Fisk: US corporate media osmotic, parasitic, fearful

Robert Fisk appearing on Democracy Now talks about Iraq, Palestine - and the Failure of the U.S. Corporate Media to Challenge Authority - see below

AMY GOODMAN: Well, when you see the networks, what do you think?

ROBERT FISK: I try not to see them, and I try not to read the New York Times, and I definitely will not be reading the L.A. Times anymore. You have a major problem in the United States, in that your journalists don't challenge authority. They will not, will not, will not challenge authority, unless they think authority is lying on the ground. Then they'll have a timid kick at it, which we're now seeing with the Scooter Libby affair. But by and large --

AMY GOODMAN: And with Katrina, as well.

ROBERT FISK: And with Katrina, yes. But by and large, you only have to look at a presidential press conference: "Mr. President! Mr. President!" "Yes, Amy." "Yes, Bob." "Yes, John." That's how the relationship -- osmotic, parasitic, fearful. To be questioning of power will suggest that you are unpatriotic and thus potentially subversive.

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