CNN ati CBS ṣe. NPR ati PBS ṣe. Gbogbo wọn ni wọn ṣe.
It’s a “gentleman’s” agreement between elite media and their establishment guests – a courtesy major news outlets bestow upon former officials who get to pontificate and editorialize about loni’s events with no worry they’ll be identified by their jobs loni.
On Wednesday night, CNN’s Don Lemon hosted ubiquitous Bernie Sanders-basher Jim Messina – solo, without an opposing view – to slam Sanders and his Medicare for All proposal.
Messina ni a ṣe afihan ati pe a ṣe idanimọ leralera nipasẹ tirẹ nikan tele positions: “Former Obama Campaign Manager” and “Former Deputy Chief of Staff, Obama Administration.”
As is typical, viewers weren’t told what Messina’s current job is – perhaps far more relevant information than his positions years ago.
Messina jẹ oludamọran ile-iṣẹ ni bayi. O si jẹ CEO ti Ẹgbẹ Messina, whose website boasts corporate clients such as Amazon’s pharmaceutical subsidiary PillPack, Google, Uber, Delta – and the slogan: “Unlocking Industries So Businesses Can Win.”
If properly introduced, it would have been no surprise to CNN viewers that a corporate consultant would malign Sanders, the most popular anti-corporate politician in recent US history.
Host Lemon also neglected to inform viewers that since leaving Team Obama, Messina has been paid handsomely to elect conservative politicians across the globe, including Tory Prime Ministers David cameron ati Theresa May in Britain, and Prime Minster Mariano Rajoy in Spain. Messina’s company website features an image of Cameron next to the banner: “Ipolongo fun oludije a gbagbo ninu. "
In U.S. corporate media, such misidentification is a hoary tradition, and a dishonest one. More relevant to news consumers in judging the quality of information from a former government official would be the current employment and entanglements of that ex-official.
In the months after the Chinese government massacred students in Tiananmen Square in 1989, no voice in U.S. media was more prominent or ubiquitous in aforiji fun China than Henry Kissinger, usually identified only as “former Secretary of State.” Consumers of news were almost never told that Kissinger at the time was a consultant to corporations doing business in China – and the head of China Ventures, a company engaged in joint ventures with China’s state bank.
When healthcare reform was being hotly debated in 1993-94, NPR presented point-counterpoint face-offs between a former GOP congressman and a former Democratic congressman, both of whom were quick to deride the proposal in Congress for a single-payer system of government-provided health insurance. NPR didn’t tell its listeners that mejeeji ti awọn oniwe-"tele" were current lobbyists or consultants for private healthcare corporations.
Pupọ ti ibajẹ ni Washington - iru Sanders ati Elizabeth Warren ti o ṣofintoto - jẹ lati ọdọ awọn oṣiṣẹ ijọba tẹlẹ, boya Democrat tabi Republikani, nlọ ijọba lati ṣiṣẹ bi awọn alamọran tabi awọn alarabara fun awọn ire ikọkọ ti ojukokoro. Àwọn ilé iṣẹ́ ìròyìn tí ó gbajúmọ̀ ń ṣiṣẹ́ kára láti yẹra fún ìwà ìbàjẹ́ yìí, ọ̀nà kan tí wọ́n sì ń gbà ṣe bẹ́ẹ̀ ni nípa dídá “àwọn ògbógi” wọn mọ̀ dáadáa gẹ́gẹ́ bí ògbólógbòó.
Anita Dunn will always be the “former Obama White House Communications Director” – and in that job, she assisted first lady Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity campaign. After leaving the White House, Dunn became a olùkànsí fun ounje ilé seeking to block restrictions on sugary food ads targeted toward children. She also consulted for TransCanada in its push for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. Today, Dunn is a oga onimọran lori ipolongo Alakoso Joe Biden.
A warning to news consumers: When CNN or NPR or PBS introduces a guest only as a “former” official, you are being lied to more often than not.
Jeff Cohen jẹ oludasilẹ ti ẹgbẹ ijafafa ori ayelujara RootsAction.org, oludasile ti media aago ẹgbẹ Itẹ, ọ̀jọ̀gbọ́n oníròyìn tí ó ti fẹ̀yìn tì, àti òǹkọ̀wé “Asírí Ìròyìn Cable: Misadventures My in Corporate Media.”
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