News Coverage of U.S. Foreign Policy. Media Bias by Omission | Global Research

News Coverage of U.S. Foreign Policy. Media Bias by Omission | Global Research

“Bias in favor of the orthodox is frequently mistaken for
‘objectivity’. Departures from this ideological orthodoxy are themselves
dismissed as ideological.” – Michael Parenti

An exchange in January with Paul Farhi, Washington Post columnist, about coverage of US foreign policy:

Dear Mr. Farhi,

Now that you’ve done a study of al-Jazeera’s political bias in
supporting Mohamed Morsi in Egypt, is it perhaps now time for a study of
the US mass media’s bias on US foreign policy? And if you doubt the
extent and depth of this bias, consider this:

There are more than 1,400 daily newspapers in the United States. Can
you name a single paper, or a single TV network, that was unequivocally
opposed to the American wars carried out against Libya, Iraq,
Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Panama, Grenada, and Vietnam? Or even opposed
to any two of these wars? How about one? In 1968, six years into the
Vietnam war, the Boston Globe surveyed the editorial positions of 39 leading US papers concerning the war and found that “none advocated a pull-out”.

Now, can you name an American daily newspaper or TV network that more
or less gives any support to any US government ODE (Officially
Designated Enemy)? Like Hugo Chávez of Venezuela or his successor,
Nicolás Maduro; Fidel or Raúl Castro of Cuba; Bashar al-Assad of Syria;
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran; Rafael Correa of Ecuador; or Evo Morales of
Bolivia? I mean that presents the ODE’s point of view in a reasonably
fair manner most of the time? Or any ODE of the recent past like
Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, Moammar Gaddafi of Libya, Robert Mugabe of
Zimbabwe, or Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti?