Enver Masud, "Broadcasting Fairness Doctrine
Promised Balanced Coverage," July 25, 1997
Robert Fisk, "Saddam Statue Scene
Staged," Independent, April 11, 2003
["For far too long, Hollywood has played a paradoxically hidden role
in paving the way to America's war now winding down in Iraq. We
first went to war with Iraq in 1943, with a movie called "Adventure
in Iraq."--Jack Shaheen, "Will Hollywood stop Arab-bashing?," Los
Angeles Times, April 21, 2003]
["What makes the difference today is the technology that produces an
avalanche of repetitive information, which in the United States has
been the source of arguably the most vociferous brainwashing in that
country's history.
"A war that was hardly a war, that was so one-sided it ought to be
despatched with shame in the military annals, was reported like a
Formula One race, as we watched the home teams speed to the
chequered flag in Baghdad's Firdos Square, where a statue of the
dictator created and sustained by 'us' was pulled down in a ceremony
that was as close to fakery as you could get."--John Pilger, "Something deeply
corrupt is consuming journalism," April 25, 2003]
Robert Fisk, "Did the US Murder Journalists?," Independent, April 26,
2003
["If information is the oxygen of democracy, the United States has
just been gassed, not by weapons of mass destruction but by a weapon
of mass distraction.
". . . the hammer is about to drop on the Internet too. The head of the
FCC, Michael Powell, wants to give away what's left of the store to
the broadband cable and satellite providers and make them
gatekeepers or tollbooths on the information highway."--Ian Masters,
"Media Monopolies Have Muzzled Dissent,"
Los Angeles Times, May 1, 2003]
["Whether this endeavor in Iraq will turn out to be worth the doing
is now at a critical point, and the media have decided it's no
longer a story. . . . But the weirdest media reaction of all is to
the ongoing non-appearance of weapons of mass destruction in
Iraq."--Molly Ivins, "'Damn,
we're Americans!'," Creators Syndicate, May 8, 2003]
["U.S. intelligence on Iraq's WMD deserves a second look. So does
the reporting of the New York Times' Judith Miller. "--Jack Shafer,
"Reassessing Miller,"
Slate, May 29, 2003]