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Western Populations Enmeshed In A Cocoon of Propaganda

Comment by Larry Ross, November 29, 2005


Once again we have John Pilger at his best revealing how even the revered BBC is little more than a sophisticated propagandist for the UK State. The BBC endlessly repeats Tony Blair's and George Bush lies over their illegal and totally unjustified war on Iraq. It carefully avoids reporting damming key facts about that war, as Pilger so ably documents.

The mass media in other countries - the U.S., Australia and New Zealand is just as bad and very much the servant of Bush-Blair-Howard pro-war propaganda.

It is only the Internet and a few independent journals and papers that save us all from living in a cocoon of ignorance. Even the NZ Listener appears to have capitulated by carefully skirting key issues.
How long can the Internet bastion hold out against the onslaught of the criminal-dominated Orwell's 1984 world?




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Mainstream journalism is the voice of rampant power

By John Pilger, ICH, November 25, 2005

 

The Indian writer Vandana Shiva has called for an "insurrection of subjugated knowledge." The insurrection is well under way. In trying to make sense of a dangerous world, millions of people are turning away from the traditional sources of news and information and to the World Wide Web, convinced that mainstream journalism is the voice of rampant power. The great scandal of Iraq has accelerated this. In the United States, several senior broadcasters have confessed that had they challenged and exposed the lies told about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, instead of amplifying and justifying them, the invasion might not have happened.

Such honesty has yet to cross the Atlantic. Since it was founded in 1922, the BBC has served to protect every British establishment during war and civil unrest. "We" never traduce and never commit great crimes. So the omission of shocking events in Iraq – the destruction of cities, the slaughter of innocent people, and the farce of a puppet government – is routinely applied. A study by the Cardiff School of Journalism found that 90 per cent of the BBC's references to Saddam Hussein's WMD suggested he possessed them and that "spin from the British and U.S. governments was successful in framing the coverage." The same "spin" has ensured, until now, that the use of banned weapons by the Americans and British in Iraq has been suppressed as news.

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