what news journalism ought to be Re: Iraq unable to have democracy

Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
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> Thomas Friedman wrote some thoughts along those lines.  Before the invasion
> of Iraq and the fall of Saddam's regime, he wrote that it was hard to know
> if Iraq was the way it was because of Saddam's brutal regime, or if
> Saddam's brutal regime was the way it was because of the nature of Iraq.

I do not know if TF is the same guy who appeared on the Newshour as a
regular
reporter working for the New York Times. I am going to assume (correct
or incorrect) that he is.

And this gives me a nice opportunity to critique the News Media
coverage of events.

The TF that appeared on the Newshour (and I am assuming that TF is
Jewish).
Gave a nice rundown report on Iraq, but when he gave his report on
Israel and the conditions there, he was a failure as a newsreporter. I
believe his failing is because TF is Jewish and so biased as to not be
able to give a objective report on Israel.

FAILURE of News Journalism during Vietnam:
The failure here is easy to spot. The govt. went into Vietnam as a
"Domino Falling theory". The News Media, unfortunately, adopted the
Domino theory also for both the govt and private citizenry saw the
Korean War. That was the failure
because the News Media from 1960 to 1975 preached alongside the
government itself that Vietnam was a Domino. When instead, if the News
Media had done their job, had been perfect journalists and
professional people at work in news media would have diverged from the
government propaganda of Domino Effect and instead kept harping from
about 1962 onwards that Vietnam was a "Revolution for Independence
just like the USA in 1776".

The News and Press and Media outlets failed the world public from 1960
to 1975
concerning Vietnam.

Likewise the News media is failing the world as far as Israel
Palestine is concerned. It is a known fact that much of the news media
in the USA is owned and controlled by Jewish community. So the
question is.

How many times in print in the New York Times or any other news outlet
do the American people hear the words that "Israel and the Jews are
stealing the land of the WestBank and Gaza"

I bet only on the Internet, in these posts to soc.history and
talk.politics.theory are there sentences saying that "Israel and the
Jews are stealing land."

So, what good does it do for TF of the New York Times to even saying
anything about Israel when he can never unblindfold himself and have
the courage to say the truth-- Israel is a systematic stealer of land
from 1948 onwards.

The News has an obligation to report the facts. The News Media has 2
obligations
to the public.

(1) report the facts
(2) interpret the facts as per past history

Most news media is okay on (1)

Most news media fail on (2). They failed in Vietnam. They failed with
Iraq and the removal of SH. They failed miserably on the Israel
Palestine Conflict.

With Iraq and (2) the news media should have dumped Bush's reasons of
weapons of mass destruction and substituted the real gravity pull of
Iraq in a world of diminishing oil supplies the USA wants the worlds
2nd largest oil reserves.

We will never get out of Iraq until they have no more oil.

Most news reports are worthless to read because they are allied with
the government and thus they are a mere propaganda pandering for the
government itself.

If a news reporter or agency cannot do (2) then they should stick to
(1) solely.

The News could have brought an end to the Vietnam War way back in the
1960s if they had done a good job of (2) and that means "teaching the
American people
some past history like the 1776 Revolution" instead, the newsmedia was
nothing more than another propaganda board for the government.

Archimedes Plutonium
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