US Corporate Media Shown to be Rank Propaganda Arms

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http://www.nationofchange.org/us-corporate-media-shown-be-rank-propaganda-arms-1373297665


It’s little wonder that despite his disclosure of an unprecedented KBG-like or Stasi-like spying program targeting all Americans, fully half of all Americans polled are saying that National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden is a “spy” or “traitor” who should be brought to justice.

Why would this be, when a solid majority also say they oppose the spying program?

A major reason would be that the politicians and other Washington leaders like Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey are lying, claiming that Snowden has damaged US national security. Another would be that the corporate media are pushing the line that Snowden is not a civil-liberties motivated whistle-blowing patriot, but rather a traitor or a spy.

Take the Philadelphia Inquirer. A couple of days ago, this once-respected paper in one of America’s major cities ran a piece about Snowden, calling him a “spy” in the headline, though there was no mention of the word spy in the article itself. Without any sense of irony, the paper ran another article that day on the same page about the anger in Europe over the NSA’s spying on Europeans and their governments -- supposedly America’s allies -- and while that article was about spying by the US government, the headline eschewed using the word “spy.”

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1. It stands to reason that after intensive coverage of the Vietnam War created public pressure

to end it, that the TPTB would develop a way to systematically control the press, so in the future they could have their way without a pesky informed public.

They have done an excellent job.