Something the BLOGOSPHERE KNEW BEFORE the WAR, readers!!!!
Nothing like a WESTERN WAR CRIMINAL MEDIA!!!!
So WHY would you EVER BELIEVE the SHIT MSM again, readers?
After they SIT on STORIES all the time?
"Ex-CIA agent: 'The CIA were reporting that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction.' Newspaper refuses to publish scoop"
".... Davies describes, for example, how all was not well in the Observer newsroom in the autumn of 2002. The newspaper’s correspondent, Ed Vulliamy, had been talking with Mel Goodman, a former senior CIA analyst. Despite leaving the agency, Goodman retained his high security clearance and remained in communication with senior former colleagues. Goodman told Vulliamy that, in contradiction to everything the British and American governments were claiming, the CIA were reporting that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. Moreover, Goodman was willing to go on the record as a named source. It was an incredibly important scoop but the Observer refused to publish it.
Over the next four months, Vulliamy submitted seven versions of the story for publication - his editors rejected every one of them. (pp.329-331) In January 2003, the Observer’s then editor, Roger Alton, told his staff: “We’ve got to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Americans.” (p.350)
In support of this stance, the Observer’s David Rose echoed government propaganda on Iraq’s alleged connections with al-Qaeda - a performance that ended with a humbling apology from Rose in 2004. He described how his trust in official sources had been "misplaced and naïve... I look back with shame and disbelief”. (p.334)
Other people paid the price. Eleven days after Vulliamy’s story was rejected for the seventh time in March 2003, the first bombs fell on Baghdad....
“The implication of those two findings is truly alarming. Where once journalists were active gatherers of news, now they have generally become mere passive processors of unchecked, second-hand material, much of it contrived by PR to serve some political or commercial interest. Not journalists, but churnalists. An industry whose primary task is to filter out falsehood has become so vulnerable to manipulation that it is now involved in the mass production of falsehood, distortion and propaganda.” (Davies, ‘Our media have become mass producers of distortion,’ The Guardian, February 4, 2008)....
The press has never been an ideologically neutral, solely profit-oriented system in this "everlasting battle for the minds of men” - it has always been a key propaganda weapon for corporate power. And we should not imagine that this struggle is at an end. Elite interests remain determined to shape public opinion, to limit the perceived range of conceivable options in their interests, and the media system is still a prime means for achieving these goals.
In other words, the result of hundreds of years of political struggle for corporate control against popular interference has resulted in a situation where it is simply understood that certain facts, ideas, values and aspirations are acceptable while others are not....
Davies notes that, according to a recently retired officer, MI6 runs an intelligence section which has particularly close links to the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Telegraph and the Financial Times. (p.231) The former UN arms inspector, Scott Ritter, reports MI6 propaganda specialists declaring that they could spread their material through “editors and writers who work with us from time to time”. (p.231)....
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I'm never polite to the MSM papers when I write them now (which I rarely do unless asked by the blogs).
I really didn't appreciate the insults and disrespect that was fawned all over me between 2003 and 2006.
They DO NOT DESERVE POLITENESS and RESPECT until they START SHOWING SOME themselves and QUIT LYING TO US!!!!!
