"We don't want to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq because we're going to own it in a few days"

[Jcrowley]

- Tom Brokaw

Meet Tom Brokaw a prime perpetrator of the corporate news goo that purposefully disinforms:

Bush could not have done it alone with a little megaphone on the steps of the White House. People would not have believed what he was saying. He needed the entire media apparatus to echo what he said and that's exactly what they did. I mean you take one example, in addition to the weapons of mass destruction, just the Pentagon's name for the invasion, Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Now the Pentagon names it, you know that they research the most effective, propagandistic name, but the media is not supposed to take that name and name their own coverage with that, but that's exactly what they did — NBC, MSNBC, CNN — called it Operation Iraqi Freedom. (Actually the Pentagon had come up with a name before Operation Iraqi Freedom — they had come up with Operation Iraqi Liberation, but they realized the acronym was O.I.L, and so they had to come up with something else.)

So the name of the coverage was that (Operation Iraqi Freedom), and when you have something like that, when you have Dan Rather the night of the invasion, the night the bombs began to fall, saying "Good morning, Baghdad," you have Tom Brokaw saying the night the bombs are falling, you know March 19, 2003, "We don't want to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq because we're going to own that country in a few days," you have to ask if we had state media in the United States how would it be any different?

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21250/

Discovery Channel feature on climate change, host Tom Brokaw failed to present the contrarian case. Little says, "... the fact is the program did not show anyone with proper scientific credentials to express an opposing viewpoint. That's not balance. That's propaganda."

http://www.desmogblog.com/when-balanced-journalism-is-anything-but-balanced