From Press TV
The West’s mainstream media outlets easily ignore serious government issues and only magnify diversionary stories and celebrity scandals, says David Swanson, an author and co-founder of Warisacrime.org.
“When it comes to investigating the claims of national governments and the arguments for wars based on blatant lies, these same media outlets act as dutiful stenographers,” David Swanson told Press TV’s U.S. Desk in a Sunday interview.
“So it really is giving a quite distorted picture of an aggressive reportorial organization that when it comes to matter of importance…it really isn’t,” the author of “War Is A Lie” added.
Swanson made a reference to the recent phone hacking scandal by a subsidiary newspaper of media magnate Rupert Murdoch and said that such issues receive media coverage in certain areas such as when a celebrity’s phone is for instance also hacked in the scandal.
However, he said, “I just would much prefer that they (Murdoch) were prosecuted for the crimes of selling illegal wars, something that he openly confesses to and doesn’t result in the same sort of scandal.”
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