news or feature.<\/p>\n

But reading ain’t enough, since we need robust parsing and discourse, and exactly what it is we are asked to read and comprehend and take hook, line and sinker, as the prevailing truths of our time, or the situational truths of our day.<\/p>\n

It is A Sickness: Shifting Baseline Disorder\/Disease?<\/strong><\/p>\n

So much shifting baseline disorder, and so many truths lifting and tossed and remixed. Without education, that is, table and coffee talk, what have, it is a one-way line of communication. Even these little rants need some feedback, or better yet, discourse. Ain’t gunna happen. Here, today, on Democracy Now<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

And this is something that the AP and other news organizations really need to think about. Who are we going to let work in our newsrooms? How are we going to deal with \u2014 I mean, if you have, for example, a whole generation of students who went to Black Lives Matter protests last summer, and then they come and take my journalism class at Stanford or another university, and they say, \u201cYou know what? I want to be a journalist,\u201d and their lives live on TikTok and Instagram and all that, are all these journalists not \u2014 are these students not going to be able to be journalists now? I mean, are there not top managers in news organizations who were in anti-Vietnam protests in the \u201960s, and their lives live on in Instagram?<\/p>\n

Or is this specific to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Which, as you noted, the coverage is shifted the very week that Emily got caught up in this. You had the bombing of the AP bureau in Gaza. You had a very visceral reaction by the American public to the Israeli attacks in Gaza, in a way that you did not have in 2014 when 2,200 Palestinians were killed. You didn\u2019t see this kind of reaction. You had, on the A1 of The New York Times on Sunday, a story about the brutality of life under Israeli occupation. These are all very unusual. Look on The New York Times today in terms of a letter from Gaza that really calls into question a lot of the Israeli narrative about Hamas and what\u2019s really happening in Gaza. I mean, there\u2019s just \u2014 there\u2019s a major shift going on.<\/p>\n

— Stanford journalism professor Janine Zacharia<\/a>, a former Jerusalem bureau chief for the Washington Post<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You Can’t Talk about this in Polite Company!<\/strong><\/p>\n

To distract from Gaza slaughter, Israel lobby manufactures antisemitism freakout. Grayzone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"media<\/p>\n

Mark Ruffalo apologizes for posts on Israel: \u2018It\u2019s inflammatory, disrespectful and is being used to justify antisemitism\u2019<\/p>\n

\"mark<\/p>\n

Emily Wilder\u2019s Firing Is No Surprise: AP Has Always Been Right-Wing — Source<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Following<\/p>\n

On February 10, Abby Martin filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging a Georgia law requiring all independent contractors to sign a pro-Israel pledge, promising to not participate or advocate the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israeli crimes.<\/p>\n