Access Journalism At Its Most Pernicious
Caitlin Johnstone- Modern western national security journalism is mostly just writing what a government official tells you to write and then calling it a “scoop” which you got from a nameless “source”
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
New York Times editors changed a recent headline from “As Ukraine’s Fight Falters, It Gets Even Harder to Talk About Negotiations” to “As Ukraine’s Fight Grinds On, Talk of Negotiations Becomes Nearly Taboo”, apparently for no other reason than because “grinds on” advances the information interests of the US empire better than “falters”.
………………..
https://thealtworld.com/caitlin_johnston/access-journalism-at-its-most-pernicious