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| Newspaper cartoonist Jack Ahasteen honored with title of Grand Marshal in this year's Navajo Nation Fair Parade. Photo courtesy Navajo President Buu Nygren. |
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 27, 2024
For 52 years Jack Ahasteen turned out cutting-edge cartoons for Navajo Times. When he asked for a fair wage, Navajo Times ended his life long career. Now, Ahasteen is being honored with serving as the Grand Marshal of the Navajo Nation Fair Parade.
Today, Censored News looks at the changing face of journalism -- from the media fueling genocide in Palestine, to the cut throat tactics of starving journalists who love their art, to the sham of the media manufacturing the news with plagiarism, living as parasites off of others hard work.
Congratulations to Jack Ahasteen -- you made a difference.
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| Genocide in Palestine. Getty image. |
Media can be held responsible for genocide
Members of the media were convicted of the crime of "incitement of genocide" in Rwanda, and could be held responsible for incitement of genocide in Palestine, writes Mondoweiss.
"Today, CNN, Fox, BBC, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal know what they are doing."
When the radio, TV, and newspaper personalities were sentenced for the crime of incitement of genocide in Rwanda, the judge said, “You were fully aware of the power of words, and you used the…medium of communication with the widest public reach to disseminate hatred and violence…Without a firearm, machete or any physical weapon, you caused the death of thousands of innocent civilians.”
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| Progress in technology has created many wonders, and monsters, like copy and paste journalism in the digital age, filled with cracks and holes. Historic photo: Miehle flat-bed cylinder press. |
The Plagiarism Factories
While journalists are assassinated in Palestine, many 'reporters' in the U.S. are manufacturing news from their easy chairs, relying on a mix of plagiarism, rewrites and phone calls to deceive readers that they are out covering the news.
In this lazy man's factory, the latest scam in Indian country is calling "partnering."
What this really means is that the reporters who rarely leave their easy chairs use the hard work of reporters who actually do, and they're good at writing grants. The easy chair media put their own names on the articles, which are written by others, and promote themselves on social media.
At the journalism factory of plagiarism, the media masters are receiving $100,000 and one million dollar grants -- and still do not have reporters actually out covering Indian country.
It is a copy and paste industry -- and their stories are filled with holes.
Reporters throw facts together in a sort of mix master, relying on spin from politicians and public relations masters, and top it off with a phone call interview.
Journalists must live their code of ethics. And editors and publishers must honor those who dedicate their lives to the art and craft of journalism.
Echoing the words of the judge in the Rwanda genocide, “You were fully aware of the power of words."
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| Image by Jack Ahasteen, republished with permission by Censored News (2015) 'Navajo Water Rights Giveaway, the Road to Termination' by Jack Utter |
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About the author
Brenda Norrell has been a journalist in Indian country for 42 years, beginning as a reporter for Navajo Times during the 18 years that she lived on the Navajo Nation. She was a correspondent for Lakota Times, Associated Press and USA Today. After serving as a longtime staff reporter for Indian Country Today, she was censored and fired in 2006, when the newspaper was sold to new owners. She created Censored News. Today, in its 18th year, Censored News has more than 24 million page views. It has no ads or revenues. Censored News is a collective and service to Indigenous Peoples and human rights.
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