Pro-War and Pro-Empire: Media’s Reporting on Ukraine as Terrible as It Was on Iraq

[Judi Lynn]

Pro-War and Pro-Empire: Media’s Reporting on Ukraine as Terrible as It Was on Iraq
By Washington's Blog
Global Research, March 17, 2014

After Giving Mea Culpas for Horrible Iraq Coverage, Media Does the Exact Same Thing On Ukraine


We noted last year that – despite all of the mea culpas for horrible Iraq coverage – the American media was doing the exact same thing in Syria.
In reality, it’s not just Iraq or Syria … the corporate media is always pro-war, and pro-empire.
After all, American media never discusses the fact that the U.S. has planned on taking control of Ukraine since 1997 … if not earlier.

Former Associated Press and Newsweek reporter Robert Parry notes:

As the Ukraine crisis continues to deepen, the mainstream U.S. news media is sinking to new lows of propaganda and incompetence. Somehow, a violent neo-Nazi-spearheaded putsch overthrowing a democratically elected president was refashioned into a “legitimate” regime, then the “interim” government and now simply “Ukraine.”

The Washington Post’s screaming headline on Sunday is “Ukraine decries Russian ‘invasion,’” treating the coup regime in Kiev as if it speaks for the entire country when it clearly speaks for only a subset of the population, mostly from western Ukraine. The regime’s “legitimacy” comes not from a democratic election but from a coup that was quickly embraced by the U.S. government and the European Union.

Objective U.S. journalists would insist on a truthful narrative that conveys these nuances to the American people, not simply behave as clumsy propagandists determined to glue “white hats” on the side favored by the State Department and “black hats” on everyone that the U.S. government disdains. But virtually the entire mainstream press corps has opted for the propaganda role, much as it has in the past. Think Iraq 2002-03.

You also might remember the mainstream media’s rush to judgment over the Sarin attack in Syria on Aug. 21, 2013. The State Department rashly blamed the incident on the Syrian government despite serious doubts inside the U.S. intelligence community. (Background)

More:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/pro-war-and-pro-empire-medias-reporting-on-ukraine-as-terrible-as-it-was-on-iraq/5373848

[newthinking]

1. It feels just a "little too much" like the lead up to Iraq. Cold war style.

[grahamhgreen]

2. War of the week.