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Is U.S. Media Coverage of Ukraine and Syria Even WORSE than Its Coverage of Iraq?
Over the last year, we’ve documented that – despite all of the mea culpas for horrible Iraq coverage – the U.S. media’s coverage of Ukraine and Syria is just as biased, superficial and pro-war.
Former Associated Press and Newsweek reporter Robert Parry – who broke several of the biggest stories regarding Iran-Contra, and recipient of the George Polk Award for National Reporting in 1984 - writes of U.S. media coverage of the conflict in Ukraine is even worse than Iraq:
In my four-plus decades in journalism, I have never seen a more thoroughly biased and misleading performance by the major U.S. news media. Even during the days of Ronald Reagan – when much of the government’s modern propaganda structure was created – there was more independence in major news outlets. There were media stampedes off the reality cliff during George H.W. Bush’s Persian Gulf War and George W. Bush’s Iraq War, both of which were marked by demonstrably false claims that were readily swallowed by the big U.S. news outlets.
But there is something utterly Orwellian in the current coverage of the Ukraine crisis, including accusing others of “propaganda” when their accounts – though surely not perfect – are much more honest and more accurate than what the U.S. press corps has been producing.
There’s also the added risk that this latest failure by the U.S. press corps is occurring on the border of Russia, a nuclear-armed state that – along with the United States – could exterminate all life on the planet. The biased U.S. news coverage is now feeding into political demands to send U.S. military aid to Ukraine’s coup regime.
The casualness of this propaganda – as it spreads across the U.S. media spectrum from Fox News to MSNBC, from the Washington Post to the New York Times – is not just wretched journalism but it is reckless malfeasance jeopardizing the lives of many Ukrainians and the future of the planet.
Media coverage of Syria is also arguably worse than of Iraq.
After all, the American media trumpeted false claims about Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction. But – with Syria – the American media is studiously ignoring the fact that:
- Since that didn’t work to start a war, Turkey is trying to carry out new false flag attacks with which to frame Assad
- The CIA has for many years been shuttling heavy weapons seized from Libya through Benghazi to the Syrian rebels
- As the Council on Foreign Relations notes – based upon data by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights – civilian deaths have been overestimated when compared to deaths of combatants, and “most of the reported deaths in Syria have not been committed by forces under Bashar al-Assad’s command“
Of course, the corporate media is always pro-war and pro-empire. But now the large “alternative” media outlets – such as Drudge and Huffington Post – are also beating the war drums as loudly as they can.
So you’ll hear scary stories that terrorists in Syria are a threat to the U.S. … but you won’t hear that the U.S. has been planning regime change in Syria for 20 years straight (and see this), or that the U.S. and its allies are the ones who pumped up those terrorists in the first place.
You’ll be told that Russia will start World War 3 if we don’t launch a military campaign in Ukraine … but you won’t hear that that the U.S. has planned on taking control of Ukraine since 1997, or that the former Ukrainian Security Chief alleges that the new neo-Nazi government was behind the sniper attacks which turned the West against the old regime in the first place.
You won’t hear any of that when the media is trying to sell a war …
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Robert Parry, of course, is a REAL reporter and an outstanding investigative journalist.
Meanwhile, we have Carol "the talking twat" Costello on CNN interviewing some douchebagger from the American Enterprise Institute, funded by the Koch and du Pont families, so we are getting the viewpoints of those two families!
That is not news!
But this is:
http://www.alternet.org/world/americas-coup-machine-destroying-democracy-1953?page=0%2C0&paging=off
I will break my own rule and watch WABC TV this weekend. The Ten Commandments will be on Saturday @ 7pm. It's a traditional thing. Thanks WABC for keeping up with the annual tradition of showing this timeless classic.
screw that hollywood crap, watch The Gospel According to St Matthew, by Pasolini, if you order right now you can have it in time. how many car ads can the media fit between each commandment?
You are silly.
Anthony Freda is BRILLIANT !!!
Number 16
Whenever a headline is presented as a question, the answer is ALWAYS NO.
Whenever a headline is presented as a question, the answer is already an obvious YES.
Actually, the correct answer is obviously "Yes!" Everywhere one looks, one sees things changing at exponential rates, and the degree of deceits in the mass media is one of those domains. As Gerald Celente says, the presstitutes are working harder and harder to promote propaganda, despite that they are probably being paid to drive events towards their own self-destruction.
For thousands of years, success in war was always based on deceits. The mass media are a handful of corporations which are integrated into the bigger system of financial frauds, which are accelerating at an exponential rate, towards unpredictable tipping points, when the ability to back up lies with violence self-destructs.
The mass media are told what to say by the ruling classes, whose agenda is criminally insane. Together, they learn to lie even more over the top than previously. Their pendulum is being pushed and pushed, until, like a swing, they could go over the top of the bar that they depended upon. It will no longer be fun when it reaches that point!