NY Times via TRUTHOUT
Kyoto, the International Criminal Court, "middle class" tax cuts, WMDs, Saddam/al Qa'ida link, terror training camps in Iraq, Saddam was involved in 9/11, "Cakewalk" warfare, "we have enough troops," "mission acomplished," Pvt. Jessica Lynch, Armstrong Williams, Jeff Gannon, The Social Security "crisis," "we do not condone torture..." This list could go on and on.
Why anyone in this country with half an ounce of intelligence believes anything that issues forth from this White House is beyond me.
It's a rather long article, but a good one about the Bush administration'd cynical efforts to lie using the time-honored institution of public relations, and "pseudo-journalism."
Or, to call a spade a spade,
PROPAGANDA.
2 comments:
I stumbled onto this website: http://www.serendipity.li/_home.html after reading Shan's post about Eisenhower.
The site is run by Peter Meyer who seems to be a computer scientist with the theory that 9/11 "was perpetrated, not by "Arab terrorists", but rather by elements within the US government — acting in cooperation with agents of a foreign government."
There is also an article written on the site recently that replies to an article in Popular Mechanic that debunked the top myths surrounding 9/11. (I mean myths with a small 'm'.)
Anyway, I was wondering if you had heard of this guy, because I'm not sure what to make of him.
Your objections to my objections are noted, Vanessa.
There is nothing inherently wrong with public relations. Like all human technologies and systems it can be misused (by both this political administration, the opposition--such as it is--and the news media), and that is what I'm referring to.
Journalists who become dependent on news releases are NOT DOING THEIR JOB. And journalists who do not subject news releases to the same rigorous tests of truth that we've come to expect are failing the discipline of journalism, and failing democracy.
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