{"id":388885,"date":"2018-12-12T20:22:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T19:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/corporate-media-doing-its-job\/"},"modified":"2018-12-12T20:22:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T19:22:20","slug":"corporate-media-doing-its-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/corporate-media-doing-its-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Media Doing its Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_107854\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107854\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/12\/45508327924_ce92371937_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/12\/45508327924_ce92371937_z.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/12\/45508327924_ce92371937_z-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source Dmitry Dzhus | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The deletion of events that don\u2019t fit with the reigning ideology is part of how ruling class-owned media works to manufacture mass consent to unjust hierarchy.<\/p>\n<p>I spent much of last week in a cable-television-equipped U.S.-American apartment with CNN, MSNBC, and FOX News at my fingertips. As I inhabited this abode, flicking between sports and cable news, a political crisis of the state was unfolding in one of the world\u2019s richest and most powerful states.\u00a0 France was gripped by an historic working- and middle-class uprising.\u00a0 In the biggest popular unrest seen there since May of 1968, many hundreds of thousands of <em>Gilets Jaunes\u00a0<\/em>(\u201cyellow vests\u201d) took to French roadways and other public space in their fourth straight week of explosive mass protests. As <a href=\"http:\/\/newsjunkiepost.com\/2018\/12\/07\/are-the-gilets-jaunes-todays-sans-culottes\/\">Gilbert Mercier wrote last Friday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFrom the Island of La Reunion to the Napoleonic symbol that is the Arc de Triomphe, through big and small towns, as well as the usually bucolic countryside in France, there is something special in the air: the smell of fires on barricades, the smoke of tear gas, the anger built upon decades of inequality, injustice and despair for most. Among the Gilets Jaunes, many understand intuitively that the current\u00a0democratic process is dead, and therefore the only option is the occupation of streets and roads. History usually moves at a snail\u2019s pace, but sometimes a series of events abruptly push societies to a breakdown, to the fascinating and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/12\/12\/blacking-out-the-yellow-vests-on-cable-news-corporate-media-doing-its-job\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Source Dmitry Dzhus | CC BY 2.0 The deletion of events that don\u2019t fit with the reigning ideology is part of how ruling class-owned media works to manufacture mass consent to unjust hierarchy. I spent much of last week in a cable-television-equipped U.S.-American apartment with CNN, MSNBC, and FOX News at my fingertips. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-388885","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\/388885","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}