News and propaganda

I don't think the majority of contributors here would agree with the above statement. Experience has shown it to be a fallacy. Of course there are journalists who do serious investigative work and who do provide honest information. Unfortunately they are not often seen or heard in the mass media.

This quote from Global Research says a lot about where the 'main street' media is coming from:“We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.” – David Rockefeller, Bilderberg, 1991

The socialist standard is propaganda, nobody would deny that, but it isn't journalism, it is an activist publication produced by socialists for the propagation of socialism. No matter what the individual intentions of the journalist as a worker s/he has to sell their labour power to the capitalist, and therefore cannot break their masters line.