Re: Why Media Lens don't use Vanessa Beeley as source Archived Message
Posted by brooks on May 24, 2019, 3:48 pm, in reply to "Re: Why Media Lens don't use Vanessa Beeley as source"
I think these things are matters of tactics and tentative judgement calls, not principle. Without getting into whether one has a moral obligation to use particular sources - and I say this as someone with deep respect and admiration for both Vanessa Beeley and Eva Bartlett who are both journalistic heroes in my book - I do think it's hyperbolic to say someone is being "silenced" because a tiny, two-person media analysis site doesn't use them as sources. CNN, BBC, Murdoch, etc, all contribute to silencing these two brave women. But it's a classic example of a circular leftist firing squad to make such charges against two superb journalists in the alternative online media world who have also been "silenced" in any meaningful sense by the establishment media, and who have also done extensive and stellar work exposing the lies and distortions of the propaganda system that helped destroy Syria and so many other countries. Doesn't that vastly outweigh what they are being criticized for here?
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