Sunday, June 27, 2004

When propaganda and news collide. We saw Fahrenheit 9/11 last night and it really gets one thinking about what is news in our post-modern world.
"At the beginning of the conflict, there was a less critical examination of the facts because we were a nation still overcoming the 9/11 syndrome and seeking vengeance,” she says. ”You did not have a vigorous public demanding the truth. If anything, I think we tend to point the finger too quickly at the news media when the rest of us should have been putting pressure on the media and the government to provide us with a well-grounded rationale for war with Iraq other than that Saddam is evil and must go. The public accepted Bush's simplistic rationale and so the media skipped along to the same tune..”
SPECIAL REPORT: The 'Prop-Agenda' at War

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