The photograph above shows independent journalist, Vanessa Beeley and Shade Shhde whose three children, wife and mother were all killed in the massacre at Mhardeh, Syria – an outrage ignored by the West’s corporate media. Shade is giving Vanessa the bracelet his eldest daughter used to wear. This almost unbearably moving gesture is a grieving man’s way of demonstrating how much […]
What do large, perennial media like the Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, FOX, NBC, etc. all have in common? A handful of wealthy financial backers. This is precisely why you never see them crowdfunding or running donation drives to help pay their writers or keep their lights on. The same goes for government-sponsored media like the BBC, France 24, Deutsche Welle, Al-Jazeera, and RT.
Something quite extraordinary has been happening on Twitter. Corporate journalists have gone into meltdown after two British media analysts – known as Media Lens – tweeted some friendly advice to idealistic youngsters contemplating a career in journalism. Twitter is a social media forum much loved by corporate journalists – probably because media training hones their skills at pithy aphorisms and […]
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(ANTIMEDIA) The mainstream corporate media is visibly dying out in the United States and around the world — and their problems are about to get worse: Anti-Media just rolled out our new project, The Homepage of Independent Media.
‘False narratives and blatant lies continue to be put forth by the corporate media and lying “Human Rights” groups with ties to the CIA, US State Department and/or colour-revolution schemer George Soros…’ explains independent journalist Eva Bartlett. ‘In recent years, many books have been written on Syria, and with the exception of a few, they […]
The dramatic scenes in Istanbul over the weekend can almost be viewed as an illustration of the present Turkish state’s relationship with journalism in general. But even by current Turkish government standards, the literal invasion and takeover of leading opposition newspaper, Zaman, seems pretty radical. The government’s decision to take over management of the country’s biggest […]
Our Collective Duty is Very Simple: We Must Never Forget
By Mark Mondalek
Helen Thomas was a patriot.
“You have to believe in something,” she once told me, “Believe in democracy.”
Patriotism is, of course, a relative thing. Shamefully, it has almost become a dirty word these days, increasingly harbored by those who take the word of the government as though it were scripture; those who behave permissive of the Washington war machine; don’t doubt, don’t ask why.
