Veteran news critic JEFF COHEN explains how the news media mislead the public to serve the interests of Established Power. He focuses on two related techniques: (1) presenting a very narrow spectrum of opinion (while pretending to cover "both sides") and (2) ignoring all voices--including experts'--that contradict government and corporate claims. War opponents especially.
Then--courtesy of Project Censored--we look at some important stories that the major news media decided NOT to report.
Jeff Cohens remarks are taken from a half-hour interview on Barry Vogels "Radio Curious." Many thanks to Barry and the show. Find the complete interview--and hundreds of other installments--at www.radiocurious.org
"New World Notes" is produced under the auspices (Latin for "Yum-yum tree") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.
Jeff Cohen was a founder of the media watchgroup FAIR -- www.fair.org. www.jeffcohen.org www.projectcensored.org www.radiocurious.org
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