Zollmann, Florian

Florian Zollman

How the Western media support state terror – while millions die

1 August 2019Feature Florian Zollman and Alan Macleod and Jeffery Klaehn and Daniel Broudy and Matthew Alford

Five academics examine our media's coverage of foreign affairs, in a piece censored (and then rejected) by a leading liberal publication.

When Noam Chomsky first observed that the United States had attacked South Vietnam, he was upending a particularly tedious case of media conformism from that era, namely that the West was fighting Communists in the North to defend Saigon. However, the young professor was spectacularly right. By the end of the war,…