Hedges: Journalism Should Be About Truth, Not Career - Chris Hedges on Reality Asserts Itself (2/7)
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2013
- On Reality Asserts Itself, Chris Hedges tells Paul Jay about his criticism of the Iraq War and the events that led to him leaving the New York Times
watch full episode: therealnews.com/t2/index.php?o...
People like Chris Hedges are the real heroes.
See America? You actually still DO produce great men, such as this gentlemen. Now you just have to start listening to their message.
You. I like you.
Best candle of hope in the 2020 darkness.
We are taught from early childhood that America is great and compassionate. We hear it over and over until it becomes true. The quiet majority accept this truth until they die, but a few are cursed with objectivity that pierces the veil of mis information revealing the other truth; that America is based on infinite expansion, infinite control, infinite cruelty, and infinite theft. The truth may set you free, but it does not necessarily make you happy.
Brad Deal
The truth leaves you alienated and disenfranchised.
thank you for comment..yup
Very true Brad Deal.
Nailed it. Well put.
and one have to be blind not to see the reality on your own street as Mr. Hedges has said, the truth is on your own streets
After you experience being shelled, bombed, and shot at on just about every continent. With one purpose to inform us of the Truth. What A True American Journalist
Thank you Paul Jay, Reality Asserts Itself, and The Real News.
Listening to him that makes me feel how little I am. He is a national treasure and yet he is being treated like a national trash.
Always an intelligent and thoughtful analysis of what is really happening...Chris Hedges!
Thank you Paul. I am a long time fan of Chris Hedges and his philosophies are like my own.
I saw the Rockland College address on RUclips and when I heard the reaction of the crowd to Hedges opposition to the impending Iraq war, I felt an ominous chill at the back of my neck and it was as if I was a stranger in my own land..
Chris is, once again, awesome. Thank you.
Chris Hedges father would be proud, very proud.
hedges is a true revolutionary.
no. only a john the baptist. still waiting for a che guevara.
no, i think he is more of a 'john the baptist.' he reports the truth as he sees it, but has nothing to say about how to change things.
in my experience, americans think the constitution is graven on stone and stands beside the 10 commandments as a guide to social life. but in fact, the constitution was written to empower the rich over the many. by concentrating power in a few hundred people, wealth could buy them, one way or another, in sufficient numbers to create a gilded age.1 and now ga.2. one consequence of powerlessness is ignorance and passivity, a populace that can be molded by diseducation and genuinely fake news, such as the selling of iraq wmd.
things are not going to improve. rome didn't fall in a day, nor will the american empire.
Hedges is an outstanding man. The Real News & it's reporters are truly great. Thank you for informing & educating most of us who are keen to understand the word we live in. Thank you
Excellent series and thank you for indicating which part of the series this is. I'm telling everyone I know to watch and donate to TRNN. Chris' speech at Rockford is a must see. Also, make sure to see Hedges' weekly column at Truth-dig.
"war is a force that gives us meaning" changed my life. you all have said a lot about chris and i'll say more elsewhere but i wanted to add that. that book, man...
Great interview. I wish the mainstream was this frank.
I'm watching this whole interview,but I have to say this: What a man of honor ! WOW ! I was against the invasion of Iraq,I knew it was just another lie. I got into so many verbal fights which some became physical.I was doing some cabbing in the city of Chicago at the time.I had some people tell me to pull over and let them out. I really thought that Bush,Cheney and Rumsfeld would he held for war crimes and all hung ! Anyway,good going Chris !
Reality is hard. Excellent effort to share this unpopular view.
If more journalists had Hedges' brains and integrity, we'd all be a lot better off.
People like Chris Hedges are what make America great. His brutally honest assessment of the reality is needed more than ever.
I like the reference to Jane Addams. Chris Hedges is in good company. If journalists are not willing to take risks to speak the truth, who will? There are usually multiple truths, and Mr Hedges is one of the more credible people I have heard.
Christ hedges Rules.
People don’t ever stop speaking the truth Chris. You are a man amount men.
Every now and then, I like to order my French fries as " freedom fries" to see if the waiter understood me.
Hedges nickname in school was , Stinky.
Chris Hedges is the real deal.
Legend!
Chris Hedges is a Hero
Most do not like honesty, especially when there are hard facts. Not just journalism
I think most people either don't understand or underestimate what he says around 17:25. This is why we end up with biased networks that tell their fans what they want to hear and seem like the truth to them.
My Only daughter was in Operation Iraqi Freedom. She went in Basic 1 week After 911-- she was Already Sighned up. (17-1/2) Communications Specialist in t Green Zone.
This man is a legend.
"...media is a propaganda tool of the corporate!" - Chris Hedges
Perfect! Nuff said!
