Published on Saturday, April 5, 2008 by Salon.com
The US Establishment Media in a Nutshell
by Glenn Greenwald
In the past two weeks, the following events transpired. A Department of Justice memo, authored by John Yoo, was released which authorized torture and presidential lawbreaking. It was revealed that the Bush administration declared the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights to be inapplicable to “domestic military operations” within the U.S. The U.S. Attorney General appears to have fabricated a key event leading to the 9/11 attacks and made patently false statements about surveillance laws and related lawsuits. Barack Obama went bowling in Pennsylvania and had a low score.
Here are the number of times, according to NEXIS, that various topics have been mentioned in the media over the past thirty days:
“Yoo and torture” - 102
“Mukasey and 9/11″ — 73
“Yoo and Fourth Amendment” — 16
“Obama and bowling” — 1,043
“Obama and Wright” — More than 3,000 (too many to be counted)
“Obama and patriotism” - 1,607
“Clinton and Lewinsky” — 1,079
And as Eric Boehlert documents, even Iraq — that little five-year U.S. occupation with no end in sight — has been virtually written out of the media narrative in favor of mindless, stupid, vapid chatter of the type referenced above. “The Clintons are Rich!!!!” will undoubtedly soon be at the top of this heap within a matter of a day or two.
The rest of the article is here:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/
US public losing interest in Iraq as news coverage wanes: report
Mar 18, 2008
"The drop in awareness comes as press attention to the war has waned"
A sharp fall in US media coverage of the Iraq war has left Americans less interested in and knowledgeable about the conflict, a report by the independent Pew Research Center showed Wednesday.
A scant three percent of news stories in February were devoted to the Iraq war, compared with around 15 percent in July last year, and the US public has not perceived the war, which began nearly five years ago, as a top news story since October, the report noted.
Meanwhile, 28 percent of 1,003 adults polled last month for Pew correctly estimated the number of US military fatalities in Iraq at around 4,000, compared with 54 percent who got the figure right seven months ago, the report said.
More than one-third -- 35 percent -- estimated that 3,000 had been killed, 11 percent put the toll at 2,000 deaths, and just under a quarter said the number of fatalities was closer to 5,000.
The Department of Defense confirmed the deaths of 3,974 US military personnel in Iraq as of Monday, according to Pew.
"As news coverage of the war has diminished, so too has public interest in news about Iraq," the report said.
And with the waning interest in news about Iraq, there has been a "significant increase in the number of Americans who believe that military progress is being made in Iraq," it said, citing another poll.
That poll, which surveyed 1,508 adults between February 20-24, showed that nearly half of Americans -- 48 percent -- felt the US military effort in Iraq was going well, compared with 30 percent who thought so in February 2007, when the war was consistently one of the top news stories in the United States.
"Iraq was the public's most closely followed news story in all but five weeks during the first half of 2007," but lost power after July and fell out of the top stories in mid-October, the report said.
Article here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080312/ts_alt_afp/usiraqmedia
Originally posted by FMFWas this duck pin or ten pin bowling.....?
Published on Saturday, April 5, 2008 by Salon.com
[b]The US Establishment Media in a Nutshell
by Glenn Greenwald
In the past two weeks, the following events transpired. A Department of Justice memo, authored by John Yoo, was released which authorized torture and presidential lawbreaking. It was revealed that the Bush administration declared the F ...[text shortened]... er of a day or two.
The rest of the article is here:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/[/b]
Salon.com ... they have no axe to grind...now do they? Against bowling i mean.
Originally posted by FMFGotta hate the liberal media, huh? 😉
Published on Saturday, April 5, 2008 by Salon.com
[b]The US Establishment Media in a Nutshell
by Glenn Greenwald
In the past two weeks, the following events transpired. A Department of Justice memo, authored by John Yoo, was released which authorized torture and presidential lawbreaking. It was revealed that the Bush administration declared the F ...[text shortened]... er of a day or two.
The rest of the article is here:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/[/b]
Originally posted by FMFPeople still talk about Clinton/Lewinsky? That's amazing.
Published on Saturday, April 5, 2008 by Salon.com
[b]The US Establishment Media in a Nutshell
by Glenn Greenwald
In the past two weeks, the following events transpired. A Department of Justice memo, authored by John Yoo, was released which authorized torture and presidential lawbreaking. It was revealed that the Bush administration declared the F ...[text shortened]... er of a day or two.
The rest of the article is here:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/[/b]