Robert Parry's New Book about LBJ's Coverup of Nixon Scam on Vietnam..
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My Partner is reading Parry's new book on Nook (available on Kindle, also) and said it reads like a "spy thriller."
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DiEugenio on Parry’s New Book
March 30, 2013
Exclusive: America’s political dysfunction stems, in large part, from the Right’s success in distorting U.S. history and the mainstream news media’s failure to counter those false narratives. That has left the nation adrift in a faux reality, a crisis described by Robert Parry’s new book and analyzed by Jim DiEugenio.
By Jim DiEugenio
Robert Parry is one of the growing number of former MSM journalists who departed his mainstream employers and today makes his home on the Web. The contents of his book, America’s Stolen Narrative ,informs us to a large degree why he departed. But beyond that, his book demonstrates why Parry’s work is still exceptional and unique in his new milieu.
Many people, including myself, thought that once the so-called “liberal blogosphere” firmly established itself as an alternative to the fading MSM, it would then provide a real opportunity for a revival of genuine honest journalism. Journalism that would be unfettered by artificial boundaries imposed from the censoring pen of the editor’s office.
In other words, there was a real chance that the Internet could be the new 1960’s alternative press, the kind of underground truth-telling papers that Angus Mackenzie wrote about in his little book Secrets. As Mackenzie noted, these papers – exemplified by Warren Hinckle’s Ramparts and Art Kunkin’s LA Free Press – were so dangerous to the Establishment that the CIA established a program to counter and neutralize them.
By contrast, the problem with our so-called “liberal blogosphere” is that, with very few exceptions, there is no need to counter, let alone, neutralize these New Media outlets. One can pretty much declare that, for whatever reasons, the so-called New Media was stillborn.
And this completely exposes the CW (Common Wisdom) for what it is: A way to mollify the public into accepting things as they are, never questioning how it got that way. One way the CW does this is by shoving crimes and scandals under the rug, thereby, letting the perpetrators not only get away with criminal offenses, but allowing them to operate in the political system as if nothing had ever happened.
Much More At:
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/03/30/dieugenio-on-parrys-new-book
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the people of the USofA (us masses), but that he apparently didnt violate the rules of the eilite as they did nothing when they found out.
It was/is more important to the elite not to upset the masses than to prosecute Nixon's treason, pursue who killed Pres Kennedy, what really happened on Sept. 11, etc.
There is a whole different set of rule for the elite.
Maybe something is good that more comes out...but HOW MUCH MORE needs to COME OUT...before SOMETHING's DONE!
(forgive my shouting...but...how much longer can this go on?)
Anyway...like you
It's what we do..
