Parry has done an excellent job in recent weeks in spotlighting the media bias on Ukraine.
In his piece, "Ukraine, Through the U.S. Looking Glass," he wrote, "In my four-plus decades in journalism, I have never seen a more thoroughly biased and misleading performance by the major U.S. news media. Even during the days of Ronald Reagan -- when much of the government's modern propaganda structure was created -- there was more independence in major news outlets. There were media stampedes off the reality cliff during George H.W. Bush's Persian Gulf War and George W. Bush's Iraq War, both of which were marked by demonstrably false claims that were readily swallowed by the big U.S. news outlets.
"But there is something utterly Orwellian in the current coverage of the Ukraine crisis, including accusing others of "propaganda" when their accounts -- though surely not perfect -- are much more honest and more accurate than what the U.S. press corps has been producing." http://consortiumnews.com/2014/04/16/ukraine-through-the-us-looking-glass/
As for me, I can't say for sure what's going on with some of the media. It may be that in some cases top people in certain organizations agree with the "Neo-con" foreign policy of the Obama and Bush administrations and the utterly backwards and arrogant notion of "American exceptionalism." If so, reporters and editors below may feel obliged to fall in line with slanted coverage, or else. Probably a few reporters are neo-cons themselves, and write accordingly. In other cases, reporters feel a need, again for the sake of their careers, to play along with the administration they're covering, otherwise they'll lose access.
A really good report on Ukraine would start with this central question: why is the United States so obsessed with something going on in a country that is 8,000 miles away from its borders?
Moreover, what are our motives in aiding an unelected, far-right wing regime in Ukraine and constantly demonizing Russia and its leader Mr. Putin? It's certainly not about preserving the sanctity of international law, since we break it all the time. Stopping expansionism? How many bases do we have around the world?
Aren't we trying to undermine Russia, and possibly someday force regime change? And in effecting regime change, aren't we paving the way for private corporations to gain access to the vast mineral, oil and gas wealth of Eurasia, while at the same time removing a powerful patron of Iran and Syria --- enemies of both the U.S. and Israel?
That's the way I see it.
But I don't know for sure, I'm just asking.
I hope some people in the mainstream media, those who haven't totally sold out, will finally stand up and start asking similar questions.
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