They filter and mould news report "in all sorts of ways: by selection of topics, by distribution of concerns, by emphasis and framing of issues, by filtering of information, by bounding of debate within certain limits. They determine, they select, they shape, they control, they restrict -- in put to serve the interests of dominant, elite groups in the society" (ibid.).
"Czechs Confirm Iraki Agent Met With Terror Ringleader" trumpets a headline in the New York Times on October 27, 2001 with a by-line by Patrick Tyler (New York Times 10/27/01). The story asserts that 9/11 hijacking leader Mohammed Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague in April of 2001 -- thus neatly providing the Saddam Hussein-Al Qaeda link so desperately sought by Bush judicial system hawks as the smoking gun to clinch their argument for pre-emptive struggle.
As the Times so usefully put it for the neocons beating the drums of war: "aafter weeks of speculation and conflicting reports roughly Iraqi contacts with a cadre leader who plotted the attacks, today's confirmation raised fresh questions about(predicate) whether Iraq's foreign intelligence arm in recent long time established ties with Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden's organization" (ibid.).
Except this ne'er happened. A year later the T
Those Americans who used the Internet, alternative media, and foreign periodicals to fact-check the Bush Administration knew about many of these lies long before the New York Times buried a mealy-mouthed me culpa on page A10 acknowledging some transgressions concerning their reporting on weapons of mass destruction - while utterly failing to admit anything resembling Chomsky's analysis (New York Times Letters 5/30/04).
Fisk, Robert. The Twisted Language Of War That Is Used To Justify The indefensible The Independent. April 07, 2003
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