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Many Journalists Become Very Defensive When You Suggest To Them That They Are Anything But Impartial And Objective. The Problem With Those Words "impartiality" And "objectivity" Is That They Have Lost Their Dictionary Meaning. They've Been Taken Over. "impartiality" And "objectivity" Now Mean The Establishment Point Of View.

Whenever A Journalist Says To Me, "oh, You Don't Understand, I'm Impartial, I'm Objective," I Know What He's Saying. I Can Decode It Immediately. It Means He Channels The Official Truth. Almost Always. That Protestation Means He Speaks For A Consensual View Of The Establishment. This Is Internalized.

It Is Not Enough For Journalists To See Themselves As Mere Messengers Without Understanding The Hidden Agendas Of The Message And The Myths That Surround It.

I Grew Up In Sydney In A Very Political Household, Where We Were All For The Underdog.

Who Are These Evil Ones? In 1984, The Evil One Was Called Goldstein. Orwell Was Writing A Grim Parody. But These People Running The United States Mean What They Say. If I Were A Teacher, I Would Recommend That All My Students Very Hurriedly Read Most Of Orwell's Books, Especially 1984 And Animal Farm, Because Then They'd Begin To Understand The World We Live In.