[Anyone] the "news"

Sun Feb 11 10:57:31 MST 2007

myers, I thought you had President Bush impeached. You did turn in those 3 
million signatures you gathered didn't you?

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>Published on Friday, February 9, 2007 by the Toronto Star
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>Real News Loses to Fluff Again
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>by Antonia Zerbisias
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>Anybody want to bet against me that, over the next few days, the U.S.
>media will be more consumed with the sudden death of DDD-list blond
>bombshell Anna Nicole Smith than with Tuesday's report by a U.S.
>congressional committee that an estimated $12 billion (U.S.)  360 tons of
>shrink-wrapped C-notes  were flown to Iraq between May 2003 and June 2004?
>
>No, I didn't think so, even though the cash can't be accounted for, even
>though there are suspicions that much of it ended up with the insurgency,
>even though U.S. troops are getting killed for lack of proper armour and
>equipment.
>
>Turn on the news and it's been all about "astro-nut" Lisa Nowak, she who
>should land a Depends endorsement deal, and her wild cross-country pursuit
>of love lost in space. Or something like that. Fill in your own space
>oddity pun. Every news organization has, as Jon Stewart pointed out the
>other night.
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>So here we are, on the eve of the fifth year of the Iraq invasion, and the
>"shock and awe" continues to be that the mainstream media watchdogs rolled
>over for the Bush-Cheney war and have yet to report on where they went
>wrong, what they missed, what they ignored, what they buried.
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>(This, by the way, is not an attack on the journalists who have risked
>and even lost  their lives covering the conflict.)
>
>Oh sure there have been a few mea culpas, I-got-it-wrongs, and slap me
>sillies with my soft-white-pundit's hands along the way from the likes of
>the Toronto Sun's Lorrie Goldstein, the National Post's Jonathan Kay and
>the National Review's Jonah Goldberg, who in 2002 wrote, "The United
>States needs to go to war with Iraq because it needs to go to war with
>someone in the region and Iraq makes the most sense."
>
>But nowhere have the media answered the kinds of questions posed this week
>by a veteran editor in the Nieman Watchdog, published by the Nieman
>Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
>
>Among the questions raised by Gilbert Cranberg, former editorial page
>editor of the Des Moines Register and Tribune: "Why did the New York Times
>and others parrot administration claims about Iraq's acquisition of
>aluminum tubes for nuclear weapons when independent experts were readily
>available to debunk the claims?
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>"Why was a report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
>accusing the administration of misusing intelligence by misrepresenting
>and distorting it given two paragraphs in the Times and 700 words in the
>(Washington) Post (but deep inside), with neither story citing the
>report's reference to distorted and misrepresented intelligence?
>
>"Why did Colin Powell's pivotal presentation to the United Nations receive
>immediate and overwhelming press approval despite its evident weaknesses
>and even fabrications?
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>"Why did the British press, unlike its American counterpart, critically
>dissect the speech and regard it with scorn?
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>"Why did the Associated Press wait six months, when the body count began
>to rise, to distribute a major piece by AP's Charles Hanley challenging
>Powell's evidence and why did Hanley say how frustrating it had been until
>then to break through the self-censorship imposed by his editors on
>negative news about Iraq?"
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>Why indeed?
>
>But why is not a question often answered nowadays. It's all about who. The
>celebrity who. The space cadet who. The who did who.
>
>The danger is that, as the Bush-Cheney administration continues its
>bellicose bellowing, not only about Iraq but also Iran, the media again
>take at face value whatever the White House throws its way, not investing
>the resources to go beyond cheap and easy "live" time-fillers.
>
>Oh, and if you think that what happens on their news doesn't affect
>Canada, think again. It would be a much easier sell for the Harper
>government to march us unto war if the Amnets and their counterparts in
>print once again did not do their jobs.
>
>Meanwhile, don't wait for serious discussion of the missing billions or
>another downed U.S. chopper. For the next few days, your TV will become a
>boob tube. Can't you see it already: "Thanks for the mammaries."
>
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>FEAR: The media world is buzzing about this sound byte New York Times
>chair and publisher Arthur Sulzberger gave Israel's Haaretz; "I really
>don't know whether we'll be printing the Times in five years, and you know
>what? I don't care either.
>
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>"The Internet is a wonderful place to be, and we're leading there."
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>LOATHING: Then there's this from News Corp. mogul Rupert Murdoch, picked
>up by the Hollywood Reporter at last month's World Economic Forum in
>Davos, Switzerland. Asked if his media empire attempted to set the agenda
>on the war in Iraq, he said: "No, I don't think so. We tried." Tried and
>succeeded.
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