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It was muck-raking journalism that was instrumental in anti-trust legislation at the time (which included the fracturing of the Standard Oil empire). Furthermore, anti-rich sentiment -- probably fueled by critical journalism -- is probably what galvanised J.D. Rockefeller to part with hundreds of millions of dollars. Today's media -- owned by a handful of corporate giants -- is far tamer. Why are you wasting bandwidth to make such silly statements? If today's media had been present (sorry, "embedded") with Allied forces, they'd have been cheerleaders with regard to Dresden and Nagasaki (the same way they've been in Iraq). The mass media of today is just another branch of the government. You seem to be laboring under the delusion that mass media acts as critical oversight over government policy. It does not. Its primary function is obfuscation and disinformation. Furthermore, even if the occasional morsel does get out (usually through channels like Al-Jazeera), do you think that changes policy an iota? Unarmed US drones are killing civilians in Pakistan every day -- this is common knowledge. Do you think this is changing US policy?
It was muck-raking journalism that was instrumental in anti-trust legislation at the time (which included the fracturing of the Standard Oil empire). Furthermore, anti-rich sentiment -- probably fueled by critical journalism -- is probably what galvanised J.D. Rockefeller to part with hundreds of millions of dollars. Today's media -- owned by a handful of corporate giants -- is far tamer.
Why are you wasting bandwidth to make such silly statements? If today's media had been present (sorry, "embedded") with Allied forces, they'd have been cheerleaders with regard to Dresden and Nagasaki (the same way they've been in Iraq). The mass media of today is just another branch of the government. You seem to be laboring under the delusion that mass media acts as critical oversight over government policy. It does not. Its primary function is obfuscation and disinformation. Furthermore, even if the occasional morsel does get out (usually through channels like Al-Jazeera), do you think that changes policy an iota? Unarmed US drones are killing civilians in Pakistan every day -- this is common knowledge. Do you think this is changing US policy?
