That's It. That's the News.

The corporate media seems to be getting worse. I reference here, in full, yesterday's post by Craig Murray, "Those Who Die in Palestine: Those With Dead Souls Here," which succinctly captures the perverted contortions of the prestige press, in this case the Guardian:

I cannot imagine the cold courage it must take to be a Palestinian, walking in protest, unarmed, towards the fence that contains the agony of their long drawn-out genocide, in the knowledge that the bullets will start splintering bones and ripping out brain matter around them, and every millisecond could be their own last. 

I cannot imagine the cold viciousness it must take to work on the Guardian newspaper, where on the homepage the small headline of the latest six Palestinians to be shot dead, is way below the larger headline of the several hundredth article associating Jeremy Corbyn with anti-Semitism, on the basis of the quite deliberate conflation of anti-Semitism with criticism of Israel.

The corporate press serves the government, and the government serves the wealthy corporate elite, a simple identity statement that leaves out almost everyone else.

Newspapers are organized mostly around the identification of official enemies, like Russia, Venezuela, "the animal Assad," Rodrigo Duterte, Viktor Orban, Jeremy Corbyn, et al. Normal people are treated as un-people, not really material, usually just victims, hopeless, embarrassing. Then there is the constant boosting of the marvels of technology, the right-around-the-corner splendor of AI and autonomous vehicles.

That's it. That's the news.