Free Press?

[Malcom]

Reporter gets 8 years in prison fortalking to "the wrong" people.

Iranian dissident jailed for royal links. Reports from Iran say an opposition journalist has been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for having contacts with the former royal family.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/wor...00/1967939.stm

[Horus]

how did you get this back up to the top malcom?

[Fidayee]

hey malcom your doing a fine job deleting your old posts and posting them again to bump them up again lol, how low can you go

can you tell me how many threads did you bump that way today

[Horus]

isn't it something? and it thiks no one catches on

[Malcom]

3. Can you tell me how many new threads horus started this week? Had to check: 38 in 2 days.

[Horus]

who cares...at least when i bump a thread to the top i do it honestly and say something like "i really liked this one and it didn't get much attention so i hope you dont mind me bumping to the top"

[Truthteller]

Originally posted by Malcom
Reporter gets 8 years in prison fortalking to "the wrong" people. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/wor...00/1967939.stm

Iran is proof positive of why what Osama Bin Laden wants - an Islamic world ruled by a Taliban-like regime - simply isn't going to work.

[Horus]

i am sure you and malcom have a lot to talk about....why dont you take it to a zionazi forum

Originally posted by Truthteller



Iran is proof positive of why what Osama Bin Laden wants - an Islamic world ruled by a Taliban-like regime - simply isn't going to work.

[Truthteller]

Originally posted by Horus
i am sure you and malcom have a lot to talk about....why dont you take it to a zionazi forum

Censorer...hater of free speech...

bwahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!

[Horus]

not so...no one wanted to talk about this and it ended up on the 5th page back so malcom deleted it and posted it again

Originally posted by Truthteller


Censorer...hater of free speech...

bwahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!

[Gengis_Khan]

Malcolm are you the cokoo that flew over the insane asylem?

your own government is 100 times worse. Get a grip of the facts before you point fingers:

MOCKINGBIRD
The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA

"You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month." CIA operative discussing with Philip Graham, editor Washington Post, on the availability and prices of journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories. "Katherine The Great," by Deborah Davis (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1991)

As terrible as it is to live in a nation where the press in known to be controlled by the government, at least one has the advantage of knowing the bias is present, and to adjust for it. In the United States of America, we are taught from birth that our press is free from such government meddling. This is an insideous lie about the very nature of the news institution in this country. One that allows the government to lie to us while denying the very fact of the lie itself.

The Alex Constantine Article
CIA's Operation MOCKINGBIRD
by Alex Constantine
Who Controls the Media?

Soulless corporations do, of course. Corporations with grinning,
double-breasted executives, interlocking directorates, labor squabbles and flying capital. Dow. General Electric. Coca-Cola. Disney. Newspapers should have mastheads that mirror the world: The Westinghouse Evening Scimitar, The Atlantic-Richfield Intelligentser . It is beginning to dawn on a growing number of armchair ombudsmen that the public print reports news from a parallel universe - one that has never heard of politically-motivated assassinations, CIA-Mafia banking thefts, mind control, death squads or even federal agencies with secret budgets fattened by cocaine sales - a place overrun by lone
gunmen, where the CIA and Mafia are usually on their best behavior. In this idyllic land, the most serious infraction an official can commit __is a the employment of a domestic servant with (shudder) no residency status.This unlikely land of enchantment is the creation of MOCKINGBIRD.

It was conceived in the late 1940s, the most frigid period of the cold war, when the CIA began a systematic infiltration of the corporate media, a process that often included direct takeover of major news outlets.

In this period, the American intelligence services competed with
communist activists abroad to influence European labor unions. With or without the cooperation of local governments, Frank Wisner, an undercover State Department official assigned to the Foreign Service, rounded up students abroad to enter the cold war underground of covert operations on behalf of his Office of Policy Coordination. Philip Graham, __a graduate of the Army Intelligence School in Harrisburg, PA, then publisher of the Washington Post., was taken under Wisner's wing to direct the program code-named Operation MOCKINGBIRD.

