Reply #17: kudos [View All]

[Mandate My Ass]

Excellent analysis. I'd only add that the media is more than complicit, it's owned, operated and funded by the same corporate moguls who profit from the Iraq invasion and dismantling of civil, workers' and consumers' rights.

More on that here:

http://www.westernherald.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/02/21/3c75883ed6cf7?in_archive=1

"When you watch a news report on CBS or NBC, for example, extolling how the American military is "kicking ass" in Afghanistan and how good that is, consider thinking about the network's owners, Westinghouse and General Electric, who both incidentally have staked financial interests in government defense contracts.

"Taking news at face value, just like buying into an assumption that cannot be statistically or factually backed up -- the media just has a "liberal" bias -- leaves one in the dark. In a land of many democratic principles, as scholar Noam Chomsky has pointed out, an subtle "propaganda model of news" is the means to keeping the public pacified. With investigative skepticism and open inquiry, the truth in right-wing-slanted, corporate-saturated media news sources -- in addition to a long-lost attention span Ñ can surprisingly be found."