This month, a lot of media stories have compared President Johnson’s war in Vietnam and President Obama’s war in Afghanistan. The comparisons are often valid, but a key parallel rarely gets mentioned — the media’s insistent support for the war even after most of the public has turned against it.
This omission relies on the mythology that the U.S. news media functioned as tough critics of the Vietnam War in real time, a fairy tale so widespread that it routinely masquerades as truth. In fact, overall, the default position of the corporate media is to bond with war policymakers in Washington — insisting for the longest time that the war must go on.
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August 28, 2009 at 3:16 pm |
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March 22, 2010 at 12:03 pm |
Do you and do the American people realize that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and became a citizen of Indonesia? Does truth matter? Presiding over the largest budget deficit in the history of our nation. Are we to face more government lies and cover-ups under the Obama administration?
I would answer my own question and say, “Yes!”
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