re Re: NP America: Evil Empire?

[Paul Mackin]

Doug Millison wrote:

> Sorry, "corporate media" was an ill-chosen phrase, obviously not all
> articles in every corporate media organ endorse US foreign policy, although
> most of them in fact do. You have to go outside of the US to find major
> newspapers, like the Guardian in the UK, that consistently take a
> left-of-center point of view.

So it's not capitalism that's the culprit but nationalism. OK,  that's an
improvement

About the sin of not taking a consistent left of center view I guess American
newpapers would prefer that their readers not find them funny.

See  http://www.mediachannel.org/ for an

> overview and details.
>
> What I meant to say is that the neo-con/neo-liberal press and commentators
> generally, and the war cheerleaders in particular,  have had nothing good
> to say about Ali, Pilger, and other critics of Bush's imperial policy
> generally and the war in Afghanistan in particular.

Would Doug want the New York Times and the Washington Post to model their
editorial pages after his own  unbiased prose style?

> HaperCollins, publisher of Kremmer's book, is a Rupert Murdoch operation,
> isn't it-- and there's a publisher well-known for wide-ranging political
> viewpoints, I'm sure.
>

Is Doug suggesting  this publisher only publishes right wing books? No, I
thought not.What I meant to say was . . . .

Oh, who cares what this dimwit says or meant to say.

P.