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Posted By tehranchik 3 months, 2 weeks ago in NewsNo journalist makes $5 million a year. No journalist has a comfortable, cozy relationship with the powerful. No journalist believes that acting as a conduit, or a stenographer, for the powerful is a primary part of his or her calling. Those in power fear and dislike real journalists. Ask Seymour Hersh and Amy Goodman how often Bush or Cheney has in
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antibrainwasher3 months, 2 weeks ago
Vote republican, vote to continue to destroy the 4th leg of democracy, where by the right wing completely controls the media, and objectivity is considered "liberal".
Vote republican to continue to let faux news, a subsidary of news corp, owned by the hard right wing austrialian zionist Murdock, an anti-american american hating corporate billionaire, be the main source of propagandized point of view relativistic ad hominem swiftboating news for the maleducated walmart level american public.
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antibrainwasher3 months, 2 weeks ago
vote republican, to destroy the 4th leg of democracy.
ABC/Disney/Eisner-hard right wing zionist-owned and operated by conservative profit only worshipping conservatives who serve their profit minded stockholders, majority owned by a holding company in Israel.
NBC/Univerial/MSNBC-owned by General Electric, zionist owned and operated, coporate profit only worshipping owned and operated, for the benifit of profit only. Journalism: tool to make money.
CBS/owned by Westinghouse Corporation-hard right zionist owned and operated, for profit only company, journalism to sell advertising space is the motto.
News corp: fox news, hard right weekly standard, majority austrian media owner, huge English tabloid owner, hard right zionist american media owner, owns Wall street Journal, and massive information and media coporate empire, buying LA times and Chicago tribune from Sam Zell, another hard right jewish zionist. Biggest media empire in the world.
All corporate, all conservative
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tehranchik3 months, 2 weeks ago
While I agree with what you say---you can't leave the democrats out of this. They are at fault in this as well. They have caved every time there's been a chance to make it right. FISA is a great example.
It's off subject. If the journalists like Hersh and Goodman, or Cole and Chomsky were listened to by mainstream, maybe we wouldn't be where we are now. How about Nir Rosen, who has spent more time on the ground in Iraq than many journalists---seen anything by him in the mainstream lately?
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antibrainwasher3 months, 2 weeks ago
From counterpunch: article by William LInd
A person my age has watched many things decline in America, and few get better. As one of my neighbors says, everything good is gone or going. In that category we must now include good reporting. When I started work in Washington in 1973, it was axiomatic that a newspaper reporter talked to many sources for any story. The story, in turn, reflected a number of viewpoints and perspectives. No reporter worth his bourbon would have dreamed of just printing some press release put out by the government.
But that is now what they all seem to do, especially in covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Forgetting that the phrase "to lie like a bulletin" is military in origin the reference is to bulletins issued by Napoleon's grande armeÃ;Æ;Ã;© -- they print verbatim the happy talk the U.S. military is obliged by the Bush administration to spew.
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antibrainwasher3 months, 2 weeks ago
To the degree the war in Iraq is still covered, the American public is assured over and over that "violence is down." For the moment, that is true, but the implication that we are on a roll is not true. Fourth Generation wars do not move in linear fashion. Violence is down because the constantly shifting network of deals and alliances among Iraq's warlords has created a stable interlude. Those alliances will continue to shift, and as they do so violence will rise again. How many reporters are asking the talking dog majors who brief the press the central strategic question, namely whether there is any evidence a state is re-emerging in Iraq? As best I can tell, none. The same number appears to be trying to answer that question from other, more reliable sources.
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antibrainwasher3 months, 2 weeks ago
The reporting on Afghanistan is if anything worse. On Sunday, June 22, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, a paper I like, printed an AP article under the headline, "Marines drive Taliban from volatile province," namely Helmand. The article itself more modestly claims victory in one Helmand town, Garmser. If the 24th MEU has driven the Taliban out of Helmand province, I'll eat my yurt. One town, maybe, but what does taking a town mean in a guerilla war? When the Marines leave, which they will, the Taliban will return.
The fact of the matter is, the whole NATO/American effort in Afghanistan is circling the drain. The American papers should be full of in-depth, multi-sourced stories about the war there. A friend just back from Britain reports that the British press is full of just such stories. In one recent ten-day period, the Brits lost nine soldiers killed, including their first woman. Was that reported anywhere in the U.S. press?
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