{"id":377931,"date":"2018-09-20T13:55:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T12:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-reporters-are-missing-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2018-09-20T13:55:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T12:55:49","slug":"the-reporters-are-missing-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-reporters-are-missing-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reporters are Missing \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" name=\"m_-851495763784099764yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537397000701_8932\"\/><a style=\"color: #000000;\" name=\"m_-851495763784099764yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537397000701_8934\"\/><a style=\"color: #000000;\" name=\"m_-851495763784099764yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537397000701_8938\"\/> <span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">So much of mainstream journalism has descended to the level of\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">a cult-like formula of bias, hearsay and omission<\/span>. Subjectivism is all; slogans and outrage are proof enough. What matters is \u201cperception,<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">\u201d says John Pilger.<\/span><br \/><span id=\"more-30285\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">By John Pilger<br \/><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><em>Special to Consortium News<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Pilger.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/John-Pilger-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-26910\" alt=\"\" width=\"82\" height=\"82\"  \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-26910\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/John-Pilger-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"82\" height=\"82\"  \/><\/noscript><\/a>The death of Robert Parry earlier this year felt like a farewell to the age of the reporter. Parry was \u201ca trailblazer for independent journalism\u201d, wrote Seymour Hersh, with whom he shared much in common.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Hersh revealed the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and the secret bombing of Cambodia, Parry exposed Iran-Contra, a drugs and gun-running conspiracy that led to the White House. In 2016, they separately produced compelling evidence that the Assad government in Syria had not used chemical weapons. They were not forgiven.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" name=\"m_-851495763784099764yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537397000701_8703\"\/> <span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Driven from the \u201cmainstream\u201d, Hersh must publish his work outside the United States. Parry set up his own independent news website Consortium News, where, in a final piece following a stroke, he referred to journalism\u2019s veneration of \u201capproved opinions\u201d while \u201cunapproved evidence is brushed aside or disparaged regardless of its quality.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" name=\"m_-851495763784099764yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537397000701_8709\"\/> <span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Although journalism was always a loose extension of establishment power, something has changed in recent years. Dissent tolerated when I joined a national newspaper in Britain in the 1960s has regressed to a metaphoric underground as liberal capitalism moves towards a form of corporate dictatorship. This is a seismic shift, with journalists policing the new \u201cgroupthink\u201d, as Parry called it, dispensing its myths and distractions, pursuing its enemies.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" name=\"m_-851495763784099764yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537397000701_8715\"\/> <span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Witness the witch-hunts against refugees and immigrants, the willful abandonment by the \u201cMeToo\u201d zealots of our oldest freedom, presumption of innocence, the anti-Russia racism and anti-Brexit hysteria, the growing anti-China campaign and the suppression of a warning of world war.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" name=\"m_-851495763784099764yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537397000701_8721\"\/> <span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">With many if not most independent journalists barred or ejected from the \u201cmainstream\u201d, a corner of the Internet has become a vital source of disclosure and evidence-based analysis: true journalism sites such as wikileaks.org, consortiumnews.com, wsws.org, truthdig.com, globalresearch.org,&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2018\/09\/19\/hold-the-front-page-the-reporters-are-missing\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So much of mainstream journalism has descended to the level of\u00a0a cult-like formula of bias, hearsay and omission. Subjectivism is all; slogans and outrage are proof enough. What matters is \u201cperception,\u201d says John Pilger. By John PilgerSpecial to Consortium News The death of Robert Parry earlier this year felt like a farewell to the age [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-377931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}