"By the early 1950s," writes formerVillage Voice reporter Deborah
Davis in Katharine the Great, "Wisner 'owned' respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications vehicles, plus stringers, four to six hundred in all, according to a former CIA analyst." The network was overseen by Allen Dulles, a templar for German and American corporations who wanted their points of view represented in the public print. Early MOCKINGBIRD influenced 25 newspapers and wire agencies consenting to act as organs of CIA propaganda. Many of these were already run by men with reactionary views, among them William Paley (CBS), C.D. Jackson (Fortune), Henry Luce (Time) and Arthur Hays Sulzberger (N.Y. Times).

Activists curious about the workings of MOCKINGBIRD have since been appalled to f__ind in FOIA documents that agents boasting in CIA office memos of their pride in having placed "important assets" inside every major news publication in the country. It was not until 1982 that the Agency openly admitted that reporters on the CIA payroll have acted as case officers to agents in the field.

"World War III has begun," Henry's Luce's Life declared in March,
1947. "It is in the opening skirmish stage already." The issue
featured an excerpt of a book by James Burnham, who called for the creation of an "American Empire," "world-dominating in political power, set up at least in part through coercion (probably including war, but certainly the threat of war) and in which one group of people ... would hold more than its equal share of power."

George Seldes, the famed anti-fascist media critic, drew down on Luce in 1947, explaining tha__t "although avoiding typical Hitlerian phrases, the same doctrine of a superior people taking over the world and ruling it, began to appear in the press, whereas the organs of Wall Street were much more honest in favoring a doctrine inevitably leading to war if it brought greater commercial markets under the American flag."

On the domestic front, an abiding relationship was struck between the CIA and William Paley, a wartime colonel and the founder of CBS. A firm believer in "all forms of propaganda" to foster loyalty to the Pentagon, Paley hired CIA agents to work undercover at the behest of his close friend, the busy grey eminence of the nation's media, Allen Dulles. Paley's designated go-between in his dealings with the CIA was Sig Mickelson, president of CBS News from 1954 to 1961.

The CIA's assimilation of old guard fascists was overseen by the
Operations Coordination Board, directed by C.D. Jackson, formerly an executive of Time magazine and Eisenhower's Special Assistant for Cold War Strategy. In 1954 he was succeeded by Nelson Rockefeller, who quit a year later, disgusted at the administration's political infighting. Vice President Nixon succeeded Rockefeller as the key cold war strategist.

"Nixon," writes John Loftus, a former attorney for the Justice
Department's Office of Special Investigations, took "a small boy's
delight in the arcane tools of the intelligence craft - the hidden
microphones, the 'black' propaganda." Nixon especially enjoyed his visit to a Virginia training camp to observe Nazis in the "special
forces" drilling at covert operations.

One of the fugitives recruited by the American intelligence
underground was heroin smuggler Hubert von Blücher, the son of A German ambassador. Hubert often bragged that that he was trained by the Abwehr, the German military intelligence division, while still a civilian in his twenties. He served in a recon unit of the German Army until forced out for medical reasons in 1944, according to his wartime records. He worked briefly as an assistant director for Berlin-Film on a movie entitled One Day ..., and finished out the war flying with the Luftwaffe, but not to engage the enemy - his mission was the smuggling of Nazi loot out of the country. His exploits were, in part, the subject of Sayer and Botting's Nazi Gold, an account of the knockover of the Reichsbank at the end of the war.

In 1948 he flew the coop to Argentina. Posing as a photographer named Huberto von Bleucher Corell, he immediately paid court to Eva Peron, presenting her with an invaluable Gobelin tapestry (a selection from the wealth of artifacts confiscated by the SS from Europe's Jews?). Hubert then met with Martin Bormann at the Hotel Plaza to deliver German marks worth $80 million. The loot financed the birth of the National Socialist Party in Argentina, among other forms of Nazi revival.

In 1951, Hubert migrated northward and took a job at the Color
Corporation of America in Hollywood. He eked out a living writing
scripts for the booming movie industry. His voice can be heard on a film set in the Amazon, produced by Walt Disney. Nine years later he returned to Buenos Aires, then Düsseldorf, West Germany, andestablished a firm that developed not movie scripts, but anti-chemical warfare agents for the government. At the Industrie Club in Düsseldorf
in 1982, von Blücher boasted to journalists, "I am chief shareholder of Pan American Airways. I am the best friend of Howard Hughes. The Beach Hotel in Las Vegas is 45 percent financed by me. I am thus the
biggest financier ever to appear in the Arabian Nights tales dreamed up by these people over their second bottle of brandy."

