US media subservient to the state

[DuctapeFatwa]

CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour says the US media allowed themselves to be 'intimidated' into following the US official line in Iraq. Veteran journalist Nicholas von Hoffman takes a tougher view... Simply put,' he argues, 'the American mass media put itself at the service of the state'.

Like many a sight seen in the deserts through which the US military’s Humvee jeeps drove this winter, the war was mostly mirage, something that evidently escaped the notice of the hundreds of correspondents sent to cover it. What one overheated television reporter compared to the Battle of the Somme was little more than what in Los Angeles they call a drive-by shooting.

It is only a mild exaggeration to say that American service personnel in Iraq were in greater danger from absent-mindedly-driven Coca-Cola trucks than from the opposing army, which had less firepower than that deployed by the police department in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Conquering by bribing people on the other side is an ancient and civilised form of warfare..General Tommy Franks, the man who ran the alleged war, as saying – by way of an explanation for the absurdly easy American victory – ‘I had letters from Iraqi Generals saying, “I now work for you.”’..The press duly and diligently reported on the tens of thousands of bombs dropped on the Iraqi military...We can only speculate as to why so little was made of the battle-free nature of the conflict. At least three reasons suggest themselves...

http://www.indexonline.org/news/20030919_unitedstates.shtml

[Hieronymus]

1. Thank God

for reporters like Christiane Amanpour and Nicholas von Hoffman.:yourock:

[La_Serpiente]

2. EVERYONE SHOULD WATCH THIS

Hey people,

There is a new documentary that will be shown on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2003. For those of you on the East Coast, it will start at 9 PM (EST). It is on PBS, so I would assume that it would start at 9 PM in all Time Zones. It does in Hawaii.

Anyhow, the show is called "Reporting America at War" . They have different reporters talk about their experiences in jounalism at war. The wars range from WW II to the current Iraq war. They also do an analysis of the Iraq War coverage.

Who is going to be on this show? Journalists like Christiane Amanpour, the one who criticized Fox News, Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist who was critical of the United States on Iraq State TV prior to the war, Walter Cronkite, the self-avowed liberal journalist, and Edward R. Murrow, the one who exposed the dictatorial Senator Joseph McCarthy. To find out the entire list of journlists, click here.

This looks like a wonderful piece and something that everyone should watch. To go to the main website, click here

Click here to see what time it will start in your area.

Edit:It is on Nov. 12th. Thanks.

[ComerPerro]

3. Is that tuesday or wednesday?

Wednesday is the 12th, Tuesday is the 11th.

I assume its Wednesday the 12th, and the "11" was a typo, right?

Thanks!

[in_cog_ni_to]

6. I saw this last week

and it's EXCELLENT! It shows a time when journalists like Murrow and Cronkite actually had INTEGRITY! With the exception of Christiane Amanpour and Peter Arnett, the journalists of today should watch this program to see what honest, ethical journalism is all about and THEN, HANG THEIR HEADS IN SHAME!

[dbt]

4. Amanpour is being too generous

US Media would have to have shown some inclination toward independent thought before it could have allowed itself to be intimidated. From the moment Gore announced his candidacy, it was quite apparent that the Media was in bu$h's camp.

To go von Hoffman one better, the Media put itself at the service of a State that it wanted to be a part of, then helped give it birth.

:puke:
dbt

[RainDog]

5. kick

and everyone should bookmark The Index on Censorship. Their 2004 edition of Top Censored Stories is out, too.

I'm so grateful to them for their watchdog work.