Seymour Hersh says, "Media outlets spread 'fake' news"

[JohnyCanuck]

Hersh: Don't trust Washington on Iraq

Prominent journalist Seymour Hersh says the US is 'in real trouble' because news coverage on Iraq is anything but balanced and unbiased.

When the American government says the US is winning in Iraq and is not torturing prisoners, they are just words, Hersh told his audience of journalism students in Regina, Canada. "We are in real trouble ."

Pointing to the changes reporting has undergone since the Vietnam War, the award-winning journalist explained that reporters are now imbedded with troops who cloud their judgment and therefore do not touch the same kind of issue

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Hersh said media outlets spread 'fake' news and suggested his audience resort to translations of local media sources when learning about issues concerning the Middle East.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=49193§ionid=3510203

[seemslikeadream]

1. 'in real trouble'

[L. Coyote]

3. Taxpayer $millions$ buying LIES = Pentagon aimed to control Iraqi media during war

Taxpayer $millions$ buying LIES = Pentagon aimed to control Iraqi media during war
FROM: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x980430

BUSH's LIES have a price---and not just in hundreds of thousands of lives after the LIES.
First, the taxpayers have to pay--up front--for the creation and propagation of the LIES.

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Jan 14th, 2004
U.S. Journalist Quits Pentagon Iraqi Media Project Calling it U.S. Propaganda
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/14/155

Listen LINK

We talk to a longtime TV producer about the massive problems he saw in the new U.S.-funded Iraqi Media Network, which he said became an "irrelevant mouthpiece for Coalition Provisional Authority propaganda, managed news and mediocre programs." The U.S. has awarded a $96 million contract to a U.S. producer of communications equipment, Harris Corp., to create a U.S.-funded national media network in Iraq.

According to the head of Harris Corp, the Iraqi Media Network will have 30 TV and radio transmitters, three broadcast studios, and 12 bureaus around Iraq.

After U.S.-led troops ousted Saddam Hussein's regime in April, the state-run broadcasters were seized. Since then, they have been run by a U.S. defense contractor, Science Applications International Corporation. .........

TRANSCRIPT w/ Amy Goodman ........ longtime TV producer, Don North, about the problems he saw ...

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Pentagon aimed to control Iraqi media during war
By Jim Lobe - Updated May 25, 2007, 05:25 pm
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_3523.sh...

National Security Archive reveals Pentagon aimed to control Iraqi media during war

* Pentagon OK's Propaganda for Iraq (LA Times, 03-04-2006)- http://www.prwatch.org/node/4517
* Pentagon pays Iraqi papers to print its 'good news' stories ...

.... more ..... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x980430

[EFerrari]

2. I lately saw a panel of reporters including John Burns from the NYts

and he was STILL defending that paper's coverage in the run up to the war. He sounded DELUSIONAL and according ot his fairytale, no one could have imagined that the convicted felon Chalabi was full of it.

Sy is right, of course.

TG for places like DU where we can access an aggregate and run the spin down.

[AZCat]

10. The same NYT that was home...

to a certain "Judith Miller"? Yeah, that was dependable, unbiased coverage of the pre-war period. :eyes:

[Peace Patriot]

4. The same is true for South America--absolute bullshit, made up bullshit, lies

and disinformation, from the entire corporate press. I know what they did on Iraq, and on Bush/Cheney crime--spying, torture, grand theft, and two stolen elections--and still I'm shocked. Case in point: Hugo Chavez, the "dictator." It is not true. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. Yet I'd guess that 70% of the American people (north Americans) have unconsciously absorbed that Big Lie. South Americans know better. That's why he's so popular there, among his own people--70% approval rating--and in neighboring countries, including close friendships and alliances with the presidents of Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua, and good relations with others, with only two exceptions--the fascist thugs in Colombia and the corrupt "free traders" in Peru. Lulu da Silva of Brazil said, "You can criticize Chavez on a lot of things--but not on democracy." Nestor Kirchner (Argentina), when the Bushites issued the demand that South American leaders "isolate" Chavez, replied, "But he's my brother!" The relentless propaganda of the Bush junta and the corporate 'news' monopolies about Chavez is 'Alice in Wonderlandish'--up is down, war is peace, democracy is "dictatorship." It's truly crazy. And it, too, has to do with oil, greed and nefarious Bushite plans to destroy other countries and grab control their resources. They have a war plan for South America that I think is going to be sprung on us mid-year, before Bush leaves office. I think it will fail, but be prepared. The propaganda has become very intense. It may start with disrupting and splitting up Bolivia, but its main targets are Venezuela and Ecuador, rich in oil, both of them members of OPEC, with strong, leftist, social justice governments.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

5. Corpro-fascists colluding to reduce the population to serfs.

And the news "reporters" working against their own self interests. Man, this has been a long 8 years...

And yes, I know, it pre-dates the current regime.

[Orwellian_Ghost]

6. K&R n/t

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

7. Seymour Hersh says, "Media outlets spread 'fake' news" Duh... does a bear..well you know...

[JohnyCanuck]

9. And last I heard the Pope was still Catholic. n/t

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

13. lol! I knew you'd get it. ;) I guess there are still pleanty of people who still haven't woken

up to the fact that network news is more fake than John Stewart's fake news, and that's Sy Hersh's task here. Why has it taken him so long to spread this real news???

[annabanana]

8. The media monopolies MUST be broken up....

They will be handmaidens of the death of the world....

[The Jerk Store]

11. Media is the biggest news story of this century, unfortunately.....

they can't be trusted to cover themselves. Face it, you're not going to see a newspaper reporter or TV "journalist" criticize the media they work for, and they're all doing an abysmal job! I doubt one in ten major news stories would break if it weren't for the internet. It really is the only thing holding this country together, and the repigs want to sell that out to the corporations. How many mainstream news shows have you seen cover Net Neutrality. It's rare and when they do the story is usually an explanation of what net neutrality means, and "back to you, bob." AND THE SCARY THING IS there are so many people that accept so much without ever questioning--and that's just dangerous. I mean, look at our pResident--he has the curiosity of a paramecium--AND HE'S RUNNING THE COUNTRY! :argh:

[Subdivisions]

12. It's not just Iraq, they spread 'fake' news about EVERYTHING! n/t

[malaise]

14. Duh!

The more M$M lie, the more they show ads about their credibility.

[Echo In Light]

15. Brainwashing is their business, and business is good