Not really. Two the biggest financiers to stumble from the drunken
dreams of world-moving affluence were, in their time, Moses Annenberg, publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer, and his son Walter , the CIA/mob-anchored publisher of the TV Guide. Like most American high-rollers, Annenberg lived a double life. Moses, his father, was a scion of the Capone mob. Both Moses and Walter were indicted in 1939 for tax evasions totalling many millions of dollars - the biggest case in the history of the Justice Department. Moses pled guilty and agreed to pay the government $8 million and settle $9 million in assorted tax claims, penalties and interest debts. Moses received a three-year sentence. He died in Lewisburg Penitentiary.

Walter Annenbeg, the TV Guide magnate, was a lofty Republican. On the campaign trail in April, 1988, George Bush flew into Los Angeles to woo Reagan's kitchen cabinet. "This is the topping on the cake," Bush's regional campaign director told the Los Angeles Times. The Bush team met at Annenberg's plush Rancho Mirage estate at Sunnylands, California. It was at the Annenberg mansion that Nixon's cabinet was chosen, and the state's social and contributor registers built over a quarter-century of state political dominance by Ronald Reagan, whose acting career was launched by Operation MOCKINGBIRD.

The commercialization of television, coinciding with Reagan's
recruitment by the Crusade for Freedom, a CIA front, presented the intelligence world with unprecedented potential for sowing propaganda and even prying in the age of Big Brother. George Orwell glimpsed the possibilities when he installed omniscient video surveillance technology in 1948, a novel rechristened 1984 for the first edition published in the U.S. by Harcourt, Brace. Operation Octopus, according to federal files, was in full swing by 1948, a surveillance program that turned any television set with tubes into a broadcast transmitter. Agents of Octopus could pick up audio and visual images with the equipment as far as 25 miles away.

Hale Boggs was investigating Operation Octopus at the time of his
disappearance in the midst of the Watergate probe.

In 1952, at MCA, Actors' Guild president Ronald Reagan - a screen idol recruited by MOCKINGBIRD's Crusade for Freedom to raise funds for the resettlement of Nazis in the U.S., according to Loftus - signed a secret waiver of the conflict-of-interest rule with the mob-controlled studio, in effect granting it a labor monopoly on early television programming. In exchange, MCA made Reagan a part owner. Furthermore, historian C. Vann Woodward, writing in the New York Times, in 1987, reported that Reagan had "fed the names of suspect people in his organization to the FBI secretly and regularly enough to be assigned 'an informer's code number, T-10.' His FBI file indicates intense collaboration with producers to 'purge' the industry of subversives."

No one ever turned a suspicious eye on Walter Cronkite, a former
intelligence officer and in the immediate postwar period UPI's Moscow correspondent. Cronkite was lured to CBS by Operation MOCKINGBIRD's Phil Graham, according to Deborah Davis.

Another television conglomerate, Cap Cities, rose like a horror-film
simian from CIA and Mafia heroin operations. Among other
organized-crime Republicans, Thomas Dewey and his neighbor Lowell Thomas threw in to launch the infamous Resorts International, the corporate front for Lansky's branch of the federally-sponsored mob family and the corporate precursor to Cap Cities. Another of the investors was James Crosby, a Cap Cities executive who donated $100,000 to Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign. This was the year that Resorts bought into Atlantic City casino interests. Police in New jersey attempted, with no success, to spike the issuance of a gambling license to the company, citing Mafia ties.

In 1954, this same circle of investors, all Catholics, founded the
broadcasting company notorious for overt propagandizing and general spookiness. The company's chief counsel was OSS veteran William Casey, who clung to his shares by concealing them in a blind trust even after he was appointed CIA director by Ronald Reagan in 1981.

"Black radio" was the phrase CIA critic David Wise coined in The
Invisible Government to describe the agency's intertwining interests in the emergence of the transistor radio with the entrepreneurs who took to the airwaves. "Daily, East and West beam hundreds of propaganda broadcasts at each other in an unrelenting babble of competition for the minds of their listeners. The low-price transistor has given the hidden war a new importance," enthused one foreign correspondent.

