19 January, 2010 — Narconews
Update II: Here is an audio-visual presentation by BrownManThinkingHard, courtesy of Baratunde Thurston:
It tells the back story of Haiti’s history and its relationship with US history. Did you know, for example, that the Haitian revolution that won independence from France directly led to the Louisiana Purchase and expansion of US territory? That, and other important context to understand current events in Haiti can be seen and heard by clicking “play.”
http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.4526913
more about “Media promotes flawed Haiti narrative“, posted with vodpod
It occurred to me this morning that this is the first time since the dawn of cable news that during a big international story that I don’t have CNN or the other TV news networks turned on as I go about my day. The shift has already happened in which the Internet reporting has surpassed what poses as journalism on the big networks, and any video clip they broadcast that does turn out to add to the story quickly gets posted to the Internet anyway. TV news – at least in English – is now officially dead. And unless it radically changes its way of doing things, it is only a matter of time before the public reaches the same conclusion. Rest in pixels.
The New Dark Age 
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