Watching The Watcher - 3

Today's Hindu has a timely Leader Page article on professional journalism and how it is used by the powers to act as a veil between truth and propaganda, which, the reader ultimately gets. This is not yet another 'conspiracy theory' or 'commie crap' but painstakingly analyzed and monitored work, which is essentially impartial. You can find this and lot more in greater depth and detail in Manufacturing Consent, by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky, a bestseller also made into a movie.
Excerpts from the Hindu article

That Cromwell and Edwards are scrupulously careful, maintaining unfailingly politeness and accurate in their exchanges with famous editors and journalists — many of whom respond with vituperation or silence — gives their analysis greater weight. The authors' examples of journalistic submission to power would be farcical but for the mass slaughter that has gone almost unreported. The obvious example is Iraq, over which the repeated and accurate assertions by figures such as the U.N. weapons inspectors Scott Ritter and Hans Blix that Iraq had been fundamentally disarmed by 1998 were almost never reported

The prospect of mass starvation caused by allied bombing — and the consequent 3000 deaths a month in Afghanistan — received next to no attention in the mainstream British press, in sharp contrast to the intensive, varied, and detailed coverage of the floods of refugees in Kosovo in 1999; but on that occasion, NATO governments wanted coverage to help them justify bombing which — even on the U.S. State Department's evidence — caused the refugee crisis by provoking a savage and indiscriminate backlash by the Serbian government against all Kosovans. Sections of the mainstream press even argued for pre-emptive bombing, and in response Cromwell and Edwards cite Noam Chomsky as saying this would be like advocating that the British government bomb cities such as Boston, where Northern Ireland paramilitary groups were suspected of raising funds.

McCarthy, the whole media world is your friend :)