After Giving Mea Culpas for Horrible Iraq Coverage, Media Does the Exact Same Thing On Ukraine
We noted last year that – despite all of the mea culpas for horrible Iraq coverage – the American media was doing the exact same thing in Syria.
In reality, it’s not just Iraq or Syria … the corporate media is always pro-war, and pro-empire.
After all, American media never discusses the fact that the U.S. has planned on taking control of Ukraine since 1997 … if not earlier.
Former Associated Press and Newsweek reporter Robert Parry notes:
As
the Ukraine crisis continues to deepen, the mainstream U.S. news media
is sinking to new lows of propaganda and incompetence. Somehow, a
violent neo-Nazi-spearheaded putsch overthrowing a democratically
elected president was refashioned into a “legitimate” regime, then the
“interim” government and now simply “Ukraine.”
The
Washington Post’s screaming headline on Sunday is “Ukraine decries
Russian ‘invasion,’” treating the coup regime in Kiev as if it speaks
for the entire country when it clearly speaks for only a subset of the
population, mostly from western Ukraine. The regime’s “legitimacy” comes
not from a democratic election but from a coup that was quickly
embraced by the U.S. government and the European Union.
Objective
U.S. journalists would insist on a truthful narrative that conveys
these nuances to the American people, not simply behave as clumsy
propagandists determined to glue “white hats” on the side favored by the
State Department and “black hats” on everyone that the U.S. government
disdains. But virtually the entire mainstream press corps has opted for
the propaganda role, much as it has in the past. Think Iraq 2002-03.
You also might remember the mainstream media’s rush to judgment over the Sarin attack in Syria on
Aug. 21, 2013. The State Department rashly blamed the incident on the
Syrian government despite serious doubts inside the U.S. intelligence
community. [Background]
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