'A Higher Loyalty'

An excerpt from Against the Corporate Media

Over at the-Pipeline.org we today begin running excerpts from our forthcoming book, Against the Corporate Media: 42 Ways the Press Hates You. The introductory essay, “A Higher Loyalty,” is by editor Michael Walsh.

“Even in a work of this length, it is of course impossible to touch upon every aspect of the current state of the media. From the point of view of one who has labored in it, off and on, for more than half a century, it is parlous and getting worse. Ask someone with less than ten years’ experience in the field and you may well—very likely will—get a different answer: that it’s liberated, responsive, unfettered. Still, my work as a historian has convinced me of the truth of Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr’s famous axiom, plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.”

Please click here to read the entire excerpt. Remember: no matter how much you hate the mainstream media, it isn’t enough.