Bush's War on Freedom of the Press!

I knew there was a huge conspiracy by Bush & Karl Rove to control the media, but now it's finally being revealed as the most UNAMERICAN, Unpatriotic war on journalism ever launched in the US. It put's Hitler's propaganda machine to shame.

And it's criminal because attacks on the media have taken the form of outright murder by the Bush Administration (attacks on Al-Jazeera in Baghdad & Kabul).

Recent revelations have shown how the media has been completely compromised over the truth about the Iraq war.

Critics of Bush have also come under constant assault by right wing media, orchestrated by no less than Karl Rove himself.

Read the REAL story here.

http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/TimKarr/view?PostID=9013

 

I'm really hoping everyone will learn a valuable lesson in this debacle. You can't have democracy and control the press at the same time.

And you idiots republicans don't need to tell me the US isn't a democracy, because it is by definition. Democracy MEANS freedom of the press, which is ingrained in our Bill of rights.

But apparently a certain president hasn't bothered to read the fine print in that document.

I hope it really comes back to haunt them and every individual who has broken the law will be put in jail and never see daylight again. Thousands have died as a result, and we are now in an intractable, unwinnable war thanks to the way the press in the US has been muzzled ever since 9/11.

 

It's an interesting revelation that the US military is employing soldiers to write articles which are then placed in newspapers in Iraq by a civilian contractor who gives cash payments to the papers to include their "news".

So these stories are not written by journalists, but by propagandists. By paying for placement of this propaganda as news stories the US has undermined freedom of the press, corrupted the integrity of news organizations, and destroyed US credibility.

And that's just in Iraq.

So it begs the question of what Bush's minions are doing in the US itself. A clue comes from the criminal case against the former head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting who is accused of abusing his position to advance a conservative agenda within the CPB. He's also accused of embezzling funds for his own use, but that's just your typical republican corruption, nothing new there.

Of course all the GOP apparatchiks in the CPB have managed to alter the editorial & programming content on the Public network to avoid any criticism of the Bush Administration and to slant programming towards the conservative point of view.

With all this high level coordination of propaganda going on in the Bush Administration, all the money being thrown at this, and the inclusion of military personnel in propaganda activities, one must wonder what else this administation is up to...

Perhaps it can explain why people on active military duty appear regularly on liberal websites, like this one, to disparage views that don't conform to the Republican party line. If military personnel are assigned propaganda patrols, there are no limits to where they can spread it via the net.

So is that the truth?

Where are they on this thread? Why no replies from our usual suspects? Makes me wonder...

 

I might also point out that anyone who is indeed here as ordered thru military channels is probably breaking American law, not to mention compromising their own ethics (oh that's right their ethics are amputated during boot camp).

Perhaps with these revelations & indictments people who are under such orders will think twice and question them.

Is military & political propaganda actually being placed on free-speech and other liberal websites? Is it being paid for by US taxpayers? If so then you are doing yourself, your country and democracy a great disservice, and if you are indeed a freedom loving person, and a patriot you will confess your crimes and turn the tables against those who force you to break the law.

Information warfare is justified in certain circumstances. But to direct it against your own people, or those who are not "the enemy", is to attack those people, and it will work against your goals once it's been revealed.

Conspiring to mislead the American people in a time of war is very serious business. I'm looking forward to more indictments, and you can be sure it'll be the footsoldiers who take the fall for their leaders, who will all be pardoned eventually.

 

So no comment about the subject of this thread, Bush's war on Freedom of the press?

What's the matter? I guess it must be true then.

 

good question (for a change). But you SHOULD already know the answer.

First of all Iraq is a big country and supressing all the news coming from there is beyond the scope of the US military or any conspiracy.

Second, the REAL news about Iraq is much worse than you or I know, because we are not on the ground and news IS being censored by the US military.

How? Well few if any reporters are allowed out on their own. If they go by themselves not only do they risk their lives due to the lack of security in Iraq (thanks to the US invasion), but they are apt to be attacked by American troops as happened already to a number of independent journalists, or kidnapped by "terrorists" (some of whom might actually be CIA).

The only reporters authorized by the US to be in Iraq are those who are embedded with the military (and that DOES mean in bed with them, telling only their side of the story).

The US does have to report casualties, and that is a big part of the bad news that can't be repressed.

Most of the other bad news coming from Iraq is a result of the activities and submissions to the media by the insurgency and Al-Qaida. The US can't control these (much as it would like to), so if it wasn't for Al-Jazeera receiving and broadcasting the messages from the "enemy", we would all probably believe that everything is nice and friendly there in Iraq.

Car bombings are something the media can't miss especially when it happens outside their hotel.

The truth is the US controls virtually nothing outside the green zone, the oil installations and it's own bases. Iraq is complete chaos, and any other report is a lie. So if the US left Iraq today, virtually nothing would change except the Green zone & bases would be empty, and the target of Iraqi hate would be gone.

Oh, yeah, I suppose the US would lose control over Iraq's oil, something Cheney will never allow as long as he's in power.

 

Yeah, I had the same idea, that by having their way, the republicans would fuck up big time, and their day in the sun would be abruptly ended by scandal, indictments & jail time. And America would see the corrupt hypocritcal morality of the Republicans and vote them out once and for all.

But like you say, the Dems don't offer much of an alternative, but right now the stage is PERFECT for a third party or several alternative parties to gain a lot of power and undo the two party system at last!

Unfortunately this administration has created a legacy of debt, military involvement, loss of international prestige and world instability that will take generations to undo, if it is even possible to achieve.