Who is the better propoganda cheif? Personally think Bush kicks Goebbel’s ass.
and Clear Channel is putting One Radio for Germany to shame..
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and Clear Channel is putting One Radio for Germany to shame..
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What is Clear Channel? I just saw a billboard for it.
Re: Goebbels or Bush
That’s an insult to Goebbels. Bush’s speechwriting team maybe.. but not Bush.
Clear Channel is one of the largest radio companies in America:
“The US media is out to justify the war through selective reporting and peddling half-truths, thus fanning nationalist sentiments, says ESHA BHATTACHARJEE”
Goebbels W Bush](http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=4&theme=&usrsess=1&id=10104) The Statesman, India 02 Apr 03
IT’S becoming impossible to watch television anymore, wrote Edward Said in the Chronicle (an academic journal) a few days before the USA attacked Iraq. He said that as a conscientious US citizen one felt compelled to watch the run-of-the-mill television news just to keep one’s finger on the pulse of the nation, but the pro-war jargon was getting too much.
With almost two weeks into the war, one would be hard pressed to find anything besides stirring patriotic reporting on US television. Except that more often than not, the passion falls flat, and one is left with simply bad reporting. In a recent interview of an Iraqi ambassador aired on NBC, the anchorwoman was rude to the point of embarrassment and one wondered why she bothered to interview at all and did not just deliver a harangue. One is, in fact, tempted to see the entire war as such a gaffe, committed on a large scale, and the temptation to switch off the TV is immense.
The same evening that the interview was being aired, there was also an interview of the family members of a US soldier who had just been taken Prisoner of War by Iraqis. Showing the family (and viewers) a photograph of the soldier in captivity, the reporter asked his family how, in their opinion, he looked. The sister of the prisoner replied, “pretty good.” The answer was so inappropriate that it took the reporter a minute to re-phrase the question so as to elicit a suitable response to the tune of “tired, yet brave.”
In that inappropriate response, however, one could get a glimpse of the lost lives and war experiences that refuse to be orchestrated, and which will perhaps be reveale only when the soldiers return. The country will be answerable for their experiences then, but perhaps like Vietnam, there will not be much of an answer to give.
**The US electronic media is largely dominated by CNN and the Rupert Murdoch-run arch conservative Fox Network. These networks have been engaging in selective reporting and unabashedly biased commentary and often peddling outright lies. President Bush, in a recent address to the nation, spoke of Iraq’s deadly chemical and biological weapons and missile attacks, despite the fact that Iraq no longer has the arsenal to hit a target 200 miles away, let alone across the Atlantic. ** Full Article](http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=4&theme=&usrsess=1&id=10104)