MICHAEL WALSH MEDIA EXPERT: ‘Soldiers of Information’ as a description of journalists is an expression coined by a self-effacing international journalist. Whilst journalists themselves, from humble reporters to household name television anchormen admit their bias, viewers, readers and listeners allow themselves to be influenced by what they see, read and hear. In fact, the public in their innocence becomes town criers for editors, columnists and journalists who dupe them.

‘Some journalists who are actually quite open-minded and are aware of the real situation but have no choice but to write what is expected of them by their editors in order to make both ends meet and have a decent salary, says Fernando Casado, Spanish Analyst and Legal Expert.

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During a British Press Awards gala, a reticent Matthew Pariss addressed his audience: ‘Television lies. All television lies. It lies persistently, instinctively and by habit.  Everyone involved lies. A culture of mendacity surrounds the medium and those who work there live it, breathe it and prosper by it.  I know of no area of public life – no, not even politics – more saturated by professional cynicism.

If you want a word that takes you to the core of it, I would offer ‘rigged’.   ……… is it dishonest for the presenter to imply that the pundit in the chair is free to offer any opinion, when the truth is that 50 pundits were telephoned but only the fellow prepared to offer the requisite opinion was invited?’

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The leading journalist’s remarks were published in the Daily Mail, 21 April 1996. This should have been the end of his career and the Daily Mail’s circulation should have plummeted.

Neither happened so we have little choice but to assume that viewers, listeners and readers are equally aware yet are happy to be fooled time and time again. Bread and circuses.

Neil Clark mainstream journalist, columnist and broadcaster: ‘In all my years in journalism, I have never felt so ashamed of my profession. The job of the journalist is to ask questions. To find out the truth. To be absolutely fearless in following leads, wherever they may take you. Today in Britain, political journalism means just parroting the official War Party line. Suppositions are reported, day after day, as proven fact.’

Glenn Greenwald is a dissident whistle-blowing journalist: ‘The presstitutes are worse than the whores that they are. They never question the path to war; they only amplify it. Washington’s craven, cowardly, moronic vassal states in UK, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, and the rest of the EU/NATO idiots are, by their cooperation with Washington, begging for their own destruction. Nowhere in the West is there a sign of intelligence.’

Today, Israel’s genocide of the remnants of the still surviving Palestinian people these weeks is making the airwaves and the headlines:

‘I worked for the BBC’s English-language outlets as an editor and senior editor for 35 years. With regard to Israel and Zionism, any questioning of BBC impartiality would attract accusations of anti-Semitism and would certainly spell the end of one’s career, no matter how privately and confidentially such criticism is conveyed.’

‘The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.  Everywhere you go, chaos is left behind’ – Russia’s UN envoy to the US.

‘We have got to stop using the term mainstream (media). It is actually an extreme. What could be more extreme than institutions that incite rapacious wars, and deception about economic policy, what could be more extreme than that? There is nothing mainstream about that.’ ~ Veteran British Journalist and Broadcaster, John Pilger.

Is there a solution to the media’s monopoly? ‘Most sites on the Internet often have an audience that significantly exceeds the coverage of traditional media.’ – United Russia MP Dmitry Vyatkin.

‘The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controlling owners, a world of opportunities and equality. This is a utopia that we have been dreaming about and is a world in which each and every one of us are heroes of a destiny that we have in our hands.’ – Laura Chinchilla. PLEASE SHARE OUR STORIES ON SOCIAL MEDIA