Media Coverage Disappears in the Iraq War “Endgame”

[struggle4progress]

Danny Schechter
Mediachannel.org

Thomas Friedman, the pro-war New York Times wiseman who critics say is angling for a job as "the Mayor of the Middle East," senses that the Iraq war is now in an "endgame." The translation of "endgame" for the uninitiated is this: a deal to make a terrible defeat for American intervention appear as a great victory. <snip>

There will be a "final offensive" against those faceless insurgents, with more blood-letting as a luxury hotel goes up in the Green Zone. There will not be a inquiry into how billions of dollars were siphoned off or stolen, or whether British or U.S. troops are inflaming tensions. The incident of British troops caught red-handed in Basra will be forgotten in the fog of war. <snip>

The American people are being kept in the dark about what is really happening, as less and less reporting is allowed to trickle out. We will continue to hear from hotel-based journalists offering stand-ups from the rooftops about the daily incidents and suicide bombs. But analyses of what those actions really mean—or who is behind them—are shifted to the back of the newspaper and lower down in the newscast. <snip>

http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-10-9/33131.html

[Inland]

1. News today is also entertainment, and there's no entertainment

value in the slow, the grinding, the pointless and, frankly, the goddamn BORING REPETITION of death and maiming and major offenses and capturing another No. 2.

It's all reruns. Bad TV.

[Angry Girl]

2. Reuters Says U.S. Troops Obstruct Reporting of Iraq

And if Reuters finally says it, well, you know....
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001217159

There is no American free press.

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