This excerpt from Project Censored’s State of the Free Press, 2024, explains how important news stories are compromised by lies, misdirection and propaganda at the service of elites.
An excerpt from Project Censored’s State of the Free Press 2024 discusses how propaganda, lies, and misdirection in the service of elite interests could compromise important news stories. An excerpt from Project Censored’s State of the Free Press 2024 discusses how wealthy interests ‘ use of lies, misdirection, and propaganda can compromise important news stories.
This excerpt from Project Censored’s State of the Free Press, 2024, explains how important news stories are compromised by lies, misdirection and propaganda at the service of elites.
The media failed to fulfill the information responsibilities they were assigned in a representative democracy; for instance, they did not question the manipulation of the voting procedure executed by George Santos. Peter Phillips, the director of Project Censored from 1996 to 2010, referred to this situation as “News Abuse”. The role of corporate and government media in deteriorating the state of democracy in America is highlighted by how complacent they have become. Investigating the spread of corporate and government manipulation (in its various incarnations – both widespread and directed at particular people/groups) is the goal of studying News Abuse. Analyzing it is the first step in comprehending the perilous political situation we are in, and the negative conversations that have caused horrendous repercussions for freedom of speech and journalism. Taking a look back at the preceding 12 months, one can see that Phillips’s idea of News Abuse is unfortunately still applicable. The corporate press provided sensationalistic details regarding certain events, but did not investigate the powerful individuals working in the background. The Ohio Train Incident: Insufficiencies of Official Supervision and Business Press. On February 53rd, 2023, a Norfolk Southern cargo train, carrying 150 freight cars, including five tankers with vinyl chloride, a hazardous, flammable Class Two gas associated with cancer, crashed in East Palestine, Ohio, just near the Ohio – Pennsylvania frontier. Industry lobbying caused the railroad to be excluded from the “highly hazardous flammable train” class, which necessitates stricter safety rules.