A Hydra of private foundations sprang up to finance the propaganda push. One of them, Operations and Policy Research, Inc. (OPR), received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the CIA through private foundations and trusts. OPR research was the basis of a television series that aired in New York and Washington, D.C. in 1964, Of People and Politics, a "study" of the American political system in 21 weekly installments.

In Hollywood, the visual cortex of The Beast, the same CIA/Mafia
combination that formed Cap Cities sank its claws into the film
studios and labor unions. Johnny Rosselli was pulled out of the Army during the war by a criminal investigation of Chicago mobsters in the film industry. Rosselli, a CIA asset probably assassinated by the CIA, played sidekick to Harry Cohn, the Columbia Pictures mogul who visited Italy's Benito Mussolini in 1933, and upon his return to Hollywood remodeled his office after the dictator's. The only honest job Rosselli ever had was assistant purchasing agent (and a secret investor) at Eagle Lion productions, run by Bryan Foy, a former producer for 20th Century Fox. Rosselli, Capone's representative on the West Coast, passed a small fortune in mafia investments to Cohn.
Bugsy Seigel pooled gambling investments with Billy Wilkerson,
publisher of the Hollywood Reporter.

In the 1950s, outlays for global propaganda climbed to a full third of the CIA's covert operations budget. Some 3, 000 salaried and contract CIA employees were eventually engaged in propaganda efforts. The cost of disinforming the world cost American taxpayers an estimated $265 million a year by 1978, a budget larger than the combined expenditures of Reuters, UPI and the AP news syndicates.

In 1977, the Copely News Service admitted that it worked closely with the intelligence services - in fact, 23 employees were full-time
employees of the Agency. Most consumers of the corporate media were - and are - unaware of the effect that the salting of public opinion has on their own beliefs. A
network anchorman in time of national crisis is an instrument of
psychological warfare in the MOCKINGBIRD media. He is a creature from the national security sector's chamber of horrors. For this reason consumers of the corporate press have reason to examine their basic beliefs about government and life in the parallel universe of these United States.

[cruiser]

Well Mr. Khan, all I can say is that there is no doubt you must be a huge Oliver Stone fan.

[Horus]

another silly comment by you big surprise

Originally posted by cruiser
Well Mr. Khan, all I can say is that there is no doubt you must be a huge Oliver Stone fan.

[cruiser]

Knock yourself out, Horus. You are on the permanent ignore list. Sort of turns you into a barking dog locked inside a soundproof room. Right where you belong." WOOF !!" What ?

[Nighthawk]

LOL Cruiser...he's on my ignore list too. I wonder just how many people's ignore list he is on?

I was thinking more like a dog without a voice box. It still makes a little noise ("click here to see post"), but it's much quieter than before.

[Truthteller]

Originally posted by Gengis_Khan

Who Controls the Media?

Soulless corporations do, of course. Corporations with grinning,
double-breasted executives, interlocking directorates, labor squabbles and flying capital. Dow. General Electric. Coca-Cola. Disney.

And Horus had me convinced it was Jews who own the media...I'm so disappointed...

...I need a hug....sniff...

[Horus]

two people with nothing to say and they ignore me? to funny

Originally posted by Nighthawk
LOL Cruiser...he's on my ignore list too. I wonder just how many people's ignore list he is on?

I was thinking more like a dog without a voice box. It still makes a little noise ("click here to see post"), but it's much quieter than before.

[Truthteller]

Originally posted by Horus
two people with nothing to say and they ignore me? to funny

Well, if you put that into an algebra equation, you'd come out as...Less Than Zero.

I like that handle for you.

[Horus]

i could care less what you like

Originally posted by Truthteller


Well, if you put that into an algebra equation, you'd come out as...Less Than Zero.

I like that handle for you.

[Malcom]

been on mine for awhile, every now and then I hit "here"

This person is on your Ignore List. To view this post click [here]

just to see nothings changed. Free press; doesn't mean it's all perfect, free of coruption or always reports the whole truth. Tabloid papers are part of the press but people with an ounce of common sence don't accetp that as "news". Most "real" American news sorces have to verify facts from a differant scorce, if that can't be done it's either not reported or clearly reported as unconfirmed or as opinion.

[Amir Ali]

Peace be upon you all,

To Malcom and all who claim the US has a totally press free from govt or other influence.

