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December 20, 2007 at 09:09:21
CNN Has Joined With Fox News In Disseminating Propaganda And Betraying America by William Cormier Page 1 of 2 page(s) |
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The changes that have occurred at CNN in just the past few months is alarming. We all know that Faux News, The Republican Leaning Channel, has constantly bent, spun, and distorted the truth since Bush came into power; ABC wasn’t much better, but CNN used to be the one channel where an individual could actually find some news minus all of the government spin and propaganda. Then they hired Glenn Beck, a right-wing Rethuglican who is attempting to catch-up with the likes of Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, and the crowd at Faux News, headquarters for fascist USA’s propaganda system. This evening, I glanced at CNN’s Political Ticker and read an article in regard to Mitt Romney and his unbridled disgust that Vladimir Putin had been chosen as Time Magazine’s Man of the Year. Reading the article and knowing what’s happening to our own country was what was really disgusting, especially these quotes by Mitt Romney and John McCain that CNN doesn’t discuss or offer commentary to the otherwise: Excerpts:
Romney: Man of Year choice ‘disgusting’
“You know, he imprisoned his political opponents. There have been a number of highly suspicious murders,” Romney said on Beck’s radio show. “He has squelched public dissent and free press.” And to suggest that someone like that is the Man of the Year is really disgusting. I’m just appalled.”
“Clearly General Petraeus is the person, or one of a few people, who would certainly merit that designation,” the former Massachusetts governor added.
“I noticed that Time Magazine made President Putin the Time Magazine ‘Man of the Year,’” McCain said, according to NBC. “I understand that probably, but my man of the year is one Gen. David Petraeus, our general who has brought success in Iraq.” (Items in green are those I added emphasis to.) MORE
If only Vladimir Putin was the only one one that “squelched public dissent and free press” we would be OK, but anyone that gets their news from the Internet knows that George W. Bush has done the same thing, yet Romney criticizes Putin on the matter and doesn’t say a word about our own cowardly press, or the many times that peaceful protesters have been arrested, and others added to a “terrorist watch list” just because they disagreed with the government. You will also note that CNN also remains silent wile Romney makes quips that equally apply to the United States.
To add insult to injury, John McCain goes on to say that General Petraeus should be man of the year because he “brought success in Iraq.” Oh, so Iraq in now a “success”; by what parameters does Mitt Romney or John McCain decide that our mission in Iraq has been successful? According to icasualties.org, fourteen (14) U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq so far this month - and it isn’t over yet. How many U.S. lives per month add-up to a “success in Iraq?”
What about Basra? Based on what I’ve read, Basra is no more of a success than anywhere else, except US troops aren’t there, and now the British are also gone. This is an excerpt from Time Magazine online:
What the British Left Behind in Basra
SIIC and the Sadrists are major players in the national government, and earlier this month a senior U.S. official laid the blame for the “mess” in Basra at their feet. “This government, the Shi’a parties, have failed to act responsibly,” the official told reporters. And while he pointed to signs that the various factions were trying to bring the situation under control — borne out to some extent by a recent announcement of a truce in the city — it is unlikely that those factions are ready to lay down their arms and cooperate. Basra Province contains the lion’s share of Iraq’s oil and its only port. It’s a tempting prize for groups that have shown more enthusiasm for fighting than for compromise.
So Basra will continue to be a high-stakes front in the intra-Shi’a fight for control of southern Iraq. That fight has largely escaped the notice of Americans — both because U.S. troops are not on the front lines and because the violence has not reached the appalling levels seen in other parts of the country.
But the violence in southern Iraq gives the lie to the idea that simply relinquishing control of a province constitutes progress. The local governments and security forces in these provinces do not represent some ideal of unified Iraqi control so much as they represent control by one faction or another. Assassinations of provincial governors and battles involving the Iraqi police are manifestations of militia violence, not evidence that the Iraqi government is facing down terrorists or militants. MUCH MORE
Iraqis are still dying from the sectarian violence LINK and the Turkish Army just finished an incursion into Northern Iraq, preceded with air strikes and artillery bombardments that have killed civilians, including women and children, in their attempts to quell the Kurdish rebellion and cross-border attacks from Iraq:
The Kurdish regional government has condemned the incursion.
