Will we have to take to the streets? We're being lied to and manipulated by the corporate media every single day! Read this through and wonder why you're not in an absolute rage!
WHAT WILL IT TAKE?
How Many More Lies Will the Media Tell
Before We Stop Them?
Editor, TvNewsLIES.org - May, 2005
This is why so many good people support this criminal administration. They are good people with bad information!
This is not a matter of bias in the media; it is a matter of deception.
During this, my third year as editor of TvNewsLIES.org, I am stunned by the lack of outrage towards our news media by the people of this country.
How surreal do things have to get before we decide to stop the madness? What level of hypocrisy do our media have to reach before we explode? Are we waiting until there is no option other than taking to the streets to restore control of the airways to the citizens of this country? What is taking place today within our news media is beyond anything a democratic society can withstand. If our democracy is to survive we must no longer permit the assault of lies to continue.
This is not a matter of bias in the media; it is a matter of deception. Bias, however damaging, is nowhere as dangerous and destructive as the sheer deception that is taking place. People can detect bias, but unless they are actively exploring alternative news sources they might never even suspect that they are being deceived or lied to by omission. The corporate media have abused the trust that had been earned by journalists past. They know the public trusts them to tell the truth. They know that a public that trusts them will not spend time fact checking.
But over the past 6 or 7 years a drastic change has taken place. The lies of the media have become so egregious that they can no longer be ignored or allowed to continue.
US media has intentionally created a false impression in the minds of the populace as they cover for the deplorable acts, numerous lies and the unforgivable crimes committed by the Bush administration.
Today alone, two major examples of this deception were shot at us from the screens of our television sets like a high pressure fire hose spewing its lies and deceptions.
1. Images and descriptions of Britain's George Galloway shaking hands with Saddam Hussein have played like strobe lights on our TV screens. The networks might just as well have set up the crawl text at the bottom of the screen to rotate nothing but the sentence "Galloway Shakes Hands with Saddam!" Missing from this picture and from the past 3 years of news coverage are the discussions and images of Donald Rumsfeld doing the very same thing. Missing are the discussions of Donald Rumsfeld role along with Ronald Reagan & George Bush Sr. in arming Saddam Hussein to the teeth and arranging for Iraq's acquisition of the very WMDs that were sited as the reason Rumsfeld's war machine had to kill 100,000 Iraqis!
2. Senator Carl Levin made the media rounds discussing the money trail leading from the Food for Oil program to Galloway. He detailed a path where a person who received this money was a contributor to Galloway. There was no mention of today's report citing the fact that our sitting vice president was directly involved in helping Saddam exploit the Food for Oil money while he was CEO of Halliburton. It is also known that Cheney did business with Libya and Iran, ignoring sanctions and breaking the law. Levin also pointed out the fact that Galloway wanted to end the sanctions Iraq. What was not said is that Galloway, as did with much of the world, opposed sanctions because they led to the suffering and mass death of the Iraqi people/children, while Cheney was an outspoken critic of the sanctions during the 90s out of sheer greed.
One day, one issue, two outrageously misleading media blitzes. This is why so many good people support this criminal administration. They are good people with bad information! The reason for this is that our primary source of information is a criminally deceptive organization that is known as corporate media.
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