Would it change your mind about the influence of the Israeli lobby in America if I told you....that an article entitled "Israel is not America's Greatest Ally" and captioned "Its time to recognize that Israel's interests do not always match up with America's" is printed in the April 8th, 2002 edition of Newsweek International (Atlantic Edition - which is distributed in Europe and Africa) but NOT in the magazine's local edition?

Free press? Yeah right.....

[Machiavelli]

i think you may be mistaking 'pandering to the public' with 'government controlled media'

[MalcomBanned4?]

US has a totally press free from govt or other influence.

Never said or implied that, only the most free in the world. Most "influence" is that of the dollar.

[Amir Ali]

Peace be upon you Machiavelli,

I doubt you would say that if you read the article...

I would not call it "pandering to the public" but more like "hiding the truth from the public".

Its clear that article was not published in the US edition of Newsweek deliberately so people will not hear the truth about US position on Israel. It would upset Israel - we can't have that can we? Just imagine if Americans realized it is not in our best interests to support Israel...what would happen?

Why do you think it was not published in the US?

As for "govt controlled media" - did you know Newsweek subscriptions were dropped from all govt offices and replaced by Time years ago...you'll be surprised to learn why.

Peace.

[Shaloom]

Many heads will roll. First to go those lying bought out politicians in both houses. The zionists will be packing their bags, as the American people will feel so betrayed and used, yet stabbed in the back aslo.

[Boba Fett]

do any of you ever investigate or research your alligations or do you just look at a anti-isreali web site and repeat what you read?

Time and time again I here you all talk of the zionist conspiracy and how the media (in this case Newsweek) is controlled and we are all being fooled. How do you come to this conclussion? By extrapolating one editing descision into a international conspiracy.

so fricken what if that particular story was in the international version and not the US version. The US version also does not include indepth coverage of the world cup...are the jews trying to keep americans blind to the world of soccer aswell?

Here are some examples of recent articles that are negative toward isreal that have appeared in Newsweek.

April 29th, 2002
"Still under siege"
An Article slamming the Isreali government fo blocking the Jenin investigations

April 2nd 2002
an article by Chris ****ey
"If war spreads it will be isreal's fault"

April 16th, 2002
Patti Davis
Slams isreal for raids on the palestinians hold up in the church.

Wow, yup...if you would actually think about a topic first rather than jump to some retarded conclussion that fits your prejudices you would relize that this whole media controlled by zionists BS is just that BS.

Fett

[pathenry]

It does sound like an opinion piece rather than news. I've attempted at times to suggest to the younger members of this community that, "A GIANT BURGER," is opinion while "
"A EIGHT OUNCE PATTY BEFORE FRYING" is a fact. If one removed the opinion words from the Muslim posts they would look as big as a McDonald burger, too.

Nevertheless Amir Ali's point is, and remains, that Newsweek said one thing for one audience and another for a second. What is the ownership of Newsweek? Since the US is not a totalitarian government, the press is not free but costs something to the consumer who can take their money elsewhere. Pandering is a quick but correct answer. Any other ideas on why they might have done as Amir Ali says. Is the Arab market big in Europe?

May I thank again those who used the USER CP button and EDIT PROFILE tab to put their location into their profile and thus associate their messages with their location.

Pat.

[baba]

Originally posted by MalcomBanned4?
Never said or implied that, only the most free in the world. Most "influence" is that of the dollar.

No, I think the British press is more free.

[baba]

Originally posted by pathenry
Any other ideas on why they might have done as Amir Ali says. Is the Arab market big in Europe?

No, but I'd say Europeans are more open-minded...

[Machiavelli]

Originally posted by Amir Ali
Its clear that article was not published in the US edition of Newsweek deliberately so people will not hear the truth about US position on Israel. It would upset Israel - we can't have that can we? Just imagine if Americans realized it is not in our best interests to support Israel...what would happen?

i find your conclusion hard to understand. ppl in the us don't rely on just newsweek for their information. And, how would israel be kept from being upset if the article only runs in the international edition? probably more accurate: americans, in the US, might not appreciate the article. as i said before: 'pandering to the public' I dont see how this article would convince americans to stop supporting israel either.

Why do you think it was not published in the US?

as i said before, because they want to sell copies of their paper or magazine or whatever it is.

