Excellent Buzz interview /Robert Kane Pappas " Orwell Rolls in his Grave"

(A must read for Media Wonks who can't get enough criticism of the media...this interview has some great insight into the dark world of ownership...plus a tidbit on Murdoch and the Chinese Media.)


Robert Kane Pappas' Reflections on Orwell, 2005

A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW

Robert Kane Pappas is the director of the mass media-critiquing documentary, "Orwell Rolls in His Grave."

… Robert Kane Pappas: One of the underlying notions of "Orwell Rolls In His Grave" is not being able to see the forest for the trees. What strikes me about the present string of outrages is that, as they pile on, even thoughtful people almost don't know what to say--you lose the forest.

We … have to fix upon the opposition's vulnerabilities, and attack, attack, attack. The individual examples of jaw-dropping corruption and cronyism will not stop. With each new incident, a big portion of the Left says to itself: "No way they can get away with this--it's too blatant, the media is going to jump on this," but then the media drops it, again. This won't change, the big lie is in place.

We, like the Right in the early 70's, have to fund ourselves, and attack relentlessly at the structural level, and we have to fund that attack in a big way, and it can't be 3 famous lefties, we need a thousand populist economic, journalistic, legal, sociological and philosophical experts attacking the corporate media.

One other thing. My guess is that most Jews in Germany couldn't bring themselves to believe that Hitler would try to exterminate them. Although not directly comparable, I don't believe most people on the Left can make themselves believe that the Bush gang actually systematically stole the 2004 election, and that 2000 and 2002 were trial runs. It's too earth-shaking to accept that the other side is not playing by some basic rules. But I'm sure somewhere in his mind, George Orwell was utterly certain that what he was describing in 1984 could happen in spades…

http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/05/03/int05012.html

By me, that is...

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