A News Revolution Has Begun

It has been the observation by many of us concerned with real news, that the mainstream media has served the function of repressing or distracting from the real news on political fronts. As good as they can be in some areas, the mainstream media often serve only as a propaganda tool when it comes to things of political importance. It is no surprise, then, that more and more people are searching out alternate news sources. And internet fulfils this need very well. Once again, I call your attention to the links at left and below for some good sources (at my other blog, link at right). Other sources you will discover on your own.

The Indian writer Vandana Shiva has called for an "insurrection of subjugated knowledge". The insurrection is well under way. In trying to make sense of a dangerous world, millions of people are turning away from the traditional sources of news and information and to the world wide web, convinced that mainstream journalism is the voice of rampant power. The great scandal of Iraq has accelerated this. In the United States, several senior broadcasters have confessed that had they challenged and exposed the lies told about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, instead of amplifying and justifying them, the invasion might not have happened.

Such honesty has yet to cross the Atlantic. Since it was founded in 1922, the BBC has served to protect every British establishment during war and civil unrest. "We" never traduce and never commit great crimes. So the omission of shocking events in Iraq - the destruction of cities, the slaughter of innocent people and the farce of a puppet government - is routinely applied. A study by the Cardiff School of Journalism found that 90 per cent of the BBC's references to Saddam Hussein's WMDs suggested he possessed them and that "spin from the British and US governments was successful in framing the coverage". The same "spin" has ensured, until now, that the use of banned weapons by the Americans and British in Iraq has been suppressed as news.

Great article by Pilger again, read on...