As for "govt controlled media" - did you know Newsweek subscriptions were dropped from all govt offices and replaced by Time years ago...you'll be surprised to learn why.

Peace.

why?

the way i see it, the media isnt influencing the ppl in the US, half as much as the ppl in the US are influencing the media. Perhaps to further my point ... Ali, how many local papers are you able to get where you live? out of those papers, how many do you buy? of the ones you buy, how many are more along the lines of your own personal politics(local, state, fed, international)?

[Abdul Haq]

and then there is the factor of AIPAC and ADL complaining about stories that are to critical to israel....cant have that now right?

[Abdul Haq]

About Bias in the Media

by Ramzy Baroud - March 17, 2002

The issue of western media bias, especially bias in the United States, is accepted as a matter of fact in the Middle East, and by perhaps millions of people in the West who are witnesses to such bias every time they open a newspaper, sometimes just by glancing at the headlines.

The subject of media bias came up and was thoroughly discussed in a recent Arab and Muslim journalists conference held in Chicago, where prominent American and Arab-American journalists attended and took part in the heated discussion.

American journalists, at least those who attended insisted that there is no such bias, and that both parties, pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel can make the same claim of not liking the wording of a certain article or protesting the use of an image or a tasteless comic.

Of course to those who have been following the coverage of the conflict know that such a justification is misleading, and that every mainstream newspaper, or TV network or radio station is often colored with a certain political leaning that not only influences the overall media perception of a certain issue, but every report written, word uttered, image broadcast, type of individual interviewed or report cited.

To demonstrate, I visited the Voice of America news web site and reviewed the most updated report dealing with the Middle East.

In the news report tilted: "Bush Scolds Israel for Offensive Against Palestinians", which might appear balanced, is an excellent example of that bias,

Regardless of the reporter's own skill in conveying Bush's message, one cannot help but protest the following conclusion, offered by the reporter's own understanding of the ongoing violence:

"This month, more than 160 Palestinians and nearly 60 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks, suicide bombings and Israeli reprisals.."

It’s amazing how much bias this seemingly innocent attempt by the reporter to help us, the ignorant readers to come into better understanding of the Middle East crisis, contained.

It has not only justified Israel's killing of 160 Palestinians (although according to international rights organizations these victims were mostly unarmed civilians, children, medical workers and journalists), but he shifted the entire flow of events.

Those who followed the news must remember that the surge of violence was provoked by Israel's continued assassination policy, which provoked Palestinian retaliation, and that the so-called Israeli reprisals were systematic and intense bombings (criticized by numerous western officials for being grave violations of international law) that reached almost every Palestinian town and refugee camp.

However, the above quote truly depicts the current state of American media, which manages to place the blame of the victim and spare the aggressor any blame.

Let statistics speak for themselves. According to a recent survey, only 3 percent of the American public even know that the West Bank and Gaza are occupied territories. Only 7-11 percent of the American public, according to recent CNN polls sympathize with the Palestinian people's plight.

Do you see the problem? How can Americans come to grips with the reality of the Middle East situation if they don't know the most basic, fundamental and essential fact that have fueled the conflict for the last 35 years?

Its mind-boggling that although the Middle East conflict remains a main focus for the American media, the American public still knows very little, of course except that Palestinians are terrorists, Israel is defending itself, and that Palestinians teach their children hate, and want to throw all Israelis into the sea.

Where is journalistic integrity? No, really, I would like to know. How can a reporter go to sleep comfortably, knowing that he/she propagated falsehood at the expense of a traumatized and oppressed nation?

The American media in particular shifted its priorities and overlooked essential facts to avoid honest reporting on the Arab-Israeli conflict.

For example, the issue of Iraq is never mentioned in the media without the mentioning over and over again, of how Iraq refuses to abide by international law and allow the return of weapons inspectors as instated by the United Nations..

So, if international law (despite the inaccuracies contained in the above claims) seems a major reference in reporting on the Iraqi issue, why not use the same reference to the Middle East crisis.

How often do we read or watch references in news reports in the US media that mentions UN resolutions 242, 338 dealing with the illegality of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories? No wonder why only a few Americans know that Palestinians are occupied by Israel.

How often do we read, watch or hear reports dealing with the right of return for Palestinian refugees and that such right is clearly emphasized in international law?

