Patrick L. Smith: Alternative Media Tells It Right on Ukraine
At the World Russian Forum, foreign affairs columnist Patrick Smith talks about the state of media, democracy and empire in the United States.
Patrick L. Smith is the foreign affairs columnist at Salon and author of “Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century” (2013). He was the International Herald Tribune’s bureau chief in Hong Kong and then Tokyo from 1985 to 1992 and a contributor to the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Nation, the Washington Quarterly and other publications.
The key points of Smith’s interesting speech:
- American media have had an unhealthy relationship with political power from 1898 and the first advance into imperial adventures
- You can have democracy or you can have empire, but you cannot have both at the same time
