4/27/18 Joe Lauria on the Failures of the Mainstream Media

4/27/18 Joe Lauria on the Failures of the Mainstream Media

Joe Lauria, newly appointed Editor of Consortium News, returns to the show to discuss his new job, the history of Consortium News, and the legacy of Robert Parry. Lauria explains how careerist journalists of the mainstream media and the the frequently-censored news gave rise to alternative news sources, among the first of which was Consortium News.

Joe Lauria is a contributing writer at Consortium News. He is a former UN correspondent and wrote at the Boston Globe and Wall Street Journal. You can follow him on Twitter @unjoe.

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Scott Horton is director of the Scott Horton Academy of Foreign Policy and Freedom director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com and host of the Scott Horton Show from ScottHorton.org. He is the author of four books. He has conducted more than 6,000 interviews since 2003. Scott lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, Larisa Alexandrovna Horton.

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