Ralph Nader Acknowledges He's Been Muzzled
This is a striking report on the silencing of Ralph Nader by the American Press. I've often said that Nader was the best journalist of our era. Now Nader acknowledges that Corporate America silence him. And us.
It's an important piece on American journalism of our times. To our shame. To the shame of every journalist.
Here is how the article starts:
"Ralph Nader's descent from being one of the most respected and powerful men in the country to being a pariah illustrates the totality of the corporate coup. Nader's marginalization was not accidental. It was orchestrated to thwart the legislation that Nader and his allies--who once consisted of many in the Democratic Party--enacted to prevent corporate abuse, fraud and control. He was targeted to be destroyed. And by the time he was shut out of the political process with the election of Ronald Reagan, the government was in the hands of corporations. Nader's fate mirrors our own."
The entire article from Truthdig can be found here
We have all paid the price for this successful corporate war on truth.
Roldo Bartimole celebrates 50 years of news reporting this year. He published and wrote Point of View, a newsletter about Cleveland, for 32 years. He worked for the Plain Dealer and Wall Street Journal in the 1960s. He was a 2004 Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame recipient and won the national Joe Callaway Award for Civic Courage in 1991.