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How To Be A Reliable 'Mainstream' Journalist
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2018/885-how-to-be-a-reliable-mainstream-journalist.htmlDate Written: 2018-11-08 Publisher: Media Lens Year Published: 2018 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX23118 A commentary on what is required to be a 'good' and 'reliable' journalist for the mainstream Western media. Abstract: -- Excerpt: For example, if you write about US-Iran relations, you need to ensure that your history book starts in 1979. That was the year Iranian students started a 444-day occupation of the US embassy in Tehran. This was the event that 'led to four decades of mutual hostility', according to BBC News. On no account should you dwell on the CIA-led coup in 1953 that overthrew the democratically-elected Iranian leader, Mohammad Mossadegh. Even better if you just omit any mention of this. You should definitely not quote Noam Chomsky who said in 2013 that: 'the crucial fact about Iran, which we should begin with, is that for the past 60 years, not a day has passed in which the U.S. has not been torturing Iranians.' Subject Headings |