Whatever faults and flaws such journalism suffers from, I quote from one hate fan, “it’s a damn sight better than the state-controlled and state-manipulated news media in China”.
Maybe she is right. But at least we all know media outlets in China are either owned or controlled and monitored by state authorities. It may be argued, and I do argue, it’s far more insidious when news outlets claim to be independent and objective when they are not.
This is how a 2017 article in the Columbia Journalism Review wrote about him (Michael Hayden): “It doesn’t matter what cable channel you prefer (CNN, MSNBC, or Fox News), what talk show you watch (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Real Time with Bill Maher), or website you read (The New York Times, The Washington Post, or The Wall Street Journal), Hayden is everywhere, commenting on the day’s news, while inevitably being portrayed as Mr Reasonable: a post-partisan straight shooter who will tell you How It Really Works.
“But members of the media who play along with this fantasyland portrayal of Hayden should be embarrassed.”
Lawfare Executive Editor Susan Hennessey announced this week she’s taking a job at the [Justice] department’s National Security Division
“Lawfare began in 2010 as a national security blog, though by the Trump era it had become an unabashed mouthpiece for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Central Intelligence Agency, and partisan enough to marinate in the anti-Trump fever swamps.” [from the Wall Street Journal]
Maybe she is right. But at least we all know media outlets in China are either owned or controlled and monitored by state authorities. It may be argued, and I do argue, it’s far more insidious when news outlets claim to be independent and objective when they are not.
This is how a 2017 article in the Columbia Journalism Review wrote about him (Michael Hayden): “It doesn’t matter what cable channel you prefer (CNN, MSNBC, or Fox News), what talk show you watch (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Real Time with Bill Maher), or website you read (The New York Times, The Washington Post, or The Wall Street Journal), Hayden is everywhere, commenting on the day’s news, while inevitably being portrayed as Mr Reasonable: a post-partisan straight shooter who will tell you How It Really Works.
“But members of the media who play along with this fantasyland portrayal of Hayden should be embarrassed.”
Lawfare Executive Editor Susan Hennessey announced this week she’s taking a job at the [Justice] department’s National Security Division
“Lawfare began in 2010 as a national security blog, though by the Trump era it had become an unabashed mouthpiece for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Central Intelligence Agency, and partisan enough to marinate in the anti-Trump fever swamps.” [from the Wall Street Journal]
