Mainstream US Media Is Lost in Ukraine
Mainstream US Media Is Lost in Ukraine
March 16, 2014
Exclusive: The U.S. mainstream news media is reaching a new professional low point as it covers the Ukraine crisis by brazenly touting Official Washingtons propaganda themes, blatantly ignoring contrary facts and leading the American public into another geopolitical blind alley, writes Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry
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 Posts 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 regimes 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 medias 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.
More:
http://consortiumnews.com/2014/03/16/mainstream-us-media-is-lost-in-ukraine/
grasswire
(50,130 posts)babylonsister
(171,092 posts)Really?
Catherina
(35,568 posts)Is there even any coverage in the US of the protests in Donetsk where they want a referendum to secede from the putsch government too? The Washington Post, the NYT and the Guardian have outdone themselves. Thankfully the readership of the Guardian has been ripping its coverage to shreds and pointing out all their lies.
Rec'd
Cha
(297,692 posts)about RT?
Catherina
(35,568 posts)Their spots don't change. Rec'd.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Read progressive sites where I believe some threads are factual and know that some are not.
Here's hoping that no more blood shed in spilled in the Ukraine unlike Syria.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)That the gas attack was carried out by Syria's government has been more than proven.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/06/sarin-gas-attack-civilians-syria-government-un
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/world/europe/syria-united-nations.html?_r=0
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.547439
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/un-report-confirms-use-of-chemical-weapons-in-syria-a-922746.html
http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/09/20/sarin-gas-attack-just-one-syrian-atrocity-icc-should-pursue
Only Putin's paid and volunteer stooges deny it at this point.