Journalists and Their Shadows (w/ Patrick Lawrence) | The Chris Hedges Report

Patrick Lawrence and Chris Hedges chronicle the decline of mainstream media and the craft of journalism, and the dark psychological reality behind media complicity in schemes of the powerful. Support my independent journalism at Substack: https://chrishedges.substack.com/ Follow The Chris Hedges Report on social media: https://linktr.ee/chrishedges (0:00) Intro (3:05) The Cold War and media (6:45) The power elite / professionalization (13:26) The end of the American century (18:51) Protecting the institutions (20:45) Journalists’ shadows (25:51) How dailies used to suppress journalists (30:09) The reality of difference (33:41) Defactualizing (36:58) Absence of history (40:11) Reason as obsolete (43:25) Editorial censorship (49:31) The role of alternative media (1:01:38) Outro