SALON Glenn Greenwald: Brit Hume and the Bush administration take propaganda to a new level = VIDEO

[L. Coyote]

Glenn Greenwald
Tuesday September 11, 2007 07:10 EST
Brit Hume and the Bush administration take propaganda to a new level
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/09/11/petraeus_interview/index.html


Just as George Bush and Dick Cheney have done on politically important occasions, Gen. David Petraeus (along with Ambassador Ryan Crocker) last night selected Fox News' Brit Hume as the "journalist" rewarded with an exclusive "interview." Whereas Hume, in the past, at least has pretended to play the role of journalist when interviewing high Bush officials -- doing things like asking (extremely respectful) questions about sensitive areas (with no follow up) -- he dispensed entirely with the pretense here. This "interview" took government propaganda to a whole new level, and really has to be seen to be believed (the full VIDEO is here).

The whole production was such transparent propaganda that one doubts that Pravda would have been shameless enough to present it. Even the title of the program was creepy. Fox did not even bother to call it an "interview," but rather hailed it as a "Briefing for America."

The model for the entire hour was not a journalist asking questions of government leaders, but instead, a direct examination at a trial, where a friendly lawyer gently leads his own witness to present claims in the most persuasive manner possible, ..........

[Benhurst]

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