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‘many US Commenters Have Never, – Stephen Kinzer by nurudeen181(m): 11:28pm On Jun 27, 2021 |
Much of Western media is a mixture of sensationalist
accusations and fear mongering about ‘enemy’ states. It
is difficult to find perspectives divorced from US foreign
policy, American journalist Stephen Kinzer has told RT.
I asked the author and journalist Stephen Kinzer how the
corporate media came to be so devoid of honest content
and discussed the rise of censorship by Big Tech.
Kinzer is a Boston Globe columnist and formerly a
correspondent for the New York Times. With over two
decades of experience reporting from around the world,
including areas being targeted by American imperialism,
Kinzer can offer a much needed critique on the state of
journalism today.
He started as an independent journalist in Central
America in the mid-70s, when few journalists were going
there, later reporting from Central Asia, Turkey, the
Caucasus, and Europe.
“I’m sometimes asked why I developed a different
perspective on the world than many other people who
comment in the American press, ” he told RT. “I always
seem to be the skunk at the foreign policy garden party.
Why is that?
“Upon reflection, I think it has to do with the way that I
learned about the world. Many people who write about the
world in the United States learned about the world the
same way: they went to international relations schools,
they went to work on congressional staffs, then they
worked at think tanks. And they’re very steeped in this
Washington-centric view of the world.”
Unlike such journalists and commentators, Kinzer learned
journalism by going places and writing firsthand what he
saw and heard.
“I learned about the world from the perspective of the
people who were the victims of American foreign policy. I
was in the places where people were getting bombed. I
saw American foreign policy from the perspective of the
rest of the world .”
Having myself learned journalism the same way , I
appreciated his words. And I had a followup question
about the concept of journalistic qualifications, something
my detractors have claimed I lack.
According to Kinzer, there are many qualifications for
being a journalist that are much more important than
what school you went to or what you studied.
“The most important one is independent thinking. The
great curse of our press in the West is willingness to
accept the official narrative ,” he said. |
Re: ‘many US Commenters Have Never, – Stephen Kinzer by nurudeen181(m): 11:29pm On Jun 27, 2021 |
they are our God, we believe whatever they say |
Re: ‘many US Commenters Have Never, – Stephen Kinzer by meobizy(f): 5:18pm On Jun 28, 2021 |
Hmm. That block of text killed my sex drive. |
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