There are some excellent examples of meta-positioning in these Media Lens articles on corporate media takes on John Pilger and Robert Fisk:

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2012/S00026/stuck-in-a-lift-with-john-pilger-news-and-how-to-use-it-by-alan-rusbridger.htm

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2011/S00064/robert-fisk-death-of-a-

Journalists who speak truth to power are routinely smeared, or damned with faint praise, by colleagues who know that it's not good for their career amendment to acknowledge the truth when it's so inconvenient to the powerful.

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