"Bernie Sanders is calling for a full
investigation of nuclear safety here."
Section
5 highlights the author's nearly three-decades-long association with and
emotional attachment to South Africa at both zenith and nadir points in time.
He was there when the wall of Apartheid finally fell, documenting it for
several media. Things may have not yet turned perfect, but
"At least in South Africa, leaders and the
press recognize the problem ["the looting continues"--the Beloved Country is not
yet "living happily ever after"] and speak out. Perhaps that's something that
politicians and financial leaders in the West, especially the United States,
can emulate."
In
Section 6, focusing in on the media, Schechter lauds the controversial news
network Al Jazeera on the launch of its offspring Al Jazeera English on its
tenth anniversary, 2010:
"The
Arabic language news channel that revolutionized news in the Arab World has
just marked its tenth anniversary and become once again the world's fifth
top-known brand.
and
for its use of native reporters rather than foreign correspondents from Western
countries.
"The
US bombed its offices once and considered repeating it. An Al Jazeera
journalist is being held at Guantanamo without charge."
"The
anglo-American hegemony of the big news cartels has for the first time a
challenger in the form of well-packaged professional network. Al Jazeera goes
on the air globally in English (but not yet in the U.S.A.) to offer another
perspective. . . One of their biggest catches was Sir David Frost, the
world-famous interviewer."
Ironically
"Qatar, the proprietor of al-Jazeera, is also our most important ally in the
Middle East."
From
this controversial issue the outspoken Dissector jumps to Helen Thomas:
"She may be a critic of Israel, but never
a hater of Jews."
And
a masterpiece of logical reasoning [by analogy]:
How can we expect Israelis and
Palestinians to reconcile if our media won't set an example by reconciling with
Helen Thomas?
In
the following blog, continuing on Thomas's debasement, he asks yet another
compelling questions:
"The
only issue on your table today is whether [the Society of Professional
Journalists] stands for the unabridged right of any journalist--any American--to
speak his or her opinion, on any subject, without fear of punishment or
retribution from any government, individual, private or professional
organization."
A
dissection of political campaigning in the post-Citizens United U.S.
follows:
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