The US Media and Propaganda
November 23, 2015
The US Media and Propaganda
by Dave Lindorff
Are the American corporate media largely propaganda organs, or news organizations?
Here are a few points to consider, and then you the reader can decide. Check out how one should objectively answer these questions below, and then check how the US corporate media generally answer them:
1. If ISIS or Al Qaeda deliberately attacks a civilian venue as in Paris, killing dozens of civilians indescriminately, is it terrorism?
Objective answer: Yes
US media answer: Yes
2. If the US deliberately attacks a a civilian venue as in the case of the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing dozens of civilians indescriminately, is it terrorism?
Objective answer: Yes
US media answer: No
3. If the Chinese government takes control of a tiny island claimed by another nation, expands it, and puts a military installation on it, is it an example of aggression, a violation of international law, and a provocation?
Objective answer: Yes
US media answer: Yes
4. If the US government takes control and then refuses to relinquish a portion of a tiny
island owned by another country, in this instance Cuba, expands it and puts a military installation on it (as it has done now for decades in the case of Guantanamo Bay on the island of Cuba, is it an example of aggression, a violaton of international law and a provocation?
Objective answer: Yes
US media answer: No
More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/11/23/the-us-media-and-propaganda/
Good reads:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016137881
