Full Version: Powell on Meet the Press
Powell: "I was lied to..."
Well almost,
Powell instead said that he was "mislead" -- but that is a big deal. Sadly, most of the press is just reporting the attempt to end the interview, and ignoring the content of the interview.
How can we have good government if we don't let our confirmed officers really know what is going on?
We can't, can we?
Links:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?t...storyID=5156653
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=47141
And the distraction stories:
http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/24213.htm
http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view...articleid=28170
http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/gol...00405190859.asp
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/5/17/93941.shtml
http://www.channeloklahoma.com/news/3311586/detail.html
http://www.sltrib.com/2004/May/05172004/nation_w/167397.asp
In this case they just don't report the facts that are important, and turn a minor issue into the story. Can you say pro-pa-ganda?
Is this deliberate, or are the media just more interested in personality stories?
Link:
http://www.newsinsider.org/seal/decoding_m...propaganda.html
Well almost,
Powell instead said that he was "mislead" -- but that is a big deal. Sadly, most of the press is just reporting the attempt to end the interview, and ignoring the content of the interview.
QUOTE
The comments, made on Sunday in an interview with NBC TV, represented the first public official admission that the US government had been fed disinformation about Saddam Hussein’s suspect arsenal of chemical and biological weapons and relayed it to the world community without questioning it.
"It turned out that the sourcing was inaccurate and wrong and, in some cases, deliberately misleading," Powell said, appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press program. "And for that I am disappointed, and I regret it."
"It turned out that the sourcing was inaccurate and wrong and, in some cases, deliberately misleading," Powell said, appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press program. "And for that I am disappointed, and I regret it."
How can we have good government if we don't let our confirmed officers really know what is going on?
We can't, can we?
Links:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?t...storyID=5156653
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=47141
And the distraction stories:
http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/24213.htm
http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view...articleid=28170
http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/gol...00405190859.asp
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/5/17/93941.shtml
http://www.channeloklahoma.com/news/3311586/detail.html
http://www.sltrib.com/2004/May/05172004/nation_w/167397.asp
QUOTE
Rewrite and Confuse: When an irrefutable story comes out, you create a parallel, but bogus story -parallel but different enough to confuse the public who then is no longer sure which story is which, or which is for real, unless they have read it very attentively.
In this case they just don't report the facts that are important, and turn a minor issue into the story. Can you say pro-pa-ganda?
Is this deliberate, or are the media just more interested in personality stories?
Link:
http://www.newsinsider.org/seal/decoding_m...propaganda.html
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