A televisual fairyland

[illbill]

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The US media is disciplined by corporate America into promoting the Republican cause

George Monbiot
Tuesday January 18, 2005

<snip>On Thursday, the fairy king of fairyland will be recrowned. He was elected on a platform suspended in midair by the power of imagination. He is the leader of a band of men who walk through ghostly realms unvisited by reality. And he remains the most powerful person on earth.
How did this happen? How did a fantasy president from a world of make believe come to govern a country whose power was built on hard-headed materialism? To find out, take a look at two squalid little stories which have been concluded over the past 10 days.

The first involves the broadcaster CBS. In September, its 60 Minutes programme ran an investigation into how George Bush avoided the Vietnam draft. It produced memos which appeared to show that his squadron commander in the Texas National Guard had been persuaded to "sugarcoat" his service record. The programme's allegations were immediately and convincingly refuted: Republicans were able to point to evidence suggesting the memos had been faked. Last week, following an inquiry into the programme, the producer was sacked, and three CBS executives were forced to resign. <snip>

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[moobu2]

1. Damn good article on media corprate-news-republican whores

Hope everyone who is the slightest interested in the current state of national news media read this...Thanks for posting it illbill.

[illbill]

2. :)

Thanks for the appreciation.