Wow, has Dan Rather gone completely off the deep end?
He rushes to get stuff on the air that seems to suggest Dubya shirked his duties in the Guard, then everyone who looks at the documents says they're not only forgeries, but bad ones. He won't give up, digging up so-called "experts" to back him up, then those same "experts" start complaining that he misled them to get what he wanted them to say.
I'm reading Bernie Goldberg's book about Dan and media bias, and it's chilling. Sure, Bernie's got a bit of an axe to grind, but who wouldn't under the circumstances? He simply wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal that pointed out a particularly egregious example of biased reporting at CBS, and pretty much lost his job and was black-balled for it. Amazing.
So, I'm thinking that we have to question everything, no matter what so-called "news" organizations are feeding us. Is anybody out there really fair and balanced? I don't get Fox News at home, but it's been amazing in the times I've been able to see it how much it contrasts with the other network news shows.
Once I saw a story about the Iraq war on CBS, then watched coverage of the same events on Fox. It was the same event, but the presentation of the story was completely different between the two reports. CBS basically seemed to be trying to suggest that US Soldiers caused the problem (I think it was another bombing in Fallujah) by their careless killing of innocent civilians. The take away from Fox was that a relatively small group of terrorists was making life miserable for Iraqi citizens, who actually support the efforts of American troops to root out the terrorist elements.
So, CBS wants us to see "Iraqi Insurgents" or "Iraqi Resistance" against evil American invaders, while Fox is showing us terrorists who are doing everything in their power to obstruct the creation of a free Iraq.
We can't go to Iraq ourselves to find out the truth, so we have to rely on journalists to tell us what's happening there. Unfortunately, CBS and their friends at NBC and ABC have muddied the waters so much that we can no longer trust anything they tell us. That's an extremely serious problem that will bring down our society if something is not done about it immediately. Their propaganda can lead only to an uninformed populace, which leads to tyranny and totalitarianism.
I'm very concerned, and hope others are as well.
3 comments:
WE LIVE IN A TIME WHERE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS DOES NOT EXSIST. wE WERE LIED TO, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, THAT IS, TO GET INVOLVED IN A WAR THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH TERRORISM. IRAQ IS THE 5TH LEADING SUPPLIER OF OIL IN THE WORLD, AND IRAQ HAS THE LARGEST UNTAPPED OIL FIELDS IN THE WORLD. WE HAVE GOTTEN TO A POINT WHERE WE EXPECT VERY LITTLE FROM OUR COUNTRIES LEADERS. UNTIL WE HIGHER OUR EXPECTATIONS, AND FORCE OUR LEADERS TO ACT WITH THE HIGHEST REGUARD FOR THE COMMON CITIZEN, AND LEAD BY EXAMPLE, DEMOCRACY WILL FLOUNDER, AND OUR LEADERS WILL CONTINUE TO PROFIT WHILE WE GO BROKE.
Cool, I got a comment from Michael Moore himself. How fascinating it is that there seem to be lots of folks out there who believe this conspiracy stuff. Let me guess - I'll bet you also believe the CIA assassinated JFK, Reagan cut a deal on the Iran hostages that helped get him elected, then created 5 million homeless, and 9-11 was a Bush Administration plot with the Saudi royal family designed to help them keep power.
Good example of what happens when the news media loses all their credibility - everybody can make up their own conspiracy theories!
The first poster is correct in saying that Iraq is the world's fifth largest oil producer. Iraq now exports a significant amount of refined oil. However, some major points are missing from that statement. Before the war, Iraq was around 30th on the list, because they closed down most of their refineries. The war is the reason that Iraq is 5th, not the other way around. Also, Iraq isn't remotely close to the top of the untapped oil list. Iraq is a relatively oil-poor country. Their export numbers come from refinement of their neighbors oil, not from their own. While all of your facts are correct, you're using the same tactics as everyone's favorite mockumentarian. Please think before you speak.
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