The battle for control of our minds – and the invaluable role of independent journalism
Journalists like myself were the first to break free of corporate media servitude. Now we face a backlash to disappear us by the very media establishment we threaten
The true costs of the West’s corporate media system have been hidden from view. It entails restricting control over information dissemination to a corporate elite. It depends on an advertising model that makes us the product, not the truth. And it necessarily promotes an economic model of endless consumption that, as should be all too clear, is destroying the planet.
Here is a short extract from a talk I gave about how journalists like myself were the first to break free of corporate media servitude, and how we now face a backlash to disappear us by the very media establishment we threaten:
My full talk can be watched here:
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I can’t imagine life without independent journalism. You not only expose the lies we are told but also the dirty web of contacts and influences that lie behind the lies. You help us keep our BS detectors honed and our scepticism fully activated. Thank you.
Mr. Cook,
I remember that talk, how much I enjoyed it and through it saw an insightful mind and honest heart. This, naturally, was reinforced by researching your story.
Funnily enough, I've joined the diaspora of "independent journalists" as a geopolitical opinion writer with the sole purpose of exposing the evil inherent in the "Anglo-American Empire", to use Carrol Quigley's book title as a descriptor.
Through my journey, I'm learning to write. I remain happily jealous of the talents of others like yourself, or Patrick Lawrence, or Chris Hedges, to inspire me to improve.
I regularly, thankfully cite your articles as they cross topics in which I believe the small readership I serve would take interest.
Thank you for your writing.
Good luck, sir.