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Interview Transcript
Question: Are journalists doing their jobs?
Ingrid Newkirk: I think the media today is a total mess. It’s all sound bites. It’s all sex. It’s all confrontation. It’s all absurd, phony reality shows. It’s very hard to have an intelligent discourse that lasts any amount of time where someone can actually ask questions, you can answer, and they can ask a follow-up question, and you can answer it. You can actually get the brain opening, and closing, and moving around, and digesting this material and dwelling on it.
It’s what can you say in five words? How can you sum this up? So at PETA we have become gimmicky. We have become sex obsessed ourselves. We use naked women. We use scantily clothed people. We do whatever we need to do to take this serious message and try to get it into the media mind. And that’s very, very hard these days because the old days of the serious debate, they’ve gone.
Recorded on: November 12, 2007
Are journalists doing their jobs?
President, PETA
The media today is all sex and soundbyte, Newkirk says.
February 21, 2008 | In Media & Internet
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eileen fleming on February 21, 2008, 9:42 AM
The Muckrakers of the 21st century are civilian journalists and we are The New Fourth Estate.
We don't take assignments from editors or paychecks from conglomerates; we go-seek and report the truth that we the people should know.
I offer you 2008 video of the whistle blower of Israel's WMD Program, Mordechai Vanunu whose appeal fighting a 6 month jail sentence for interviews he gave foreign media in 2004, which has been completely ignored by corporate media:
"13 Minutes with Vanunu"
http://www.wearewideawake.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=807&Itemid=197
LOTS more under Vanunu Archives on WAWA:
http://www.wearewideawake.org/
eileen fleming on February 21, 2008, 2:42 PM
The Muckrakers of the 21st century are civilian journalists and we are The New Fourth Estate.
We don’t take assignments from editors or paychecks from conglomerates; we go-seek and report the truth that we the people should know.
I offer you 2008 video of the whistle blower of Israel’s WMD Program, Mordechai Vanunu whose appeal fighting a 6 month jail sentence for interviews he gave foreign media in 2004, which has been completely ignored by corporate media:
“13 Minutes with Vanunu”
http://www.wearewideawake.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=807&Itemid=197
LOTS more under Vanunu Archives on WAWA:
http://www.wearewideawake.org/
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