Archive for January 9th, 2008

Apparently, I am not alone in my disgust at the western media with its Disneyesque view of the world events.  Someone else has been thoughtfully pursuing the causes of this phenomenon.

I recall when news reporting really WAS more objective and showed more sides. It has been loosing that characteristic for a good while now…it has been leaching away particularly fast since the “fall” of the Communist “Bear”….as these lectures say, because we NEEDED to be wildly enthusiastically “free press” in reaction to the unilateral sort of coverage of the Warsaw Pact nations.

This and other very good stuff from a series of lectures. They don’t seem to be numbered, but you can tell the order because of the number of views…the oldest, starting bit has the most views, and so forth.

I really recommend this, folks. If American Apathy to self-informing about the world and our place and behavior in it is the Original Sin of our Democracy, here is your chance to fight the good fight! Don’t let me….don’t let America and her Founding Fathers Down.

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=mediamcgill&p=r