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– Glenn Michalchuk (from today’s interview)
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Thanks to technological innovation, the world is more capable than ever of knowing itself. [1]
And yet, we are now seeing signs that the range of our news reporting is becoming narrowed much as we were witnessing the world through the entrance of a tunnel as we have entered deeper and deeper into it.
The corporate forces is hooked into independent reporting and are finding ways to outflank the desperate voices of stories they don’t want being told. Witness the frequency of the thought-stopper “conspiracy theory” to shelve in the stockpile of stories bound for oblivion stories about COVID, or 9/11, or Russiagate. Witness the narrow focus around broadcast recording around Russia’s involvement in the east of Ukraine revealing no other possibility other than the unstated intention of militarily invading the country. Or the ways that climate change is a left wing vehicle that is actually providing secure transportation to whatever the world’s financial elites have cooked up.
Increasingly, thanks to technological sophistication, online instruments are thwarting online ventures through, for example, Google redirecting internet searches. We are already seeing, shockingly, how those folks on the Freedom Convoy with access to information outside the major outlets are not only being stopped cold under Prime Minister Trudeau’s use of the Emergency Act, but seeing their funds electronically shut down! This potentially includes people who sent a donation but otherwise had nothing to do with what they believed to be a peaceful demonstration!
For generations, it has been crystal clear that mainstream media simply has not always provided all the essential facts, especially if a war, lucrative from the standpoint of media invested in the military industrial complex is being contemplated.
Global Research has since its conception worked hard to try to bring those facts forward. And the Global Research News Hour, its audio outlet operates in the realm of community radio. Both have suffered challenges in the past year.
But CKUW, the Winnipeg-based station out of which this enterprising show is broadcast recognizes the importance of making radio available to everyone. It knows that democracy is furthered when we have a wider range of perspectives and not merely an echo-chamber out of which the Bill Gateses, the Rockefellers, the Elon Musks, and one war-happy president after another can have their communicative notes penetrate the skulls of the vulnerable.
That is why the campus-based community radio station has to turn to listeners to keep the project afloat. It gets zero money from the government and zero from paid advertisers. Coca-Cola, Monsanto, Texaco, Lockheed Martin and Pfizer have no call here! So to help our station stay active and energized in a world where the ruling class makes the profits, and the working class sheds blood in imperialist wars, ordinary listeners should probe news better attenuated to their needs. That’s why it is they who must lend a hand in this special annual fund-raiser called CKUW FUNDRIVE.
On this week’s show we will hear from three activists across the country, Ken Stone of the Coalition to Stop the War, Glenn Michalchuk from Peace Alliance Winnipeg, and Ed Lehman from the Regina Peace Council to talk about their range of activities at the present time, and of what a tour de force CKUW can be in their respective battles. We will also feature a lot of pitching for contributions and even a couple of songs!
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Ken Stone is a veteran antiwar activist, a former Steering Committee Member of the Canadian Peace Alliance, an executive member of the SyriaSolidarityMovement.org, and treasurer of the Hamilton Coalition To Stop The War [hcsw.ca].
Ed Lehman is editor for the Saskatchewan Peace News, head of the Saskatchewan Peace Council, and a member of Peace Quest Regina, and is also involved with the Making Peace Vigil.
Glenn Michalchuk is Chair of Peace Alliance Winnipeg and Treasurer for the Canadian Peace Alliance.
(Global Research News Hour Episode 344)
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Notes:
- http://www.topjournalismschools.org/15-interesting-ways-technology-has-changed-journalism/
