RT America’s Chris Hedges nominated for Daytime Emmy
theres a good video in the post where chris talks about censorship because of commercial ads.
not sure what it means to be nominated for an emmy, but ive heard of it before.
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Now we have news as just one of the innumerable revenue streams for Viacom or General Electric or Rupert Murdoch News Corp competing against revenue streams, and this has created a kind of vacuum. I think the last show on national television, on PBS that dealt with power was Bill Moyers – that's gone now. And that's fatal to a democracy," Hedges told RT.
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We need programs where dissident voices that challenge the dominant narrative, that critique systems of power, including of course corporate power, can be heard. And there is almost no space left, and that's what we've tried to do with 'On Contact,' to fill that void," he added.
Activists, intellectuals, revolutionaries, and radicals are the journalist’s conversation partners on the show, often exposing the assault on democratic systems, the ecosystem, and the greed of big corporations.
The RT America host previously spent 20 years (15 of them with the
New York Times) reporting from Central America, the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans. He has been an outspoken critic of the Iraq War and criticized the media coverage at the time of the
military campaign as “shameful cheerleading.”
In 2002, Hedges won the Pulitzer Prize with a team of reporters for his coverage of global terrorism.