|
|
Conditioned for War with Russia
McGovern, Ray
http://consortiumnews.com/2022/09/22/conditioned-for-war-with-russia/Date Written: 2022-09-22 Publisher: Consortium News Year Published: 2022 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX24784 Discusses the American role in the war between Russia and Ukraine, and the Establishment media's part in keeping the truth from Americans. Abstract: - Excerpt: The U.S. insists that Russia’s invasion was “unprovoked.” Establishment media dutifully regurgitate that line, while keeping Americans in the dark about such facts (not opinion) as are outlined (and sourced) above. Most Americans are just as taken in by the media as they were 20 years ago, when they were told there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. They simply took it on faith. Nor did the guilty media express remorse — or a modicum of embarrassment. The late Fred Hiatt, who was op-ed editor at The Washington Post, is a case in point. In an interview with The Columbia Journalism Review [CJR, March/April 2004] he commented: “If you look at the editorials we wrote running up [to the war], we state as flat fact that he [Saddam Hussein] has weapons of mass destruction. … If that’s not true, it would have been better not to say it.” (My journalism mentor, Robert Parry, had this to say about Hiatt’s remark. “Yes, that is a common principle of journalism, that if something isn’t real, we’re not supposed to confidently declare that it is.”) Subject Headings |