It’s not that Jeff Bezos emails Washington Post reporters saying, “Promote US wars!” It’s that only reporters who support imperialism see their articles published and their careers rise. As Noam Chomsky famously said in an interview with Andrew Marr in 1996, “If you believed something different, you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting.”*
It’s always easier to flow with power than to flow against it. Entire
societal infrastructures have been built to ensure that this is the
case. Any effort which helps the powerful will be elevated and
amplified, while any effort which inconveniences them falls into an
empty void.*
2021-05-11T14:12−07* / at the about* post – at bit.ly/dateposted – anyone can link to this post from its date: May 11, 2021
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the asterisk above the video links to an earlier post on Noam Chomsky in the 1990s, the Overton window, and the five filters;
the next asterisk, below the video, links to a recent piece by Caitlin Johnstone – the source for this lightly edited excerpt