We're living in complicated times, where it's not enough any longer to just watch or read the news put out by once-respected mainstream news sources. We know that they've all become incredibly corrupted by their near monopoly status in most markets, their vulnerability to government pressure, and by reporters' loss of professionalism in the face of increasing job insecurity. Citizens need to become much more critical in their evaluation of news, to turn to multiple sources including non-mainstream and foreign news media, and to understand that in many cases what is being presented as objective news is actually little more than government propaganda.
We have to develop this ability to think and evaluate for ourselves, because it's clear that things are only going to get worse.
DAVE LINDORFF is a member of ThisCantBeHappening!, the uncompromised, collectively run, six-time Project Censored Award-winning online alternative news site. His work, and that of colleagues JOHN GRANT, JESS GUH, GARY LINDORFF, ALFREDO LOPEZ, LINN WASHINGTON, JR. and the late CHARLES M. YOUNG, can be found atwww.thiscantbehappening.net
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