Ethical journalism is quite dead, at least in the mainstream sense. The idyllic image of a man or woman going out there to the source of an issue, investigating it from every angle, and then presenting a report of the events from various points of view without bias is virtually non-existent. Instead, we have to live in a world where media is fed to us, curated by corporate interest and political bias, while alternative media has its hands full combating the censorship and the bullshit of some of the agenda that’s being forced onto us. We live in a world where the information that is readily available to us through television and even the most popular spectrums of the Internet is cherry-picked and littered with double standards, as we condemn acts of execution and torture while committing them in our own backyard. While politics hides under words like liberty, free-will and freedom, democracy is being destroyed and every effort is made to curate not only what we learn and know, but how we think. Of course, there are people fighting that. Take, for example, Project Censored. The premise of the organization is simple: to unveil “News That Didn’t Make The News” – specifically if that news is disruptive to corporate talking points and highlight glossed-over facts. Every year, they release the 25 most censored stories of that year – and the stories of the previous year are already quite telling by their headlines. “US Military Seeks To Balance Budget On Backs Of Disabled Veterans”, highlighting the neglect of surviving soldiers after their service in US war mongering, and the forcing-out of disabled veterans to make room for able-bodied fighters at the cost of these veterans losing their earned benefits; and, as the statistics show, these disabled veterans are very unlikely to reintegrate into society and become “stable, functioning members” of the corporatocracy. Then, there’s how “Restorative Justice Turns Violent Schools Around”, where a school that had become infamous for violence and mistreatment, the John Paul Jones Middle School, made a drastic turn for better after it underwent a humanizing make-over, removing barred windows and metal detectors, while replacing aggressive security guards with empowerment coaches, who taught non-aggressive, non-coercive methods of conflict resolution and anger management. - See more at: ift.tt/1DK3B6t DatSyn News - News That Did Not Make The News
Posted on: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 11:36:18 +0000