by Media Lens / April 19th, 2021
Long before ‘the propaganda model’ flew off Edward Herman’s keyboard and into
Manufacturing Consent, the book he co-authored with Noam Chomsky, Leo Tolstoy had captured the essence of non-conspiratorial conformity:
One man does not assert the truth which he knows, because he feels himself bound to the people with whom he is engaged; another, because the truth might deprive him of the profitable position by which he maintains his family; a third, because he desires to attain reputation and authority, and then use them in the service of mankind; a fourth, because he does not wish to destroy old sacred traditions; a fifth, because he has no desire to offend people; a sixth, because the expression of the truth would arouse persecution, and disturb the excellent social activity to which he has devoted himself.’
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You may have missed the furore engulfing the former editor and journalist Roy Greenslade last week. That would be understandable, because despite most of the British and Northern Ireland Press running the story since last Sunday, few from the Irish media, until yesterday, reported it.
Greenslade, in a column for the British Journalism Review, disclosed that he lived a secret double life as an IRA supporter and wrote articles under a pseudonym for the republican paper An Phoblacht while simultaneously working for the British and Irish media.
He has now become a member of Sinn Fein.
In a rambling, misty-eyed piece, he said he wished to explain to his grandchildren why he was a republican, while also writing about his support for use of physical force .
You may have missed the furore engulfing the former editor and journalist Roy Greenslade last week. That would be understandable, because despite most of the British and Northern Ireland press running the story since last Sunday, few from the Irish media, until yesterday, reported it.
Greenslade, in a column for the British Journalism Review, disclosed that he lived a secret double life as an IRA supporter and wrote articles under a pseudonym for the republican paper An Phoblacht while simultaneously working for the British and Irish media.
He has now become a member of Sinn Féin.
In a rambling, misty-eyed piece, he said he wished to explain to his grandchildren why he was a republican, while also writing about his support for use of physical force .