How could corporate journalists get away with their lies? Archived Message Posted by mike on October 19, 2019, 12:06 pm Alison Banville writes “How could corporate journalists get away with their lies if they were consistently held to account by an awakened audience? This is the job of every responsible citizen, not just a few independent activists like myself who have taken up the pen in order to expose the rotten nexus that is setting the world aflame for profit and power. It has to stop. And Syria has been the field upon which the endgame has played out, testing every one of us to stand up and declare our allegiances. Thoreau wrote in 1849 that slavery called upon every person to declare their opposition to it and to act upon that moral stance even if it meant imprisonment. He stated that the issue divides nations, communities, families, and even the individual, separating ‘the diabolical in him from the divine.’ And so it is with Syria. This conflict has tested even seasoned media activists and found them wanting: Media Lens have refused to support Vanessa Beeley, a journalist embodying everything they have pleaded for in their books and online output for almost twenty years. They could not bear the heat of the fire that Vanessa lives with every day for even a moment, and so they have helped to suppress the voices of Syrians, ironically aiding the very forces they have railed against for so long. They folded when it truly mattered, unlike their ally John Pilger who publicly and unequivocally declared his support for Vanessa from the start without hesitation. When the truth is at stake our actions tell us who we really are.” More: https://www.globalresearch.ca/how-could-corporate-journalists-get-away-with-their-lies-truth-about-syria/5692308 Message Thread: How could corporate journalists get away with their lies? - mike October 19, 2019, 12:06 pm Re: How could corporate journalists get away with their lies? - Alison Banville October 20, 2019, 11:31 am Re: How could corporate journalists get away with their lies? - Ed October 20, 2019, 6:43 pm Thanks - Allison is perceptive and frames the issue accurately. - Shyaku October 22, 2019, 10:22 am   Searching