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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Jul 20, 2019
On Contact host, Chris Hedges talks to Kerry-Anne Mendoza, editor-in-chief of The Canary. Created just five years ago, the alternative socialist website is financed by subscribers and advertisers with 3.5 million monthly viewers. It has been accused of “hyper-partisan” owning to its mainly pro-Labor party content, and The Daily Telegraph, an elitist newspaper, called it “the maddest left-wing website in the world.”
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Chris Hedges and Matt Taibbi: The Deep Rot That Infects American Journalism, Part 2
Caleb Maupin: Neoliberalism: A Study in Evil
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Brilliant interview. I was making notes this morning throughout this excellent conversation as I listened (using stop, replay, pause etc.) ~ tagging my responses, for further comment….on completion I counted something like 52 headings…..!
If each was a paragraph I’d likely have written a short essay….so very hard to summarise briefly & do justice to this fine discourse.
All I’ll say then, is it’s time to call the bluff unequivocally and roll out a consistently robust, open-source response to this ideologically motivated, profit-driven, neo-liberal hegemonic tyranny that purports to be the champion of universal freedoms.
Profit is fine, if and when it is proportionate; & serves an ecological calculus that increases species diversity, improves habitats and enhances human well-being. Eudaemonia for all, is not an impossible aspiration; it is a spiritual necessity. A decent life and a wholesome death ~ what else can we expect reasonably or ask for? Certainly not ruthless guile and greed to make us more stupid than wise.
Journalism is closely aligned with history, & that is an intellectual discipline; access to knowledge is not a business, it is a community service ~ neither is philosophy a ‘privileged’ elitist luxury….it is an essential prerequisite to civilized moral existence.
Let’s climb out of the obsolete coal mine and bathe our baby with appropriate care and due diligence.
Thanks for your wonderful commentary, as always, David.
One of the main reasons I started blogging back in 2005 on another site, later here in 2007, was that the corporate media wasn’t doing their job.