Journalists, when reporting from the wastelands of US imperialism, have become adept at deploying what Eve Tuck called “moves to innocence": the act of disappearing the role of the US in creating wastelands. These "moves to innocence" are one of US journalism's essential roles. Journalists rely on liberal discourses–feminism, democracy, free speech, human rights–to whitewash US war crimes and acts of aggression and erase its role as the creator of violence. They become magicians, disappearing history and chronology and repainting themselves as "innocents abroad," merely reporting on the world.
An Inconvenient Woman
An Inconvenient Woman
An Inconvenient Woman
Journalists, when reporting from the wastelands of US imperialism, have become adept at deploying what Eve Tuck called “moves to innocence": the act of disappearing the role of the US in creating wastelands. These "moves to innocence" are one of US journalism's essential roles. Journalists rely on liberal discourses–feminism, democracy, free speech, human rights–to whitewash US war crimes and acts of aggression and erase its role as the creator of violence. They become magicians, disappearing history and chronology and repainting themselves as "innocents abroad," merely reporting on the world.