More Reviews of the PBS Interview

Mike Whitney sees Reverend Wright’s interview on PBS as a knockout punch to the bully boys of the corporate media. He goes further, and gets to the gist of the propaganda mill’s antipathy towards Wright:

No one disputes Wright’s summary of US history. His comments have simply been lifted, just to beat up on Barack Obama; everyone knows that. Just like everyone knows that the corporate media destroy political enemies, which means anyone who poses a challenge to America’s unelected corporate oligarchy. That’s why it is so frustrating to hear people say, “The media is not doing its job.”

That’s just plain wrong; the media IS doing its job. It’s cheerleading the country to war, it is diverting attention from the main political and economic issues of the day, and it is destroying the system’s political enemies, actual or potential.

Indeed, the corporate media’s behavior is eerily reminiscent of the Roman circuses. While the Empire crumbled at home and rampaged abroad, early propagandists seduced the Roman public to cheer as the Christians were fed to the lions and political dissidents were crucified by the Roman Imperial state.

Meanwhile, David Winer wonders why the blogosphere has fallen silent after the groundbreaking sit down with Bill Moyers. For Winer, watching Wright gave him:

pride in being an American, and shame at the same time, for coming from a country so willing to objectify and villify this person before checking out whether the characterization was accurate. Even the supposedly courageous and thorough NY Times calls his oratory “racist” in an editorial in today’s paper. Based on what? I’ve watched the sermons that have been excerpted; if these are racist, then every other preacher in the US is racist too.

~ by admin on April 28, 2008.