- This topic is empty.
Viewing 2 posts - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)
-
Posts
-
We don’t understand America now,” he said. “Are they getting different news than us
Yes, we do.
Every foreign country I have travelled to this year has had completely different coverage of events in Iraq than we do here.
It’s like night and day and it makes you wonder.
Personally, I think news are slanted everyplace and there is no free press anyplace.
Quote:The American press, with few notable examples such as The New Yorker, until the lies about weapons of mass destruction became too much even for them, have aided and abetted in the increase of government power and been uncritical of the excesses of either the Congress or the Department of Homeland Security. Individual reporters who dared to question the President (I have in mind the treatment recently meted out to the doyenne of the White House press corps, Helen Thomas) have been cut out of the loop. Critical authors such as Susan Sontag have been all but banned from the airwaves.taken from http://www.pushhamburger.com/menace.htm . I chose this quote – although there are many to choose from, because it eloquently describes the press in the u.s.a.
Viewing 2 posts - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)