Distorted vision of the corporate media
author is David Cromwell | 25.03.2003 21:26
Here in the UK, leading politicians, assisted by a largely compliant media, have engaged in a similar attempt to suppress, divert and mould public opinion.
In the eyes of the Media Lens editors, and many people posting messages at the Media Lens website (www.MediaLens.org), the propaganda dished up regularly by BBC and ITN news bulletins has been truly shameful.
Television images of pink mushroom clouds rising above the skies of Baghdad, with palm trees in the foreground, and green 'night-sight' footage of reporters filing meaningless live 'progress' reports back to the news studios, hide the devastating reality: that Iraqi men, women and children, as well as 'coalition' soldiers, are being ripped apart as a direct consequence of the global ambitions of right-wing US interests, supported by an arrogant UK government, in defiance of international law and global public opinion.
Full article at
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=3316§ionID=11
In the eyes of the Media Lens editors, and many people posting messages at the Media Lens website (www.MediaLens.org), the propaganda dished up regularly by BBC and ITN news bulletins has been truly shameful.
Television images of pink mushroom clouds rising above the skies of Baghdad, with palm trees in the foreground, and green 'night-sight' footage of reporters filing meaningless live 'progress' reports back to the news studios, hide the devastating reality: that Iraqi men, women and children, as well as 'coalition' soldiers, are being ripped apart as a direct consequence of the global ambitions of right-wing US interests, supported by an arrogant UK government, in defiance of international law and global public opinion.
Full article at
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=3316§ionID=11
author is David Cromwell
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