Does Media Lens think that honest journalists and media commentators should resign from the mainstream?
Thats for those individual professionals to decide, not for us. But consider this. The media has covered up the quarter of a million dead from the last Gulf War; the hideous results of economic sanctions on Iraq, with a million dead; the Western installation and support of dictators around the world, and so on. Former UN Assistant Secretary-General Denis Halliday resigned in protest at sanctions against Iraq, sacrificing a career lasting 34 years with the UN. His successor, Hans von Sponeck, sacrificed a 30-year career. It’s quite clear to us that the Western media has also played a crucial role in suppressing the truth about the effects of sanctions from the public, thereby allowing the horror to continue relatively unchallenged. So when might journalists consider resigning? Presumably no one would argue it would have been okay to work for the Nazi press, or Pravda. Is there a point when journalists should take a stand against press corruption here? Let’s be clear that in our press, i
Does Media Lens think that honest journalists and media commentators should resign from the mainstream?