But references to suicide bombings, no matter what political and military contexts of which they were part, never cease to interest most of the US media, while Palestinians deaths often go unreported, and if they are, then a child becomes a militant, and a man gunned down by sniper in his own home is a suspected suicide bomber."

If the media is meant to educate the people on the truth, then the American media have done a lousy job. The question remains; Why is the American media so biased? And how do we counter such bias? How do we reach the alienated and deceived public? How do we tell them of their government's dishonest role in the conflict? How do we narrate to them how their tax money is used to purchase weapons that have killed thousands of innocent people?

These issues will certainly have to be confronted and some serious strategies need to be developed to answer them, for we cannot spend the rest of our lives complaining about the current state of the media, yet fail to come up with an alternative, an alternative that we need now more than ever.

[Boba Fett]

is that Amir ali's use of the newsweek article and it's absence in the US version proves nothing and only furthers the side of those that sees this zionist media control conspiracy as a load of BS.

Conspiracies (such as the zionist world plot) are propagated by powerless and are directed toward the powerfull as a defensive tool to explain their social position.

Those of you that see isreal as your enemy cannot understand why others see them in a different light. Especially when the majority of the people on the planet donnot take your side.

"Why ooh why do the isrealis enjoy the backing of more people than the palestinians? After all the isrealis are evil!!! can't the world see that?"

The world does not share your opinion of the isrealis...soo...the isrealis must be controlling the world.

This same delusion of the powerless effects the poor. "I am poor, not because I don't work hard, but because others don't want me to suceed" Some people must blame some one for their failures, just as the nazis blamed the well off jews of germany for all their problems. Just as poor people in the USA often blame the rich for thier problems. Even though it is the rich that enable the poor to find jobs and improve their position.

To back your delusion you search out tidbits of information and tenuously connect them and twist them to fit your delusion. After a while you are seeing conspiracy in the smallest and most insignificant things.

"The article MUST have been left out on purpose, they ran out of pepsi at that Burger King on purpose to foil me, I didn't get hired for that job because they know I am muslim somehow, I got that speeding ticket because I am brown in color and the government wants brown people to lose their liscences......" twisting everyday into the extra-ordinary.

I hope that you all can break free from your delusions...you may enjoy life a little more if you do.

Ps...Do any of you stay at the movies later and watch the credits of movies with stories you didn't agree with, just to see if any jewish names were involved in it's production?

Fett

[Abdul Haq]

oh please boba!!! enough of your non sense!!! you mean ethnic cleansing isn't going on in palestine?

and israel is the arabs friend right?

and sharon a man of peace?

and the article wazsn't printed here because why again zionist azpologist?

[Boba Fett]

I think we all can agree that writers and reports put their own personality and opinions in their stories. Also people tend to read publications that meet there politivcal bent (It just so happens that most american dislike muslim extremists, IE you won't here to many magazines praising them) The above posts concerning the sales of magazines should help you alot in that reagard.

As for the zionists controlling the media, If you or anyone still see some smokey room filled with curly haired conspirators you need help.

The "bias" of the media is in the eye of the beholder! The republican are for ever crying about the leftist bent of the media. The eco warriors are alway doing the same.

Just get used to it.

Fett

[Abdul Haq]

wrong americans are tired of being sold only what the israeli and their counter parts in USA see as good news.....things are going to change boba fett zionist propagandist and you better get used to it

[Boba Fett]

I never said that the jews in palestine are angels, In fact I support them withdrawing and payiong reparations in cold hard cash (they can sell some diamond mines)

I am not a zionist apologist...never have been.

I just am trying to bring a disenting "opinion" to the table.

I do however dislike religious extremists of all denominations...including jews (zionist) and muslims who want to rule the world.

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[Machiavelli]

heres a test.

name ONE unbiased newspaper in the world.

[Boba Fett]

lluw you really have a problem recognizing that your "opinions" are not fact.

[Boba Fett]

Originally posted by Machiavelli
heres a test.

name ONE unbiased newspaper in the world.

all are bias from a point of view and all are free from bias from a point of view.

I used to think the christian science monitor was good and that NPR was bias, Now I think they all suck.

I watch the daily show, with John stewart now. (he's a jew by the way)

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