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American media playing dirty By technosoma

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Submitted by Technosoma

Jun 14, 2009

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According to the Centre for Public Integrity, a non-profit journalism organisation, Bush and his administration officials “stated unequivocally on at least 532 occasions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction… Bush led with 259 false statements, 231 about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 28 about Iraq’s links to Al Qaeda.

Interestingly, the American media, by and large, was duped into accepting government propaganda as genuine news. USA Today accepted government propaganda as genuine news and so did The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and The Washington Post. FOX accepted government propaganda as genuine news and so did ABC, CBS and NBC. The media then went on to ‘manufacturing consent’ of the American public; consent to go to war. Read the full article

Comments (4)

Lars Hilse,

Jun 14, 2009

So what's so new about that?

Not that it would be limited to the US.

You guys all use social media - so use it as your place for social news to learn what really happens...

Just my 2 cents ;)

Technosoma,

Jun 14, 2009

Aha Lars! News about that? Yes, Iraq's for Pakistan is certainly old news. However, what the writer, the executive director of the Centre for Research and Security Studies,intends to convey is that consequences of "Invading of Pakistan" on false pretexts might be horrible at least for millions of human and not just 170 million Pakistanis. Highlighting this article can convince American media for responsible roles.