Colluding With Extremists | New Left Project

Why is analysis such as yours so marginalised? Why do we not hear similar analysis from the mainstream media?

These are inconvenient truths that the elite have no interest in revealing. Snippets of reality are often captured in part of the mainstream print media (often buried within much longer articles with a misleading title), but they are often drowned out by a chorus of more convenient reporting. I say print media since television and radio news/current affairs are virtually completely totalitarian. The BBC, for example, is simply a joke, in my view; it is impossible to watch for anyone with a basic knowledge of Britain’s real role in the world except as a study of propaganda – to regard it as a source of information is simply delusional. Journalists working in the mainstream seem to me to be one of two kinds – there are those who absolutely know how the system works, but just feel they have no choice but to do what they can within it, and then those who literally do not understand that anyone could possibly believe they are serving an ideological function. There is some hope with the former, but the latter are invariably the editors.

There’s an interview with Mark Curtis over at New Left Project, which mostly focuses on his new book (about UK support for radical Islamists).

As with anything Curtis is involved in, it’s worth reading. My own interests (journalism) led me to pick out this bit on the media, but it’s all good.

(via Instapaper)