30
Nov
Weep: This is Your Media.
US EXPORTS SUBSIDIZED “JOURNALISM” TO IRAQ
U.S. Military Covertly Pays to Run Stories in Iraqi Press
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-infowar30nov30,0,5638790.story
BRAD’S BLOG REPORTS ON MR. BILL
“Bill O’Reilly has finally posted his promised Enemies List on his website which he catagorizes as a list of “Media Operations that traffic in defamation.” At this time, his list includes just three media outlets and no supporting information for why they are listed. Though we have a guess or two…
BILL O’REILLY’S LIST!
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002091.htm
U.S. MAINSTREAM MEDIA DISMISSES AL JAZEERA STORY
Howard Kurtz, America’s official media critic devoted about 20 seconds to the story reported in England about the threat to bomb Al Jazeera. Here’s the trivialization as performed by Kurtz and former CBC correspondent turned CNN correspondent Bruce Morton on CNN’s Reliabe Sources program:
KURTZ: Bruce, this British tabloid report in “The Mirror” relying on one unnamed source that said that the Bush — that President Bush considered bombing Al-Jazeera’s offices but Tony Blair talked him out of it. The White House says us that ludicrous.
Should CNN and lots of newspapers and other news organizes have reported that?
MORTON: I don’t know that there is any evidence of that. “The Mirror” — the British tabloids are famous — and “The Mirror,” to be fair, is not known for reliability. It ain’t “The New York Times.” You know.
KURTZ: Yet just about everybody picked it up, with the White House denials, of course.
MORTON: I think we could have laid off that probably.
KURTZ: All right.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0511/27/rs.01.html
That was it. Pathetic. I will have an update on the Al Jazeera story on TomPaine.com later today.
HOW SOON WE FORGET
Free press carries this piece from Mark Lloyd of the Center for American Progress
”The “news” in America does not represent what is important for citizens to know – quite the opposite. In fact, commercial television news keeps us from putting the pieces together and holding our public servants accountable.
http://www.freepress.net/news/12567
