Tag: Gatekeeping

Naomi Klein: Gatekeeper Extraordinaire

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Veteran journalist lines up alongside the mainstream, attacking “conspiracy theorists” and “covid denialism”.

By Cat Maguire & Colleen Maguire

With a title like The Great Reset Conspiracy Smoothie, it appears Naomi Klein is trying too hard to recapture her prowess at defining a meme. Her buzz-concept, “Shock Doctrine,” is spot-on and rightfully successful. But her “Screen New Deal” about Silicon Valley technocrats fizzled.

Naomi Klein: Gatekeeper Extraordinaire

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Naomi Klein’s Great Reset Hit Piece Slurpee

[2016] Analysis of the sophistry of Noam Chomsky on 9/11

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Analysis of the sophistry of Noam Chomsky on 9/11

Gatekeeping is the term used to describe the process of deciding which information will go forward and which will not. It is to be expected that the mass media/corporate/government triumvirate are strict and vigilant gatekeepers but what is puzzling, to me at least, is that certain progressive intellectuals, who are generally very critical of that triumvirate and who are regarded as important voices in keeping its members to account, also practise gatekeeping but only on a few, though vitally important, issues.