Media activism yawana zvakawanda. Asi ini handitendi kuti pane chimwe chinhu chekugutsikana nacho - tichifunga nezvechokwadi chemazuva ano chezvenhau dzemakambani uye nyika yehondo.
Hondo yave yenguva dzose yeUS yekune dzimwe nyika mutemo, uye manyepo enhau kune vanogadzira hondo muWashington itsika - kuwedzera mauto anorerekera nyika munzira dzehutongi. Iwo makuru enhau enhau anopa gakava rinoramba riripo pamusoro pekugadzirisa zvakanaka michina yehondo. Chatinoda gakava rekuti tobvisa sei muchina wehondo.
Kana paine kupatsanurana kwakanaka mukati kana pakati pemapato maviri makuru ezvematongerwo enyika, nhau huru dzinobatanidzira maonero akasiyana. Asi kana vakuru muWashington vakavhara mauto ehondo, vezvenhau vanonyanya kuda kuvhara hurukuro chaiyo.
Heino muenzaniso: Mukupera kwaKukadzi 2003, mavhiki matatu kurwisa kweUS kuIraq kusati kwatanga, vatungamiriri veMSNBC vakadzima chirongwa che "Donahue" chehusiku. Chirevo chakaburitswa mumba chakataura kuti show yaPhil Donahue yaizoratidza "chiso chakaoma cheruzhinji kuNBC munguva yehondo." Dambudziko: "Anoita seanofarira kuunza vaenzi vanopesana nehondo, anti-Bush uye vanopokana nezvinangwa zvehutongi." Njodzi - yakakurumidza kudziviswa neNBC - yaive yekuti showa inogona kuve "musha weiyo yakasununguka anti-war agenda panguva imwechete iyo vakwikwidzi vedu vari kusimudza mureza pamukana wese."
Kana mapato maviri aya akavhara, ndozvinoitawo nhepfenyuro huru dzeUS. Kunyarara kwevezvematongerwo enyika nevezvenhau hakufanirwe kuve kunyarara kwedu.
Mumwedzi yekupedzisira yehupenyu hwake, Martin Luther King Jr. akataura nezve kukosha kwekupikisa nyika yehondo. Muna January 1968, akati: โHandina kumboronga kuzvichinjira kumamiriro ezvemari ayo achatora zvinodiwa nevakawanda kuti ndipe umbozha kuvashoma. Handimbodi kuzvichinjira kuupengo hwechiutoโฆโ Muna March 1968, akati: โMabhomba muVietnam anoputika pamba; vanoparadza tariro nemikana yeAmerica yakanaka.โ
Muna 2005, tinogona kuti: โMabhomba muIraq anoputika kumba. Vanoparadza tariro nemikana yeAmerica ine hunhu. " Varwi vanodzoka kubva kumabasa avo ekuuraya nekukuvadzwa kunotyisa kumuviri nemweya. Kutambura kunowedzera nekuda kwekupambadzwa kukuru kwezvinhu zvakashandiswa muhondo pane kubatsira kuita zvinodiwa nevanhu. Zvichakadaro, huwori hwemutauro hunosanganisa rufu.
Mashoko echokwadi anodzikisira maitiro ehunyengeri munguva yehondo haawane inki yakawanda kana airtime. Asi zvakare, imwe mhando yespiking inoitika munzvimbo dzepfungwa uye dzepfungwa.
Izvo zvakakosha kuti titarise manyepo tichiramba tichizora nzira yekuenda kuhondo, sepaNew York Times mapeji epamberi akakwenenzvera nzira yekupindirwa kweIraq nekunyengera pamusoro pezvinofungidzirwa zvombo zvekuparadza kukuru. Panguva imwecheteyo, pane zvakare kukosha kwakakosha kujekesa kutambura kwevanhu iyo IS hondo. Tinofanira kuita zvese โ kufumura manyepo nemhedzisiro inotyisa. Kuvhenekera imwe chete kana imwe hakuna kukwana.
Mumavhiki achangopfuura, kutariswa kwenhau kwakawanda kwaenda kune hutongi hweBush kuedza kunyengedza terevhizheni yeveruzhinji. Uye isu tiri kunzwa nezve kukosha kwekudzivirira PBS. Izvo zvinonzwisisika, kupihwa kurudyi-bapiro kurwisa kune network. Kana iwe uchiziya nenzara, zvinonzwisisika ungada mamwe mafufu kumashure. Asi hazvireve kuti chaunoda chaizvo kudzoreredzwa kwezvimedu. Chatinoda chaizvo, uye chatinofanira kuda, kutepfenyura kwechokwadi kuruzhinji.
Pakanga pasina nguva yegoridhe yePBS. Chishongo chekorona chehurongwa hwenhau dzenetiweki - ine akanyanya kuona uye pesvedzero - yanga iri yehusiku "NewsHour NaJim Lehrer." Sezvimwe nezvimwe zvidzidzo zvakawanda, kuvharwa kwehondo kwechirongwa kwaivimba zvakanyanya nezviri pamutemo zveUS masosi uye maonero mukuwirirana navo. Boka rekuona vezvenhau FAIR (kwandiri shamwari) rakanyora kuti panguva yehondo imwe neimwe - senge Gulf War muna 1991, kubhomba kweYugoslavia muna 1999 uye kupinda muIraq makore maviri apfuura - kutadza kweNewsHour kupa. kuburitswa kwakazvimirira kwave kuri kwesimba uye kunosiririsa. Kukundikana kwakadaro kunowanzoitika uye kwenguva refu yekuratidzira, se Tsvakurudzo ye FAIR inojekesa.
Kugamuchira hwaro hwakadaro hwemitemo yevatapi venhau - kana, zvakatoipisisa, kutaura senhaka inoyemurika yekutepfenyura veruzhinji - kumedza zvakawandisa uye kuda zvishoma. Nzvimbo yemauto-industrial-media yakakura igere pamhepo yeFirst Amendment. Uye kukomba kwevezvenhau kuri kuita kuti mabasa emhondi ehurumende yehondo ave akajairika. Tinokurudzirwa kuzviona semazuva ose, kwete kupenga.
Norman Solomon ndiye director director weInstitute for Public Accuracy. Bhuku rake razvino, "War Made Easy: Mapurezidhendi nemaPundits Vanoramba Vachitipinza Murufu," richaburitswa mukutanga kwezhizha. Ichi chinyorwa chakatorwa kubva mumharidzo paNational Conference for Media Reform, yakaitwa May 13-15 muSt.
ZNetwork inopihwa mari chete kuburikidza nerupo rwevaverengi vayo.
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