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It Is Not Enough For Journalists To See Themselves As Mere Messengers Without Understanding The Hidden Agendas Of The Message And The Myths That Surround It.

Many Journalists Become Very Defensive When You Suggest To Them That They Are Anything But Impartial And Objective. The Problem With Those Words "impartiality" And "objectivity" Is That They Have Lost Their Dictionary Meaning. They've Been Taken Over. "impartiality" And "objectivity" Now Mean The Establishment Point Of View.

This Is Total War. We Are Fighting A Variety Of Enemies. There Are Lots Of Them Out There. All This Talk About First We Are Going To Do Afghanistan, Then We Will Do Iraq... This Is Entirely The Wrong Way To Go About It. If We Just Let Our Vision Of The World Go Forth, And We Embrace It Entirely And We Dont Try To Piece Together Clever Diplomacy, But Just Wage A Total War... Our Children Will Sing Great Songs About Us Years From Now.

When Governments And Other Vested Interests Attack Me Personally I Usually Regard It As A Vindication, Otherwise They Would Use Facts. That's Why I Believe In The Wonderful Claud Cockburn Dictum, 'never Believe Anything Until It Is Officially Denied.' It Has Certainly Been My Experience.

Whenever A Journalist Says To Me, "oh, You Don't Understand, I'm Impartial, I'm Objective," I Know What He's Saying. I Can Decode It Immediately. It Means He Channels The Official Truth. Almost Always. That Protestation Means He Speaks For A Consensual View Of The Establishment. This Is Internalized.