De Commerciele Massamedia 9

De Amerikaanse news dissector Danny Schechter schrijft: 'Media Crimes Sanitize War Crimes in Iraq.
New York, June 1, 2006 — As events in Iraq continue to slip from bad to worse, the good news brigade is scrambling for new stories— - ‘anything, give me anything’ - to shore up what’s left of public support for a bloody war without end.As some feared and many predicted, the war hovers over our politics and the president who “brought it on.” He is, as the journalist Sid Blumenthal puts it, stuck in a “paradigm” of his own making. The operative word is the title and refrain of an early Springsteen song: “TRAPPED.”Another tipping point seems to have tipped.Fear and exhaustion are evident in our TV newsrooms, along with a continuing failure to recognize what is going on. The lack of insight is stunning; the quality of most of the news, pathetic.Even CBS’s brave Kimberly Dozier—may she fully recover—was not only embedded in practice with the U.S. military when she was wounded and her crew killed, but she seemed embedded mentally, seeking out a ‘feel good’ story to cheer the home front that the Bush Administration wants so badly to stay the course of his “long war.”In an e-mail sent to CBS, and only discovered after she went from being an embed to being in a bed—at a military hospital in Germany no less—she described the story she was going to be doing before another IED did its awful damage.' Lees verder: http://www.mediachannel.org/affalert420.shtml Of:
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