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The Lying Mainstream Media
The journalist that helped expose the Iran-Contra Affair targets the mainstream media as giving the Bush Administration the blank check it needed to deceive the American people.
Robert Parry writes:
The Washington Post is reasserting its august judgment over what qualifies as news in the face of citizen complaints that it and other mainstream media outlets neglected leaked British memos about the deceptions behind George W. Bush’s war in Iraq.
The Post’s lead editorial on June 15 mixed a patronizing tone with derisive comments in assuring its readers that 'the memos add not a single fact to what was previously known about the administration’s prewar deliberations. Not only that: They add nothing to what was publicly known in July 2002.”
Oh, really?
(Read the rest at Consortiumnews.com)
The Washington Post is reasserting its august judgment over what qualifies as news in the face of citizen complaints that it and other mainstream media outlets neglected leaked British memos about the deceptions behind George W. Bush’s war in Iraq.
The Post’s lead editorial on June 15 mixed a patronizing tone with derisive comments in assuring its readers that 'the memos add not a single fact to what was previously known about the administration’s prewar deliberations. Not only that: They add nothing to what was publicly known in July 2002.”
Oh, really?
(Read the rest at Consortiumnews.com)
For more information:
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/061605....
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