Speakers say media bear some blame for Iraq war

[kentuck]

A truth they do not want to admit. Take away all the mirrors!
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http://www.madison.com/wisconsinstatejournal/local/60768.php

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Misleading and incomplete reporting by major news outlets helped President Bush steer America into war with Iraq, speakers said Friday during the opening session of a three-day National Conference on Media Reform at UW-Madison. <

"This war could never have taken place without the complicity of the news media," said John Stauber, author and founder of the Center for Media and Democracy, a group that seeks to expose corporate and government propaganda campaigns. "The media that sold this war doesn't want to examine how they did it." <

Amy Goodman, host of Pacifica Radio's "Democracy Now!" program, said war would stop if media outlets showed images of injured and dead Iraqi civilians, including children, as often as they showed images such as the toppling of a large statue of Saddam Hussein draped with an American flag. <

Goodman also faulted the media and U.S. government for failing to tally Iraqi casualties. She quoted Secretary of State Colin Powell as once having justified this by explaining that the military doesn't count enemy deaths.
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[scottcsmith]

1. Weapons of Mass Deception

Have you read "Weapons of Mass Deception" by Sheldon Rampton and John C. Stauber? It's an invaluable look at how the media has helped the Bush Administration sell a bogus war to America and to the world.

[newyawker99]

12. Hi scottcsmith!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[dbt]

2. Can't wait for THIS to hit CNN!

Where's my remote?

:eyes:
dbt

[RICHBUM]

10. I CANT WAIT for the SHIT to HIT the FAN!!!!!!!!!

THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT CLAIM THE MEDIA IS LIBERAL ARE CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS................... ANY IDEA WHY??? PERHAPS BECAUSE THEY THINK WE ARE STUPID ENOUGH TO BELIEVE THAT THE SAME LAME TALKSHOW HOSTS THAT CAME WITH NO SHAME PLAYIN THE BLAME GAME WE HAVE TO HEAR EVERY DAY ACTUALLY THINK THEY CAN CONVINCE US THEY ARE THE MINORITY MEDIA............. HELLO! MCFLY!! HELLO!!! WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!!

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH US???????????????????????

MICHAEL SAVAGE SAYS, EVERY DAY........ THE MEDIA IS LIBERAL......

HE ALSO SAYS LIBERALS WANT TO TAKE GUNS AWAY OUR GUNS.........

UH HUH... SURE BUDDY... YOU YOU SAVAGE PIECE OF SHIT!!!! WHATEVER YOU SAY YOU SINISTER CAUCASIAN COCK SUCKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SAVAGE ALSO SAYS LIBERALS ARE DEMONS.............. WTF?!?

GO AHEAD AND LISTEN TO HIM AND YOU'LL HEAR HIM REPEAT ALL OF THIS WITHOUT FAIL, HE'S NOTHING BUT A SNAIL, HIDING BEHIND THE SHELL OF A MEDIA MONOPOLY, WHERE LIBERALS CAN'T EVEN GET ON HIS SHOW BECAUSE THEY CAN'T GET PAST THE SCREENER UNLESS THEY WANT TO SUCK HIS DICK.

THIS ISN'T EQUAL REPRESENTATION, WHERE'S THE AIR TIME FOR THE PEOPLE THAT WANT TO KICK HIS ASS??? ONLY ASS KISSERS GET ON THE RADIO, I WOULDN'T CALL THAT EQUAL......

THE MEDIA IS OWNED BY THE GOVERNMENT, NOT THE PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY NOT LIBERALS!!!!!!!! TIME TO TAKEBACKTHEMEDIA.COM

[ComerPerro]

3. Before we get caught up in a frenzy of blaming the media

Let us not forget the men who envisioned this war.

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfled, Wolfowitz...

[Resistance Is Futile]

11. Before absolving the media

Before absolving the media, let us be aware that the neocons would have found it impossible to sell their brand of imperialist bullshit if the media had asked the right questions at the right time and not taken 'executive privilage' for an answer. "Shape of the world: views differ" is not good enough when dealing with an administration that is full of compulsive liars.

[Coldgothicwoman]

4. But the media is liberal!

Why would the librul media want to support a war?!? They must have been trying to sabotage it!

:eyes:

[janx]

5. It started with 9/11 and Afghanistan

and proceeded from there. All military coverage, all the time.

[maggrwaggr]

6. oh it started long before that .....

Sometime during the Clinton years journalism quietly died.

A new journalism needs to be born. It sure ain't gonna happen on cable television. Just when you think it can't get any worse, it does. CNN is now as bad as Pox News. Just in the last month or so.

[RICHBUM]

7. MEDIA LIBERAL??? AHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!!! OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!

WHOEVER THINKS THAT THE MEDIA IS ACTUALLY LIBERAL MUST HAVE BEEN HIT OVER THE HEAD BY GEORGE BUSH'S WAR MACHINE ONE TOO MANY TIMES.... AHAHAHA!!! I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE PEOPLE CAN BE SOOO GULLIBLE.

MICHAEL SAVAGE ALWAYS SPEWS THE LIE THAT THE "MEDIA IS LIBERAL", THIS IS MICHAEL SAVAGES WAY OF SAYING, FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!

THE REAL REASON AMERICA WENT TO WAR IS BECAUSE 40% OF THE PEOPLE ARE IDIOTS!

THE OTHER 60% HAS BETTER THINGS TO WORRY ABOUT, SO PRACTICALLY NOONE PROTESTED, THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A MILLION PEOPLE MARCHING IN THE CAPITAL THE DAY WE DECLARED WAR, BUT NOONE CARED THAT MUCH BECAUSE IT DIDN'T AFFECT US, PEOPLE ARE SOOOOOOOOOOOO SELFISH!!!!!!

[Coldgothicwoman]

9. I was being sarcastic hon. :)

[frank frankly]

8. I've already forwarded this to the executive editor of the local paper

that POS has gotten a lot of emails from me, mostly saying that the blood was on his hands.

fuckers.

[HFishbine]

14. And if my expereince is any indication

I would wager that's true of many, many local papers in the country.

[jonoboy]

13. it should be called the Fox/Murdoch/Iraq War