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All true, but the problem isn't just CNN or Fox. The MSM in
general reflects the perspective of the US ruling class. In many or most ways, ruling class interests conflict with the interests of the rest of the population. Therefore all mass media outlets are going to be peddling propaganda & betraying most of the population, on a daily basis. That's their "job," so to speak -- their function in the system. They help make the population easy for the rulers to manage. On the surface, Fox might seem different than CNN, because it's explicitly Republican. But it isn't really much different. This is partly because there isn't much difference between Republicans and Democrats. Both parties and the media worship at the altar of "Americanism," our state religion. This religion is based on ideas like American Exceptionalism, corporate capitalism, militarism, & imperialism. Challenges to these fundamentalist beliefs are regarded as rank heresy & would be met (if they ever occurred) with the equivalent of crucifixion. The NY Times, Washington Post, and PBS & NPR, aren't really much different either. Very few local papers are any different. Their very limited differences are mostly questions of style. You can choose to get your daily Americanism propaganda in "highbrow intellectual" style, by consuming the NYT, PBS and NPR. Or you can get it "ignorant belligerent redneck" style, by consuming Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, or Fox. But it's all the same. In every case, the US is always portrayed as a great defender of "democracy," always a force for good in the world. Corporate capitalism is always portrayed as "freedom." In the Land of Americanism, the US has the unique & divine right to send troops into any country for any reason -- and it will always be deemed "justified," an attempt to "do good." In this Land, the notion that the US government is ever guilty of terrible crimes is treated as absolutely unthinkable. To even suggest otherwise is "blasphemy." by Richard Mynick (2 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 1552 comments [255 recommended, 5 rejected]) on Thursday, Dec 20, 2007 at 12:18:26 PM  (0+)
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TIME
1st off, TIME has not always chosen what others consider a popular choice for Person of the year....hell Hitler made it one year! 2ndly, we all need to take responsibility in scanning the news for ourselves and deciding what is being published as truthful or scandelous. Whether we like it or not, we will always be faced with the ridiculous task of deciphering the news for ourselves... by lyric6a (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments) on Thursday, Dec 20, 2007 at 1:06:24 PM (0+)
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CIA Media is still in play
American fanatics are so worried about the democracy in other countries that we are losing our own. In the Nixon administration CIA Director GHW Bush Sr was in charge of the CIA cold war domestic media disinformation program called Operation Mocking Bird which employed thousands of American journalist and those in mass media to spy on Americans and to spread ther CIA dogma for local consumption in clear violation of the law. To this day the CIA has not released all the names of this nations top journalist who were on the pay role of the CIA. I feel that Anderson Cooper of CNN is on the CIA pay role because he belongs to a secret society at Yale, who in turned at the CIA. He has family who was connected to OSS and the CIA. Bush used these CIA assets in the press to help him get elected. Bush is still using the CIA to put disinformation and deception into the American press. It is a long time historical fact that the CIA since the 1940's has been wanting to privatize all of the economies in the middle east to put the oil and the natural resources in the hands of America's elite. The US Army has been fighting insurgencies and counter insurgencies since they killed their first Indian. The Iraqis people are now the US Army's new Indians on the block to pacify to lay the foundation for American Corporation's. Nothing has changed. All is the same! General Petraeus did not write a new report on the insurgency. He just took a copy of the one his father in law General William Knowlton who was in charge of the pacification of the Vietnam people during his two tours in Vietnam who helped to run-Operation Phoenix to get rid of his oppositions. Sound familiar! The problem with General Petraeus is that he is not a real soldier. He is a George Bush in uniform. He has never shed the blood of his enemy! He has never killed any one in the line of duty! He is not a combat officers. Just in name only! by matt (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 16 comments) on Thursday, Dec 20, 2007 at 2:05:05 PM (0+)
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Nice opening sentence
Your nouns doesn't agrees with your verbs. by Howie Kurtz (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments) on Thursday, Dec 20, 2007 at 3:37:26 PM (0+)
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Ratings
I have a radical theory that ultimately the MSM does care about its ratings. I do my part by never watching FOX and only very rarely turning on CNN. In fact TV has deteriorated so much I really don't watch it much any more. I do watch Keith Olberman's show and I watch Democracy Now. Sometimes I turn on CSPAN, watch Jon Stewart or Steve Colbert and I watch an occasional movie. If everyone followed my viewing pattern, FOX would soon be off the air and CNN would probably follow - or, more likely they would change their programming. Let me add that there are great alternatives. There is an abundance of good programming on the internet, just check out http://www.opednews.com/progressive_radio.htm. Check out some of the many podcasts that are available and maybe get an MP3 player so you have some mobility while listening. I'm still listening to shows that were broadcast in November that I've not yet had time to hear. by PrMaine (13 articles, 13 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 510 comments [22 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Saturday, Dec 22, 2007 at 8:17:29 AM (0+)
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