Saturday, April 02, 2005

 

Wonder Why Both The US News Media And The US Intelligence Community Are So Pathetically Bad?

Check out this Consortium article for a hint as to why. Here's a snippet therefrom:

The Silberman-Robb commission said it didn’t take a broader look at the political climate that surrounded the WMD intelligence because the panel was “not authorized” by Bush to do so. But a truly serious examination of how the nation got to this place where American soldiers can be sent off to war for bogus reasons and because of “dead wrong” intelligence would require even a deeper look back at the crumbling of institutions that Americans count on for supplying accurate information. That change began in earnest more than a quarter century ago when U.S. conservative leaders decided to invest heavily in building a new infrastructure of media outlets and think tanks that would shift Washington’s “conventional wisdom” to the right. The conservatives called their strategy “the war of ideas,” but it was really a battle over the control of information. The principal targets were the Washington press corps – which was blamed for exposing Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal and revealing the Pentagon Papers history of the Vietnam War – and the CIA’s analytical division.
Go read the whole thing. It's eye-opening.


# posted by Phoenix Woman @ 4/02/2005 05:38:00 PM
Comments:
Why isn't Robert Parry anchoring The NewsHour on PBS?

Alice Marshall
GOTV
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 4/02/2005 07:26:00 PM
 
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