Paul Craig Roberts Receives Journalism Award

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Paul Craig Roberts was recently received an award for Journalism Excellence by the Press Club of Mexico

I'll give a few snippets of his acceptance speech:

In the United States journalists receive awards for lying for the government and for the corporations. Anyone who tells the truth, whether journalist or whistleblower, is fired or prosecuted or has to hide out in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London, like Julian Assange, or in Moscow, like Edward Snowden, or is tortured and imprisoned, like Bradley Manning.

The few real journalists that remain are resigning. Last year Sharyl Attkisson, a 21-year veteran reporter with CBS resigned on the grounds that it had become too much of a fight to get truth reported. She was frustrated that CBS saw its purpose to be a protector of the powerful, not a critic.

Recently Peter Oborne, the UK Telegraph’s chief political commentator, explained why he resigned. His stories about the wrongdoings of the banking giant, HSBC, were spiked, because HSBC is an important advertiser for the Telegraph. Osborne says: “The coverage of HSBC in Britain’s Telegraph is a fraud on its readers. If major newspapers allow corporations to influence their content for fear of losing advertising revenue, democracy itself is in peril.”

Last summer former New York Times editor Jill Abramson in a speech at the Chautauqua Institution said that the New York Times withheld information at the request of the White House. She said that for a number of years the press in general did not publish any stories that upset the White House. She justified this complete failure of journalism on the grounds that “journalists are Americans, too. I consider myself to be a patriot.”

So in the United States journalists lie for the government because they are patriotic, and their readers and listeners believe the lies because they are patriotic.

Recently, a young American, Barrett Brown, was sentenced to 5 years in prison and a fine of $890,000 for linking to allegedly hacked documents posted on the Internet. Barrett Brown did not hack the documents. He merely linked to an Internet posting, and he has no prospect of earning $890,000 over the course of his life.

You can read the whole speech here:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/03/paul-craig-roberts/truth-is-our-true-country/

[John in Plano]

Has any Mexican journalist written with Roberts about 9/11 ?

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Has any Mexican journalist written with Roberts about 9/11 ?

I don't recall reading anything Roberts wrote about 9/11. But, I have to think he doesn't believe it was a terrorist attack by Muslims.

[Red Oak]

Dr. Roberts is a well educated, distinguished, Nut Case.

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Dr. Roberts is a well educated, distinguished, Nut Case.

In a country of lies anyone who speaks the truth appears to be a lunatic. Somebody said that or something like it.