This article was adapted from a presentation at the National Conference for Media Reform, held May 13-15 in St. Louis.
Media activism has achieved a lot. But I don’t believe there’s anything to be satisfied with — considering the present-day realities of corporate media and the warfare state.
War has become a constant of U.S. foreign policy, and media flackery for the war-makers in Washington is routine — boosting militarism that tilts the country in more authoritarian directions. The dominant news outlets provide an ongoing debate over how to fine-tune the machinery of war. What we need is a debate over how to dismantle the war machine.
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Part of the News, Information and Corporate Media panel with Phil Donahue, television host; Norman Solomon, Institute for Public Accuracy; Juan Gonzalez, New York Daily News; Naomi Klein, author and journalist (download mp3 – 45MB)