Friday, December 20, 2002

Journalists are Under Fire for Telling the Truth
"In Canada, the situation is even worse. Canwest, owned by Israel Asper, owns over 130 newspapers in Canada, including 14 city dailies and one of the country's largest papers, the National Post. His "journalists" have attacked colleagues who have deviated from Mr Asper's pro-Israel editorials. As Index on Censorship reported, Bill Marsden, an investigative reporter for the Montreal Gazette has been monitoring Canwest's interference with its own papers. "They do not want any criticism of Israel," he wrote. "We do not run in our newspaper op-ed pieces that express criticism of Israel and what it is doing in the Middle East..."

The public must learn to simply stop reading or consuming the mass media and corporate media, except with a view to critiquing it. Alternative media of every kind, from club and association newsletters to independent websites, need to be developed and accessed.

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