Robert Parry: LMSM, the 'Lying Mainstream Media'

[Dudley_DUright]

The Washington Post is reasserting its august judgment over what qualifies as news in the face of citizen complaints that it and other mainstream media outlets neglected leaked British memos about the deceptions behind George W. Bush’s war in Iraq.

The Post’s lead editorial on June 15 mixed a patronizing tone with derisive comments in assuring its readers that “the memos add not a single fact to what was previously known about the administration’s prewar deliberations. Not only that: They add nothing to what was publicly known in July 2002.”

Oh, really?

While it may be true that some people were alleging what the secret British memos now confirm, those people were vocal opponents of invading Iraq and were treated by the Post and other pro-war news outlets as fringe characters fit only to be ignored.

For example, many war critics asserted that Bush’s decision to take his case against Iraq to the United Nations was a ploy designed only to justify a predetermined course for invasion. In other words, the critics felt that Bush and his allies were not acting in good faith, but simply wanted some political cover for an illegal war.

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/061605.html

[otohara]

1. LMSM - From Now On

they are getting hammered lately - at least on the Internet and Air America. They will continue to ignore, like their leader Mr. Boosh.

[ixion]

2. we need to hammer away at both them and BushCo

to expose them for the unethical, morally bankrupt, lame excuses for human beings that they are.

I hold the LMSM as responsible as I hold BushCo for the illegal invasion of Iraq. If it were not for them acting as enabler and echo chamber, were it not for them NOT asking the real questions, nor allowing debate, that tragic moment in US history would not have been possible, and we would now NOT be hated and distrusted the world over.