WOULD MAINSTREAM REPORTERS LIKE TO BE MY DEEP THROAT? - Perdaily.com

WOULD MAINSTREAM REPORTERS LIKE TO BE MY DEEP THROAT? - Perdaily.com:

WOULD MAINSTREAM REPORTERS LIKE TO BE MY DEEP THROAT?

 (Mensaje se repite en Español)

Back in June of 2016 I was standing outside of Wendy Greuel's campaign headquarters on election night after her failed attempt to win retiring Congressman Henry Waxman's seat. Both national and local reporters were also there to hear her concession speech.

To pass the time I thought I would go around and ask the reporters present the following question, which I never thought they would answer: Given your unparalleled access to those in power at places like the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), are there good news stories about LAUSD or other news subjects that you would like to report but can't get past your editors? To a reporter, the answer was in the affirmative.

We now have either 5 or 6 corporations- depending on your source- that control virtually all media in the United States. We have arrived at a point where reporters are so muzzled by their corporate owners and editors preconceived, distorted, and often downright false dominant narratives that there is no longer the possibility of reporting anything that even remotely resembles a truly fact-based news story.

While I have railed against this kind of "reporting" that I have often found reminiscent of the state run media in the old Soviet Union, I also have been empathetic enough to put myself in the position of a reporter with a family, a mortgage, and kids going to college and understand why these WOULD MAINSTREAM REPORTERS LIKE TO BE MY DEEP THROAT? - Perdaily.com: