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And most of them are considered, at best, marginal by the mainstream media. ...
Edited by ex-CBS producer Kristina Borjesson, "Into the Buzzsaw" is a collection of essays, mostly by serious journalists excommunicated from the media establishment for tackling subjects like the CIAs role in drug smuggling, lies perpetuated by the investigators of TWA flight 800, POWs rotting in Vietnam, a Korean war massacre, the disenfranchisement of black voters in Bushs election, bovine growth hormones dangers and a host of other unpopular issues. ... The media has already branded them unreliable, so their charges are extremely unlikely to be taken seriously.
A similar thing happens to other progressive media critics. Its not that the media isnt interested in media stories – see the blanket coverage of Tina Browns foibles at Talk. ... While not quibbling with their facts, most media people tar them as alarmists or unrealistic utopians. ... "
The routine maginalizing of media critics is one reason "Into the Buzzsaw" is so important. ... And while plenty of lefty writers have excoriated media monopolies, rarely has the precise way that corporate ownership and intimidation warp newsroom values been made quite so explicit. ... But thats just one weak spot in an otherwise appallingly convincing book, a book that suggests that the truth about our media-military-industrial complex might go beyond even our paranoid imaginings.
Beyond the specifics of each story, "Into the Buzzsaw" is about how the elite sector of the media to bestows the imprimatur of truth on its own interpretations of the world.
Approximate Word count = 1587
Approximate Pages = 6.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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