Copyrighted Image? DMCA | Back in the 20th century, it was easy to see the US and the West as engaged in a great struggle of freedom against the Soviet Union and communist states. This was no doubt an optimal state of affairs for the Anglo-American power elite as there was little question about the veracity of Western programming. "That's the way it is," Walter Cronkite said. He was enunciating a major dominant social theme of the Anglo-American mainstream media. If Cronkite said it, you could believe it. How long ago that seems.
The Internet and the fall of communism have eroded the moral certainties of Western mainstream news. When covering the economy or military ventures, Western mainstream media often presents only part of the story -- and that is easily understood if one checks alternative 'Net reports on the same issues. |