America's Corporate-Owned Press is to Blame for America's Pathetic Global Reputation

[babylonsister]

http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/more.php?page=opinion&id=1625

America's Corporate-Owned Press is to Blame for America's Pathetic Global Reputation
A. Alexander, July 28th, 2007

The United States is increasingly viewed by the world as being dangerous. And, the world is absolutely right to perceive America's government in such a light. Sure, Mister Bush and the radicalized Republican Party have a lot to do with how the world perceives the United States, but America's corporate-owned press must shoulder most of the blame.

The current administration assumes itself to be too smart for either the American people, or the world's inhabitants to figure out. Their behavior is to be expected. After all, the mentally unstable and emotionally deranged tend to be susceptible to bouts of extreme grandiosity. What is most interesting, however, is the fact that America's corporate-owned media has completely deluded itself into believing that no one, either foreign or domestic, has caught onto its sorry mode of operation.

America's corporate-owned media receives a press release from the White House and they run it without question. The current administration could put out a press release stating: "All members of the press are hereby declared members of al Qaeda and will be summarily executed," and the media would distribute it without thinking or blinking.

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People around the world see the misleading and fabricated news reports and they rightly assume the United States to be a danger to their security. Unlike in America, most of the world's people are given enough accurate information to know when half-baked maniacs like Mister Bush and Cheney are engaging in policies that threaten global stability. Too, people around the globe find it to be quite galling that they have to watch, read and listen to America's corporate-owned media as it lies to the American people. Because the world knows, if the American people are given the truth, they respond in a manner that ultimately means less suffering for the global community.

However, when the world is forced to endure madmen like Bush and Cheney and they know America's corporate-owned press is shilling for the administration's dangerous policies, then the world's people become enraged. And, rightfully so! After all, they know better than anyone, that when America's corporate-owned press teams up with lunatics in the United States government, it is the global population that pays the biggest price.

The world is right to view the United States as being dangerous and the corporate-owned press is to blame for that unfortunate reality.

[sazemisery]

1. K&R n/t

[dipsydoodle]

2. That's a pretty fair assessment

Anything we get here from our own UK media sources that isn't repeated more or verbatim, without slant or spin, on yours causes up to smell a rat. One of the strengths of DU is that we can feed each other.

[Joanne98]

3. Amen to that! K&R!

[Briar]

4. I rather think

the policies themselves have something to do with it. And as far as I can see the leading Democrat candidates are just as eager to pursue "America First" policies of global domination as the Republicans, presumably because polling and focus groups tell them that's the way to get the votes of "the centre". Since the ratings conscious media are themselves courting the centre, the guilt is probably more widespread.

[Demeter]

6. If the Policies Were Good, It Wouldn't Matter WHAT the MSM Did

and if they are BAD, the MSM can only delay, not eliminate, the backlash.

[Festivito]

5. YES! Corporate-owned and ELITE-RUN for Mil-ind-complex.

1. Budget our own elections .. get decent elected government.
2. Decent government .. enforce and get decent news.
3. .. health care, better domestic policies, better world policies, less war, ...

1. Allow any company, any country, any group, any individual to BRIBE our officials with LEGAL money .. LOSE SELF-GOVERNMENT.

[superkia]

7. You couldn't pay me enough to work for American media!

Wouldn't you be afraid that when the Mcviegh types lose it, they will go after what gets the message out most. Not a government establishment that would be very guarded and protected but a media one so that their message is heard and to put out fear through the media so Americans could have a chance at hearing some of the truth? No way in hell I would want to be in any of those types of positions!