The slander and innuendo goes on--and on--but it isn't until paragraph 12 (when maybe 90 percent of readers have already moved on?) that Broder and Thompson deign to mention Manning as "disturbed by footage shot by an Apache helicopter of an attack on a street in Baghdad in July 2007 that killed two Reuters journalists and several other men."
Before any of you get the bright idea to ponder a U.S. military helicopter given the name "Apache" or to question our (sic) heroic (sic) men and women in uniform, Broder and Thompson lay it out simply but firmly: "While larger questions about government secrecy and the role of the news media in the Internet age swirl around the case, the roots of Private Manning's behavior may spring as much from his troubled youth as from his political views."
The remainder of the article provides tidbits about Manning playing video games, being teased by classmates and rejected by his father, living in his car for a while, and "his geeky fascination with computers, his liberal political opinions and his sexual orientation."
To fully illustrate the sheer weirdness of this America-hating gay anarchist loner, Broder and Thompson make sure they tell us that Private Manning wore a dog tag that said "Humanist" and kept a toy fairy wand on his desk.
Which brings me back to the title of this article"
The U.S. government charged Bradley Manning with aiding the enemy but, let's state the obvious: the enemy is the U.S. government"and the multi-national corporations that fund it. The crime isn't whistle-blowing, the crime is relentless, lawless global war in pursuit and protection of profit. The New York Times and all corporate media outlets, therefore, should be charged with aiding the enemy.
It is the role, the mission, of the corporate-run media to aid the enemy.
Whether you label them liberal or conservative, most major media outlets are large corporations owned by or aligned with even larger corporations, and they share a common strategy: selling a product (an affluent audience) to a given market (advertisers).
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