Friday, June 27, 2008

Scott Ritter speaks out

This time, he is speaking about the US media. Our so-called “TV news” is one god-awful mess, as anyone who can still think, already knows. But, apparently, our news media is not capable of critical thought. So, even after Scott McClellan’s book, they are still denying, denying, denying, that they have any responsibility in bringing our nation into a war of aggression.

They will never be seen as journalists in my eyes as long as they deny the obvious.

Here is a clip from Scott Ritter’s article called “Why Are Corporate Journalists So Afraid of Questioning Authority?”

The media were not interested in reporting the facts, but rather furthering a fiction. Time after time, I backed my opposition to the Bush administration's "case" for war on Iraq with hard facts, citing evidence that could be readily checked by these erstwhile journalists had they been so inclined. Instead, my integrity and character were impugned by these simple recorders of "fact", further enabling the fiction pushed by the administration into the mainstream, unchallenged and unquestioned, to be digested by the American public as truth.

One of those people who impugned Ritter’s character was Aaron Brown. He brought Ritter on his “news” show to discuss whether Iraq had WMDs, but instead he questioned Ritter about an old arrest record that was dismissed and sealed. Not one question or lick of research on WHY those records were UNsealed: it sure wasn’t Ritter who broke that Judge’s orders. Instead, it was all innuendo and nonsense on the Aaron Brown show that night. And the information that Ritter had about WMDs was kept from the American fools who watch CNN for “news”. This was exactly what the corporate powers wanted – they did not give a rat’s ass who got hurt or killed (much like Brown himself), all they cared about was making money. And war makes a lot of money for those folks who own the cable channels on the idiot box.

Brown also did a horrible job covering the Powell speech at the UN. It seems he is not capable of critical thinking, or maybe of thinking at all.

My advice: throw away that TV and read on the internet….. you will be much, much better informed.

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