osted by Alexander Higgins - September 7, 2012 at 1:37 pm
Journalists subject to massive CNN censorship help expose the disturbing trend of merging government funded advertisements in with regular news coverage.It is no secret that viewership of the corporate media news outlets are on an epic downward spiral.
But what many don’t realize is as the viewership of those programs decline so do the revenues from advertisers paying for commercials on those TV programs.
The trend has forced these news outlets to turn to a new sources of funding to keep their organizations alive.
Among those sources of income are partnerships with governments who are taking an ever increasing role in funding state-sponsored news.
These partnerships have given rise to the merging of government propaganda with regular news which is then displayed on air for the public to watch with no disclaimers or transparency about the relationship.
The backlash of these partnerships is editorial staff increasingly putting pressure on reporters to engage in self-censorship on behalf of the governments and corporations who pay for such pre-packaged news advertisements.
Yesterday Constitutional lawyer and author Glenn Greenwald published a shocking expose on the Guardian detailing massive CNN censorship that was born of such a relationship.
Former Reporter Amber Lyon Exposes Massive Censorship at CNN
Amber Lyon: I saw first-hand that these regime claims were lies, and I couldn’t believe CNN was making me put what I knew to be government lies into my reporting.
I saw first-hand that these regime claims were lies, and I couldn’t believe CNN was making me put what I knew to be government lies into my reporting.
- Amber Lyon
The revelations in that article come from Amber Lyon and several other current and former CNN journalists.
Here’s an RT report on the censorship.
Rest can be read here:
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/09/07/reporters-expose-cnn-business-airing-government-sponsored-tv-news-181261/
