Where Were the Wall Street 'Perp Walks' in 2011? - Danny Schechter, Al Jazeera
Where Were the Wall Street 'Perp Walks' in 2011?
By Danny Schechter, Al Jazeera
01 January 12
As every media critic learns, the worst sin of our press is not its blatant biases, or crimes of commission, but rather the pervasive patterns of omission; what's left out!
Already, with two weeks to go, the Associated Press has crossed the finish line with the top choice of the newspapers it serves. Perhaps in the outdated spirit of Mark Twain's famous dictum that: "There are only two forces that can carry light to all corners of the globe - only two - the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press on earth", their pick for story of the year is the killing of Osama bin Laden.
The AP can't bring itself to label it for what it was - a state-sponsored assassination.
As ever, the mainstream/lamestream - call it what you will - media tails after people in power and promotes/validates their great achievements, even when it was an extra-judicial murder in the dead of night.
Institutional power is their main beat and they beat it to death with every deadline and every headline.
There is no utterance by any political hack - like most of the GOP presidential menagerie - that goes unreported.
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