Category Archives: The Mainstream Media
Syria: “Rebel” Acts of Brutality Repackaged as Crimes of Assad Government
It was, in the words of U.N. special envoy Kofi Annan, the “tipping point” in the Syria conflict: a savage massacre of over 90 people, predominantly women and children, for which the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad was immediately blamed by virtually the entirety of the Western media. Within days of the first reports of the Houla massacre, the U.S., France, Great Britain, Germany, and several other Western countries announced that they were expelling Syria’s ambassadors in protest.
But according to a new report in Germany’s leading daily, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), the Houla massacre was in fact committed by anti-Assad Sunni militants, and the bulk of the victims were member of the Alawi and Shia minorities Read the rest of this entry
Indian Country Today: Uncle Tomahawks & Cheerleaders of the Rape of Mother Earth
Originally posted over at Censored News as Media Watch: Indian Country Today Hits a New All Time Low. However, not only is Indian County Today an Uncle Tomahawk cheerleader of the rape of mother earth, with no regard for the impact that this violation of our mother has on our people, it has also been a supporter of the continuing FBI campaign against Leonard Peltier and the American Indian Movement, including cheerleading the government set up and lynching of John Graham for the murder of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash – a murder which the government carried out as part of the COINTELPRO terror campaign!
So I would like to echo Censored News editor Brenda Norrell’s call to boycott Indian Country Today!
NEW TOWN, North Dakota — The newspaper Indian Country Today didn’t show up to cover the Protecting Mother Earth Gathering and now has an article cheerleading the rape of the earth and the ongoing devastation by the oil and gas industry.
Perhaps the newspaper would have been less likely to publish a press release, during the newspaper’s downward spiral, if its reporters or editors had been present at the Gathering and listened to the people here, and witnessed the carnage by the oil and gas industry. Read the rest of this entry
Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land: Media & the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This pivotal documentary exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites–oil, and a need to have a secure military base in the region, among others–work in combination with Israeli public relations strategies to exercise a powerful influence over how news from the region is reported.
