Great Article on Media! Bush Team Ignores History/ Morley Safer

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http://www.ctnow.com/news/local/hr/hc-writers0418.artapr18,0,5413250.story
Bush Team Ignores History, Safer Says
April 18, 2004
By ROSELYN TANTRAPHOL, Courant Staff Writer

EAST HARTFORD -- The increasing level of violence gripping Iraq does not signal a repetition of the Vietnam War, but has been the result of an administration that turns a blind eye to historical lessons, "60 Minutes" correspondent Morley Safer said Saturday.

And the unfolding events have been reported by "a captive media" that failed to aggressively probe reasons for the march to war - and one that subsequently came to depend on the government through the embedded journalist program, he said.

In warning against becoming beholden to the government, he said: "We don't want anything from the government but that furtive little fellow called the truth - which, by the way, they'll never give you, which you have to go out and find by talking to people."

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Before the era of video phones and satellite technology, camera crews used film, and the reports had to be shipped out for broadcast. "You had time to catch your breath and time to write," he said. But today with cameras on the ground sending back video by the minute, Safer said, war coverage has fallen to a glut of images without context."You couldn't blame the reporter," he said. "All they could say was, `Gee, there was a whiz and a boom." But worse, he said, "before you know it, you've started to ignore it."

http://www.ctnow.com/news/local/hr/hc-writers0418.artapr18,0,5413250.story

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1. So who do we blame, Morley?

How about the gutless, well-fed media whores who enable this deception?