John Pilger, "The Media's Culpability for
Iraq," Antiwar.com, October 1, 2004
David Ray Griffin, "9/11 and the
Mainstream Press," The Wisdom Fund, August 1, 2005
Kristina Borjesson, "Feet
to the Fire: The Media After 9/11, Top Journalists Speak Out,"
Prometheus Books (October 18, 2005)
James Bamford, "The Man Who Sold
the War," Rolling Stone, November 17, 2005
[US crimes in the same period have only been superficially recorded, let
alone documented, let alone acknowledged, let alone recognised as crimes at
all.-- Harold Pinter, "The Nobel Lecture:
Art, Truth and Politics," Nobelprize.org, December 7, 2005]
FOIA request for videotapes of 9/11 Pentagon crash stalled,
9/11 Special Interest Group, January 1, 2006
Top 10 Project
Censored News Stories, January 27, 2006
Danny Schecter, "WHEN
NEWS LIES: Media Complicity and The Iraq War", Select Books (NY),
Book and DVD Documentary edition (January 1, 2006)
["Most of the anti-war movement focused on the crimes of the Bush
Administration ignoring the mainstream media, its far more effective
accomplice," says former network producer Danny Schechter (ABC, CNN). "The
government orchestrated the war while the media marketed it. You couldn't
have one without the other."--Danny Schechter, "WHEN NEWS LIES: Media
Complicity and The Iraq War," The News Dissector, February 4, 2006]
[Here are the sources - on pages one and 10 for the yarn spun by reporters
Josh Meyer and Mark Mazzetti: "US officials said", "said one US Justice
Department counter-terrorism official", "Officials ... said", "those
officials said", "the officials confirmed", "American officials complained",
"the US officials stressed", "US authorities believe", "said one senior US
intelligence official", "US officials said", "Jordanian officials ... said"
- here, at least is some light relief - "several US officials said", "the US
officials said", "American officials said", "officials say", "say US
officials", "US officials said", "one US counter-terrorism official said".
I do truly treasure this story. It proves my point that the Los Angeles
Times - along with the big east coast dailies - should all be called US
OFFICIALS SAY.--Robert Fisk, "The
farcical end of the American dream," Independent, March 18, 2006]
[During the Cold War, a group of Russian journalists toured the United
States. On the final day of their visit, they were asked by their hosts for
their impressions. "I have to tell you," said their spokesman, "that we were
astonished to find, after reading all the newspapers and watching TV, that
all the opinions on all the vital issues were, by and large, the same. To
get that result in our country, we imprison people, we tear out their
fingernails. Here, you don't have that. What's the secret? How do you do
it?" . . .
In my career as a journalist, there has never been a war on terror but a war
of terror. Not long ago I walked down a leafy street in Jakarta, Indonesia,
where the former dictator General Suharto is living out his life in luxury,
having stolen from his people an estimated $10 billion. A United Nations
truth commission had just released a report, based on official files, that
credits Suharto with the deaths of 180,000 people in East Timor. It says
that the United States played a "primary role" in this terror. Britain and
Australia are named as accessories to this vast suffering.--John Pilger, "War by Media,"
johnpilger.com, April 14, 2006]
[Throughout both presidential campaigns and the entire Iraq war to date, the
media acted as a virtual mouthpiece for the White House, giving watered-down
coverage of major policy decisions, wartime abuses of power, and egregious
mistakes -- and sometimes these events never made it into the news at
all.--Eric Boehlert, "Lapdogs:
How the Press Rolled Over for Bush," Free Press, May 9, 2006]
[The reality in this case is that after a 16-month, $900-million-plus
investigation, the U.S. weapons hunters known as the Iraq Survey Group
declared that Iraq had dismantled its chemical, biological and nuclear arms
programs in 1991 under U.N. oversight. That finding in 2004 reaffirmed the
work of U.N. inspectors who in 2002-03 found no trace of banned arsenals in
Iraq.--Charles J. Hanley, "Half of U.S. Still Believes Iraq Had WMD,"
Associated Press, August 7, 2006]
[Chomsky
timidly regurgitates the official line by saying that the version we are
force-fed by the mainstream media is "pretty much what happened", with 19
Arab hijackers responsible for the planning and execution of the attacks. He
claims that he hasn't seen any "credible evidence" to suggest otherwise.
. . . he cites an imaginary and illusory body of "thousands of highly
qualified engineers" with the "appropriate credentials" that can apparently
prove how the official collapse model is scientifically sound. Who are these
engineers? Why won't they, along with the NIST engineers, debate the
peer-reviewed science put forth by the Scholars?--"Chomsky Fears
9/11 Debate," indymedia.org, September 14, 2006]
Edward S. Herman, "Linguistic Somersaults in an Age of Aggression and State
Terrorism," Z Magazine, forthcoming December 2006
VIDEO:
"The 9/11 Solution: The big clue everyone missed,"
brasschecktv.com, February 7, 2007
Zbigniew Brzezinski, "Terrorized by 'War on Terror',"
Washington Post, March 25, 2007
VIDEO: Bill Moyers, "Bill Moyers
Journal: Buying the War," PBS, April 25, 2007
[At the core of this pseudo-world is the myth that our national institutions, including
those of government, the military and finance, are efficient and virtuous, that we can
trust them and that their intentions are good. These institutions can be criticized for
excesses and abuses, but they cannot be assailed as being hostile to democracy and the
common good. They cannot be exposed as criminal enterprises, at least if one hopes to
retain a voice in the mass media.--Chris Hedges, "The Myth of the Free Press," TruthDig,
October 26, 2014]
Art Swift, "Americans'
Trust in Mass Media Sinks to New Low," gallup.com, September 14, 2016