On the existential uselessness of mainstream media
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You might care to take a look at the following: Explosives shortage threatens EU drive to arm Ukraine | Financial Times (ft.com) Out of Shells We should be glad, I suppose, that neoliberal news media like the Financial Times are beginning to tell it like it is (e.g. Ukraine running out of shells; the west running out of productive capacity to produce more shells; Ukraine is losing the war). But I notice that some elite media (serving people “who really need to know,” even if it costs them), and these include the Financial Times, have actually been reporting the shortage of western arms production capacity for longer than we may think, dating back to summer 2022. But so embedded were these reports among other pro-western war jingoism and distortion of the real background to the war, that nobody was paying attention, or nobody could believe that this great democratic, humanitarian, ex-imperial and so fundamentally
On the existential uselessness of mainstream media
On the existential uselessness of mainstream…
On the existential uselessness of mainstream media
You might care to take a look at the following: Explosives shortage threatens EU drive to arm Ukraine | Financial Times (ft.com) Out of Shells We should be glad, I suppose, that neoliberal news media like the Financial Times are beginning to tell it like it is (e.g. Ukraine running out of shells; the west running out of productive capacity to produce more shells; Ukraine is losing the war). But I notice that some elite media (serving people “who really need to know,” even if it costs them), and these include the Financial Times, have actually been reporting the shortage of western arms production capacity for longer than we may think, dating back to summer 2022. But so embedded were these reports among other pro-western war jingoism and distortion of the real background to the war, that nobody was paying attention, or nobody could believe that this great democratic, humanitarian, ex-imperial and so fundamentally