Zo ziet oorlog eruit. Voor oorlog koos de meerderheid van onze politici, gesteund door de commerciele massamedia. Dit is wat ze hebben veroorzaakt. Ze hebben andere mensen de hel ingestuurd om het smerige werk te doen. En zelf zitten ze nog steeds op dezelfde plek en kwekken maar door. In de VS, maar ook hier, in de polder.
Bill Moyers on Why the Press Bought the Iraq War
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Programming Note
Monday 23 April 2007
Monday 23 April 2007
The media took the Bush administration's Iraq claims at face value, but it didn't have to.
Bill Moyers Journal: "Buying the War" will broadcast on PBS on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 9:00 p.m. (check local listings - www.pbs.org/moyers).
The marketing of the war in Iraq by the administration has been much examined, but a critical question remains: How and why did the press buy it? The new Bill Moyers Journal documentary from PBS explores these very questions.
Bill Moyers and his team piece together the reporting that shows how the media were complicit in shaping the "public mind" toward the war, and ask what's happened to the press's role as skeptical "watchdog" over government power. This segment features the work of some intrepid journalists who didn't take the government's word at face value, including the team of reporters at Knight Ridder news service whose reporting turned up evidence at odds with the official view of reality.'
Bill Moyers Journal: "Buying the War" will broadcast on PBS on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 9:00 p.m. (check local listings - www.pbs.org/moyers).
The marketing of the war in Iraq by the administration has been much examined, but a critical question remains: How and why did the press buy it? The new Bill Moyers Journal documentary from PBS explores these very questions.
Bill Moyers and his team piece together the reporting that shows how the media were complicit in shaping the "public mind" toward the war, and ask what's happened to the press's role as skeptical "watchdog" over government power. This segment features the work of some intrepid journalists who didn't take the government's word at face value, including the team of reporters at Knight Ridder news service whose reporting turned up evidence at odds with the official view of reality.'
Zie voor een fragment: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042307P.shtml
Moyers: 'during the buildup to Iraq... very few journalists made mischief, and those who questioned the administration’s motives were largely ignored.
Since his days in Washington power circles, Moyers says, the “symbiotic relationship between the political elites and media elites has grown. When media elites are aggressive in their interrogation of public officials, they are demonized and vilified by the president’s party and cheerleaders.”
And now that most media outlets are owned by corporations “with vested interests in Washington policy, it makes it hard on journalists to blow the whistle in Washington because it reverberates upstairs to the guys with their lobbyists who are trying to solicit favors from the government.”
Moyer says the Bush administration was aided by vocal talk-show hosts and an organized network of bloggers. But he notes that the Times and the Post also bolstered claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction in front-page pieces from mid-2002 to March 2003, when the U.S. military invaded Iraq. They had a huge effect on other news organizations.'
Since his days in Washington power circles, Moyers says, the “symbiotic relationship between the political elites and media elites has grown. When media elites are aggressive in their interrogation of public officials, they are demonized and vilified by the president’s party and cheerleaders.”
And now that most media outlets are owned by corporations “with vested interests in Washington policy, it makes it hard on journalists to blow the whistle in Washington because it reverberates upstairs to the guys with their lobbyists who are trying to solicit favors from the government.”
Moyer says the Bush administration was aided by vocal talk-show hosts and an organized network of bloggers. But he notes that the Times and the Post also bolstered claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction in front-page pieces from mid-2002 to March 2003, when the U.S. military invaded Iraq. They had a huge effect on other news organizations.'
Lees verder:
http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/04/23/moyers-hammers-the-media-for-buying-the-war-in-iraq/
Zoals de Nederlandse commerciele massamedia die geen van alle zelf onderzoek deden naar de achtergronden en motieven van de bezetting van Irak. Zie ook: http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2006/11/olie-en-de-massamedia.html
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