media and power

[Eric Rosenbloom]

Terrance wrote:
> 
> Doug Millison wrote:
> >
> > Right-wing politicians and big business persecuted by the mainstream
> > U.S. media? Hardly.  The New York Times doesn't tilt quite so far to
> > the right, quite so obviously -- but you'd be hard-pressed to find
> > many significant distinctions vis-a-vis Fox in their cheerleading for
> > Bush and his corporate sponsors.
> 
> Remember, The New York Times knew that Ike was lying to the
> public about the U-2s. For a year solid they printed his lies
> and denials w/o comment.
> 
> When they were confronted with this they said, "In this time
> of half-war and half-peace that old principle of
> publish-and-be-damned, while very romantic, bold and hairy,
> can often damage the national interest."
> 
> ...
> 
> The Times also knew about the Cuban Missiles and the Bay of
> Pigs and did not report what they knew, but reported the lies
> of the government w/o comment. Are the truth and the
> national interest at war because the cold war, the warm war,
> the hot war, the war on drugs, the war on bums, the war on
> immigration, the war on Iraq, the war on Columbia, the war
> on the press, the war on the hald-wars everywhere is a state
> of half-war and half-peace forevermore?

"How miserable was I then, and what have you not done to make me feel my
misery upon that day when, having prepared a panegyric in praise of the
emperor, I was to tell many lies and yet be applauded by those who knew
them to be lies?"
--Augustine, Confessions

We will see this tonight as Bush addresses Congress and tomorrow as the
papers report it: lies knowingly applauded as lies.

--
Eric R



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