Awesome!!!!!
shame shame on Rockford
Sour grapes Hedges. “I been everywhere. I know everybody. I know everything. I been here, there, everywhere. I have done it all, I have been at every major event in history.
He's got balls, there is no denying that.
The non thinkers ( those that booed him ) at that graduation owe this brave man, Chris Hedges, an apology.
High as a kite!
I'm just playing along....
Look forward to P3.
i agree, but its a similar issue in other parts of the world.
"Understand the world we live in" I meant
By the way, matter is merely energy vibrating at a certain frequency...
I like how he tells us how many books he has sold, respect. would of been better if he had told us exactly the figure it had made for him dollars and cents both before and after tax. I would have liked to have know what he spent it on too.
God bless America.
No one else will.:P
@daniel Tobben
Oh please
thank God for him...I know exactly how he feels, when I decided not to put up with the "Corporate Line" and told my bosses to " Go fuck yourselves"...man, that was scary but it felt GREAT !!
Someone back then needed to make that speech because so many people were buying the bullshit so badly....and even to this day, there are people out there that think that what we did was actually just. But, even forgetting about ideas like Justice or any of those terms...Did we affect some sort of meaningful change in the ME that made it a better place so that what happened back then cannot happen again?
The answer is no. An unflinching, without hesitation, no.
And that's tragic.
Most definitely. Never shut up.
the title is quite ironic.
if only hedges ran for POTUS
+Ivan Diablo that would be something.
What happens when people become president? Were they evil to begin with or is there something else that influences their decisions?
He wouldn't win, Americans don't vote for people like Chris Hedges... The US as had people like him running for POTUS, Rand Paul comes to mind. Americans love the Bushes, the Clintons and the Trumps...
Why does the interviewer keep banging on about religion in his questions? (I am british btw and it seems kinda weird)
He's trying to bring up details about Chris's background and inspiration.
The intro left out that ol' Chris is high in neuroticism which affects his worldview in a very twisted way.
pretty impressive. eff the ny times.
hero
I thought it was going to be an interview on Mr; hedges views. Not on his biography. This far I'm disappointed, especially when we allready had the introduction.
who was the first real media/journalist sell out?
Was a BLATANT L I E
Copy of this speech?
www.reddit.com/r/antiwar/comments/1ik5sc/text_of_the_rockford_college_graduation_speech_by/
colleges today don't have freedom of speech much anymore
Of courses, truths are very important, but not nearly as important as those pesky student loans bills coming due the end of the month. That’s the extent of American truths nowadays…unfortunately.
It's obvious you don't get it !!
Truthdig(dot)com/chris_hedges/ is a website that Mr. Hedges writes columns for.
I rarely see efforts towards "truth" only "agenda". Not good.
I believe you can some up all your hurts with : WE WERE LIED TO
I agree with much of what Hedges says, but I don't think a graduation day is the appropriate venue for an anti war speech. The day should have been about the students and education, not his views about the war. He appears to have hijacked their day, and gone out of his way to make himself considered as anti-social, and deservedly so. This is a strange situation since within the larger context of his work in general, he seems to be one of the great social conciences in the USA. There are times and places to be controversial, not acknowledging that will sabotage his own message.
It is the perfect place :)
If the best man at your wedding did a detailed speech about recent tortures and be-headings, presumably that would be the perfect place too.
Yup
I never saw the speech. I depends on how he handled it. If he made it relevant to the situation, I think it's fine.
He handled it extraordinarily badly. It was not at all relevant. When increasing numbers start booing and jeering, that's the time most people would pause to think about what they are saying. But not him, he was determined to spoil their day. Booing and jeering seems to be his fuel.
Hedges is the American of yesterday - he really believes in free speech, in democracy and in speaking truth to power. Today's America cares only about profit, greed, and power at any cost. These things are not served by truth or justice. To speak out against the war crime of aggression committed against the Iraqi people at this point - 2003 - was an act of real courage and integrity, at a time when such things were rare. I wonder when even Truthdig becomes too cowardly to listen to Chris Hedges - that's when we will know for certain that the USA of old is dead. I accept that most of the values claimed by the USA were not practiced, but it was a powerful thing in the world to at least pretend to stand for them. Now there is no country in the world that aspires to be like the USA - rather, it is an example of what to avoid at all costs.
He would disagree with you because he knows that American, like that America, is a delusion that never existed
I imagine you are right - I prefer to use the term USA anyway, because America is two continents, most of which is not the USA. My main point was that Hedges represents a former era when at least the USA produced decent journalists and had some kind of values which made sense. Now we must watch RUclips or a channel like RT to see any decent reporting.