Right. Everything is moving Right. The Left was fooled into believing
we were moving Left, when the right wing Establishment went quietly
about, building their "safe houses" and putting key players in place.
Judges and appointed government officials were set in place. Laws and
Courts favored the privileged. Public school curriculum was
manipulated. The Main Media became the "Voice of Right Wing Reason".
The Journalists were driven to the Right, or they were left without
News Papers or Publications that would publish their opinions or
investigative reports.
I doubt that the average Working Class member has any idea how far to
the Right we have swung. Of course we never were that "City on the
Hill" that we told ourselves we were. But for a short period of time
we truly did care for the poor and the down trodden.
Anyway, back to Amy Goodman. It's been some time, but I have sent
email notes to Democracy Now, in the past, usually thanking them for
something they reported on. But I would also feel it my duty to tell
them exactly what you've written to me. We on the Left need to apply
all the vocal pressure we can, in order to try balancing the constant
pressure from the Right. I did a great deal of that when Bob Edwards
was canned by NPR. They knuckled under quite quickly. NPR now stands
for, "No Public Responsibility".
But there I go again, bitching over spilled milk.
We're off to Forks today. It's 100 miles each way. Our client was in
a rehab center in Sequim, but they sent her home before we could see
her. I called her last evening to get her home address, and she told
me she was moved to the Forks hospital. That does not bode well.
She's also Diabetic.
But it will be a lovely day for a trip to the Pacific Ocean. The
forecast is for 73 degrees and blue skies. Highway 101 winds
alongside crystal clear Lake Crescent and past the edge of the Olympic
Rain Forest. Did you know this is the only rain forest in the
contiguous lower 48 states? Back in my youth, I wandered along the Ho
river and marveled at the moss laden giant Evergreens. Somewhere I
have a big box filled with color photos I took during my winter trip
around the Peninsula back in 1957.
Talk about remote. We drove North from Seattle, and at Edmonds we
took a Ferry across Puget Sound to Kingston, on the Kitsap Peninsula.
We drove across to Low Fall and Ferried across Hood Canal to
Southworth in Jefferson county. From there we drove over 120 miles to
the Rain Forest. It was January and just as clear and sunny as it is
today. The air is clean and sweet and the sun is just warm enough to
make us believe we are truly in a Garden of Eden...except we have
giant banana slugs instead of Serpents.
Oh well, even Perfection has its flaws.
Carl Jarvis
On 3/19/19, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Carl,
Of course, it's still the best of the lot in terms of well funded sources,
(and I do keep wondering from where all of their money comes). And Amy gave
a lot of the fine investigative reporters their start. But I have watched
carefully. At first, her coverage of Syria was inclusive, but then it became
atrocious. Yes, she did have two interviews with a Venezuelan official
spokesperson. But she hasn't once interviewed the several investigative
reporters who have been in Venezuela for many weeks so they could describe
what is actdually happening there. She stopped covering the Julian Assenge
business when it became too much of a hot potato. She hasn't had Max
Blumenthal or Ben Norton, or the guy from the Electronic Intifada, or any of
the people who are acdtually far left and journalists. She has stayed with
safe progressive subjects, nothing risky. She used to do things very
differently. I wouldn't know about half the people I know about, if it
weren't for her program. But, like NPR, she has changed. It is the capture
of everything by the powerful. Everything is moving to the right.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2019 9:08 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: about Democracy Now
Miriam,
Over the long haul, Democracy Now touches base with most of the issues the
Mass Media ignores. I don't always care about some of the topics, and
especially some of the people being interviewed. But overall I still feel
that the program is doing a credible job, day after day.
Just about every person and program I follow have their strong points and
weak points. But when I stop and recall turning on the TV after work to get
the evening news, along with a pile of advertisements, and
60 Minutes was about the most radical news program on the air, and the New
York Times was the Left Leaning newspaper, I thank all the clever people who
created the internet, and all the diverse opinions I can visit. If we need
to worry about programming that is sliding to the Right, NPR gets my vote.
Carl Jarvis
On 3/18/19, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Remember when I said that Democracy Now has changed, sort of moved to
the right? Interesting that on Unauthorized Disclosure Ranya was
saying that a lot of people who used to donate to Democracy Now, now
donate instead to The Real News Network. I know why. Amy is playing it
safe a lot of the time.
She
spent much of a second program on the shootings in New Zealand this
morning.
She managed not to even mention the demonstrations in Washington
against the continuing attempted coup by the US in Venezuela. But The
Real News Network had a small video showing the demonstration and
pieces of talks by max Blumenthal, Jill Stein, and Daniel Ellsberg.
Amy didn't even have it in her headlines.
Miriam
