HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Human Wrongs Watch

By Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service*

It is remarkable how the media in a select few countries are able to set the record on matters around the world.

Meas Sokhorn (Cambodia), Inverted Sewer, 2014

The European and North American countries enjoy a near-global monopoly over information, their media houses vested with a credibility and authority inherited from their status during colonial times (BBC, for instance) as well as their command of the neocolonial structure of our times (CNN, for instance).