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chegitz guevara
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Ft. Lauderdale, FL Communist Party of Apolyton
Jun 2000
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The Philadelphia Inquirer reports today on the utter failure of the media to inform the American public.
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A third of the American public believes U.S. forces have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, according to a recent poll. Twenty-two percent said Iraq actually used chemical or biological weapons.
But such weapons have not been found in Iraq and were not used.
Before the war, half of those polled in a survey said Iraqis were among the 19 hijackers on Sept. 11, 2001. But most of the Sept. 11 terrorists were Saudis; none was an Iraqi.
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Before the war, the U.S. media often reported as a fact the assertions by the Bush administration that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of illegal weapons.
During and after the war, reports of possible weapons discoveries were often trumpeted on front pages, while follow-up stories debunking the reports received less attention. |
Lest anyone try and tell me about those two "mobile WMD" trucks:
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An official British investigation into two trailers found in northern Iraq has concluded they are not mobile germ warfare labs, as was claimed by Tony Blair and President George Bush, but were for the production of hydrogen to fill artillery balloons, as the Iraqis have continued to insist. |
 Hydrogen gas . . . biological weapons?  FARTMAN!
From the (London) Observer.
Mmmhmmm, yes, our media is sooo liberal that they've really lit a fire under the Bush Administration. Yep, any day now he should be impeached because of the damning information they've gotten out to the American public. 
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Eli
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Israel
Jul 2000
time: 07:28
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Oedo :
Please changed your avatar, it freaks me out.
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Edan
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Originally posted by chegitz guevara
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports today on the utter failure of the media to inform the American public.
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A third of the American public believes U.S. forces have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, according to a recent poll. Twenty-two percent said Iraq actually used chemical or biological weapons.
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Is it just me or does that say more about the lack of attention of a third of the American public and less about the media?
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chegitz guevara
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Ft. Lauderdale, FL Communist Party of Apolyton
Jun 2000
time: 00:28
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Originally posted by Ming
Gee... a politican actually lied... |
That's not actually my point. Although lying to Congress is an impeachable and removable offence, lying to the American public is not. My point, is rather, about how the media has completely failed to inform the American public. A similar study after GW1 found that more people believed Kuwait was a democracy after the war than before the war. In other words, the media does not look critically at government propaganda (used here in the general sense, not the pajorative) or promote critical thinking among the American people.
Rather, in their quest to prove their loyalty, almost all opposing viewpoints (those would be the liberal ones) were shut out. Approximately 3% of the voices heard on the nightly news were anti-war. The best was NBC's Nightly News with 6%. Fox, oddly enough, was average (3%), and even beat out Dan Rather, who had 0% of viewpoints on his program from an antiwar perspective. MSNBC canceled their highest rated show, Donahue, because they were afraid it would become a haven for antiwar viewpoints.
Yeah, so, so liberal.
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