Canadian journalist SLAMS AMERICAN NEWS MEDIA!!!!

[Hoping4Change]

FYI the Globe & Mail is the equivalent to the Washington Post in that it is the Establishment newspaper but IMHO a whole heap better.


LAWRENCE MARTIN
Thursday, July 29, 2004 - Page A15




"In his speech at the Democratic convention, Jimmy Carter noted how the Bush administration had willfully generated public panic over terrorism. Statistics show that, last year, acts of terrorism killed 300 to 400 people, ranking it so far down the list of dangers to livelihood that it is barely visible.





The threat of terrorism certainly shouldn't be minimized; but it also shouldn't be exaggerated by a cowed media to fit the White House agenda. For anyone who looks at some of history's worst threats -- the German military machine that killed tens of millions, the Soviet Union with a nuclear arsenal that could have turned this continent into rubble -- the terrorism of today, though George Bush has seeded so much more of it in Iraq, isn't anywhere close.




As journalists have been duped so often, admittedly duped, how can anyone say the media system in America is working?



In times of foreign crises, the press doesn't report. It is politically exploited. It is supposed to reflect truth and reality but, by treating politically motivated White House words with face-value reverence, it is distorting that truth and reality and succumbing to patriot games.



"At the Democratic convention this week and the coming Republican fest, rest assured of one thing: No one will mention a crux issue -- how patriotism supplanted journalism in America."







http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040729/COMARTIN29/TPComment/TopStories

[dand]

1. A really slam dunk article,

I sent it to my local rag's editor, but I doubt he can understand it, talk about a Repuke mouthpiece. Thanks for posting it.

[PATRICK]

2. Is that patriot or

"parrot" games?

[indigobusiness]

3. good post---check out the latest from CHB

“Too many make the mistake of thinking Dick Cheney is the real power in the Bush administration,” says one senior Homeland Security aide. “They’re wrong. It’s Ashcroft and that is reason enough for all of us to be very, very afraid.”

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4930.shtml

[candy331]

4. Article in the Hill sounds about right , as a social service case worker

I saw much of this behavior(paranoid schizophrenia)in clients. Would I want or believe that one of my clients could step into high office, well some possibly could but it would be damaging and dangerous for them and for others. It has been discussed in many threads here the symptoms displayed for such an illness and Bush exhibits most of them. I don't know why it should surprise people that Bush is suffering from mental illness, a man who was heavily on alcohol and drugs for years would definitely damage brain cells along the way. I suppose the rabid Bush supporters are in a case of delusion just as he is but he is sick, well I suppose they are too really.

[indigobusiness]

5. Many great great minds operated well under the influence

of drugs and alchohol. History is replete with them, and some have credited drugs and alchohol with helping their insights. But your point is well taken.

Whatever the reason, it is the fact that matters---Bush is, apparently, ill. Men who are psychologically ill have no business waging war and bankrupting nations to satisfy their delusions.