propaganda at its finest
February 22, 2009 by Betmo
i guess i wonder why anyone follows american news anymore. it’s obvious that they are in corporates’ pockets and they have a pretty clear agenda- propaganda. there is no real news in american media anymore. i haven’t subscribed to anything other than national geographic for years. i rarely read online news from any of the msm newspapers or broadcast media- and this is why:
american news source- new york times- iran may achieve nuclear capabilities by 2009
foreign news source- via juan cole- the hindu- IAEA finds iran not producing nuclear grade weapons
see, the american folks don’t bother to interview anyone directly involved in anything other than lobbying or think tanking. foreign news folks go to the folks who are actually involved in handling issues. juan cole has it quite right:
“US newspapers are complaining that they are losing money and may not survive. After they put all sorts of falsehoods about Iraq on their front pages, it may be that they fatally wounded their credibility with the US public. In any case, the above report does not show up anywhere on the web or in Lexis that I can find, except here in The Hindu, which tells me that someone is not doing their job.”
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