Just watching CNN reporting the death of Billy Graham.
What a lot of wailing about his great influence on the Republicans, evangelicals, conservative social and moral thinking, oh it's just been wonderful, and what a giant had passed, oh and his hey day in the 60s-90s and you can't overstate the impact of this man. Yes, he was friends with Nixon, who turned out a crook, and didn't call that out, oh that's nothing compared to his impact...
And this is CNN. While we have Trump in the Oval Office, an outcome of the right wing Christian corruption of the Republican Party, a direct result of the evangelical right wing movement. Can any mainstream media in the US ever criticise anything about America? The wars, the budget, the military industrial complex, religion? Apparently not.
Noam Chomsky is right: US media = manufactured consent and dissent.
And by the way, I notice CNN falls all over the Catholic Church too, interviews with Catholic mouth pieces and such, never a hint about the scandals and abuse issues.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.It good to see reporting in the media about the negative aspects Mr Graham's efforts. Not the mainstream media though, of course. They always support religion, unless obliged to report things that can't be ignored, like sexual abuse. Even then it's usually "rotten apples"
David1955
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Feb 21, 2018
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As far as I know Billy Graham as honest and truly believed he was doing the right thing. He never had one scandal. He did believe in a magical sky daddy and led perhaps millions astray. Let's keep in mind he may have been delusional but did his best o do what he thought was right. We do the same thing here.
Just because he was flatly wrong does not mean he did not have integrity and did not have good intent. He was not part of the media or part of CNN. He was simply a man that was influential and wrong.
DavidLaDeau
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Feb 21, 2018
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If you just focus on him personally, perhaps, but some of the reading I've done today would question that. But my point is not about him personally, or his money or his honestly. It's about this evangelical movement he very much fostered and the impact of that on the US. I'm thinking like a historian, like I always do.
Also it's not him being part of the media, but rather the media's attachment to religion as a social control mechanism.
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