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Dave Lindorff
Are the American corporate media largely propaganda organs, or news organizations?
Here are a few points to consider, and then you the reader can decide. Check out how one should objectively answer these questions below, and then check how the US corporate media generally answer them:
1. If ISIS or Al Qaeda deliberately attacks a civilian venue as in Paris, killing dozens of civilians indescriminately, is it terrorism?
Objective answer: Yes
US media answer: Yes
2. If the US deliberately attacks a a civilian venue as in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing dozens of civilians indescriminately, is it terrorism?
Objective answer: Yes
US media answer: No
3. If the Chinese government takes control of a tiny island claimed by another nation, expands it, and puts a military installation on it, is it an example of aggression, a violation of international law, and a provocation?
Objective answer: Yes
US media answer: Yes
4. If the US government takes control and then refuses to relinquish a portion of a tiny
island like Cuba, expands it and puts a military installation on it (as it has done for
decades in the case of Guantanamo Bay on the island of Cuba, is it an example of
aggression, a violaton of international law, and a provocation?
Objective answer: Yes
US media answer: No
5. If the leader of a party that wins a national election by a landslide is not herself elected, but announces that she will in fact be making all the important decisions for the newly elected government, as Suu Ky just did in Myanmar, is it an example of undemocratic behavior, or caudillismo?
Objective answer: Yes
US Media answer: No
6. If the leader of a party steps down as president but then insists on acting as the real authority on important issues even though someone else (his brother) is elected president, as Fidel Castro has done in Cuba, is this an example of undemocratic behavior, or caudillismo?
Objective answer: Yes
US media answer: Yes
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