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 Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 3:58 pm Post subject: Why The US Media Cannot Be Trusted |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 5:27 pm Post subject: Re: Why The US Media Cannot Be Trusted |
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You pose an excellent point, but is it really a matter of 'trust'?
Whilst I accept that many Americans view their country as the greatest on the planet, they have taken a fair beating in recent years, 9/11 and events such as Louisiana to name just a couple.
But there is another issue;
Is the question 'Should they tell it like it is?'. Well yes, but if I was editor of Newsweek and I wanted my publication to sell, I wouldn't put an anti-American cover on American shelves, it is just a business after all. A broadsheet is a different matter entirely and no-one is attempting to hoodwink the American people by putting a more consumer friendly cover on their coffee tables - with all the news networks and the internet, you can't be suggesting that Newsweek is attempting to mislead or fool anyone? The American people are under no illusions about how conflict overseas is progressing.
I would say that anti-American covers sell well abroad and don't domestically and it is that simple. Is the story missing from inside the magazine as well as from the cover?
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I don’t accept your premise. Being anti-Bush or against the wars in the Middle East isn’t the same as being “anti-American”. That’s a bogus GOP talking point, “you’re either with us, or you’re against us”. In a free democracy all citizens have a right to dissent (for now anyway). To argue that the war in Afghanistan is going badly now is ‘realistic‘. News publications aren’t supposed to tell people what they want to hear, rather what’s really going on. The truth isn’t always “good news” or popular. No one wants to hear that they have cancer but you'd surely sue if your doctor lied to you just to make you feel better. I find the mainstream new to be criminally negligent in many regards. In fact, the Bush administration has actaully intimidated certain news agencies in to not reporting certain items under the guise of "national secuirty". There's a fine line between necessary classifications and censorship.
The Taliban is actually regaining large areas of Afghanistan because most of our resources are diverted in to Iraq. And remember, a majority of US citizens are now opposed to the Iraq war which is also making things worse according to the latest intelligence so it’s hard to argue that they’re all “anti-American”. Sure it’s a business but if you’re going to resort to covering vapid tabloid topics to avoid confronting the real pressing issues than you’re not a very credible organization. That is what Fox News is.
I do believe it is a matter of trust. The American people largely rely on the mainstream news for updates on relevant current events. If these news sources are more interested in pursuing their own ideological agendas than reporting valid information than they cannot be trusted. That’s when it becomes propaganda. The United States has fallen to 44th in the world for freedom of press. That’s pathetic and unacceptable for a country that’s supposed to “spreading freedom and democracy” around the world. The fact of the matter is that the Bush administration is also funding fake news in Iraq as well.
Dissent is pro-democracy, not anti-American. This is one of the main reasons that Internet blogs have grown so much in popularity. It's the last bastion of unfiltered "news" (for now).
references:
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/41512/
Rumsfeld's Fake News Flop in Iraq
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The Pentagon hired some amateurs to create the fake news operation in Iraq that they've dreamed of having in the United States.
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U.S. Ranks 44th in Worldwide Press Freedom Index
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The annual worldwide press freedom index from Reporters Without Borders shows the United States, which is supposedly spreading freedom and liberty throughout the world, is in a fast decline regarding the freedom of its own press.
The report ranked the United States in 44th place, an atomic drop from a favorable position of 22nd held last year, and from a handsome 17th place in 2002. |
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=49&ItemID=10956
Afghanistan: 'Taliban Taking Over'
| Quote: | | The Taliban have regained control over the southern half of Afghanistan and their frontline is advancing daily, a group closely monitoring the Afghan situation said in a report Tuesday. |
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Classified intelligence assessment confirms the obvious: Iraq war has worsened terrorism
http://opposingdigits.com/vlog/?p=740
Reporters Blow Whistle on FOX News(Video)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/mediamix/2003-09-14-media-mix_x .htm
Amanpour: CNN practiced self-censorship
| Quote: | | CNN's top war correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, says that the press muzzled itself during the Iraq war. And, she says CNN "was intimidated" by the Bush administration and Fox News, which "put a climate of fear and self-censorship." |
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56330-2005Jan7.html
Administration Paid Commentator
Education Dept. Used Williams to Promote 'No Child' Law
PROPAGANDA.......
| Quote: | | The Education Department paid commentator Armstrong Williams $241,000 to help promote President Bush's No Child Left Behind law on the air, an arrangement that Williams acknowledged yesterday involved "bad judgment" on his part. |
http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/papers/vp01.cfm?outfit=pmt&folder=2053&paper=23 31
'Propaganda' bill nixed in House by Peter Urban
| Quote: | | House Republicans Wednesday soundly rejected an effort by Democrats to ban the Department of Education from spending money on "covert propaganda." |
Conclusion: Mainstream News Is Government/Corporate Controlled And Cannot Be Trusted!!!
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| Quote: | | Is the story missing from inside the magazine as well as from the cover? |
That I don't know...
Here's the original. It runs down the left side of the page.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14975282/site/newsweek/ |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:40 pm Post subject: Re: Why The US Media Cannot Be Trusted |
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| telecasterisation wrote: | The American people are under no illusions about how conflict overseas is progressing.
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http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=nation_world&id=4518213
Pentagon Seeks to Monitor Media on Iraq
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The U.S. command in Baghdad is seeking bidders for a two-year, $20 million public relations contract that calls for monitoring the tone of Iraq news stories filed by U.S. and foreign media. |
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The program comes during what has appeared to be a White House effort, before the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, to take the offensive against critics at a time of doubt about the future of Iraq.
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| Quote: | | Pentagon officials have defended the program as a necessary tool in the war on terror. But critics have said it contradicts American values of freedom of the press. |
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