The university had an inside track when it came to booking the social critic and political activist, who is still active and engaged at 92, for its much-lauded Values for a New World series. Chomsky taught UVic linguistics professor Martha McGinnis when she was a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the mid-1990s, and he was one of the professors on the dissertation committee for her PhD. McGinnis remained in contact with the Manufacturing Consent author in the years following her graduation. When everything moved online amid the pandemic, it seemed like a good opportunity to ask him to speak at the co-production between UVic and the Anglican Diocese of Islands and Inlets of British Columbia, she said.
by Media Lens / January 22nd, 2021
Back in 2017, before WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange was silenced by Twitter, he used the platform to highlight an immutable truth:
‘The overwhelming majority of information is classified to protect political security not national security.’
Power hates being exposed. It hates having its inner machinations, its selfish priorities and ugly operations opened up to public scrutiny.
The omission of inconvenient facts, and the silencing of inadmissible viewpoints, are core features of the so-called ‘mainstream’ news media. Thus, it should be obvious by now why we always put ‘mainstream’ in quotation marks. Because, as increasing numbers of the public surely now recognise, the major news media are
Professor Noam Chomsky
Sapna Bhavnani
The march will begin on April 7, 2021 at the UN headquarters in New York City, NY, and end in Washington, D.C. They say revolutions start from home .. Home is where the legs are. My legs carry the stories as witness so they will never die. ” Sapna Moti BhavnaniWASHINGTON , DC, USA, January 23, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ The Sindhi Foundation will lead the Long Walk for Freedom, Nature, and Love in April 2021 to raise awareness for global human rights violations and climate change. For decades, the people of the Sindh province in Pakistan have endured horrific human rights abuses inflicted and silenced by the Pakistan state. Instances of enforced disappearance, extrajudicial killing, and forced conversion of indigenous Sindhis continue to rise each day.
‘The overwhelming majority of information is classified to protect political security not national security.’
Power hates being exposed. It hates having its inner machinations, its selfish priorities and ugly operations opened up to public scrutiny.
The omission of inconvenient facts, and the silencing of inadmissible viewpoints, are core features of the so-called ‘mainstream’ news media. Thus, it should be obvious by now why we always put ‘mainstream’ in quotation marks. Because, as increasing numbers of the public surely now recognise, the major news media are
not impartial, or fair, or balanced. Nor do they truly represent and reflect the concerns and priorities of the vast majority of
‘The overwhelming
majority of information is classified to protect political
security not national
security.’
Power hates being
exposed. It hates having its inner machinations, its selfish
priorities and ugly operations opened up to public
scrutiny.
The omission of inconvenient facts, and the
silencing of inadmissible viewpoints, are core features of
the so-called ‘mainstream’ news media. Thus, it should
be obvious by now why we always put ‘mainstream’ in
quotation marks. Because, as increasing numbers of the
public surely now recognise, the major news media are
not impartial, or fair, or balanced. Nor do they
truly represent and reflect the concerns and priorities of