Operation Swarmer - OMFG!!
 

Seems the media is promoting this recent "greatest use of airpower since the beginning of the Iraq war" operation a little too heavily - much to the liking of Karl Rove and Bush Inc.

http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...174448,00.html

You have to wonder why Fox, CNN and MSNBC keep falling for these publicity stunts that always seem to occur when the Prez needs a boost in the polls

And it's the 3 year anniversary of the war :)
Happy Anniversary

Somebody needs to redo the old Country Joe and the Fish song - one two three what are we fighting for?

Bill Maher ripped one of his congressional panelists on that topic :D

He sure did.
Richard Belzer could barely contain himself:)

Richard Belzer is one very interesting dude. :)

When the current Iraq mess started, Bush has a number of media "embedded" with the troops on the ground. It was the ultimate step to control the media, and to refine and narrow the message to only the points that the US adminstration thought valid. The initial view of this was Shock and Awe, followed by an almost impossible direct run the the captial with little or no reported opposition.

In the last 10 years or so, the media has more and more become a direct tool of the government in power. Less and less of the "news" you see each day is actually a story written by the reporter, and instead is basically a retelling of the press notes given directly by the governement of the day. Reporters are becoming more and more lazy as hard news dies a quiet death.

The current deal is managing news cycles. It starts on Sunday with the Meet the Press style stories where whatever the story of the week will be is declared by the whitehouse or people on it's side, and the media then takes the quotes from those shows and uses it in the Monday news casts, which prompts the replies on the Tuesday newscast, followed by the whitehouse reaction (denial, support, or misdirection) on Wednesday. That leaves only 2 days of real news (thursday friday) before that week's cycle is complete. After that, set up your next target item and do the Sunday shows again. You can judge the importance of the item by the level of people who appears on those news shows.

The media is lead to the story, and told not only how to drink, but when to drink and how to report the flavor.

http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artm...ew.cgi/37/9592

There is just way too much of this spoon fed pablum getting jammed down people's throats, and they are enjoying the bland flavorless crap.

Alex

The same people that own the mass media own the president. They are making hundreds of billions out of this war, pretty much a straight transfer of tax funds to their pockets.

That's why the media has been a joke thru this whole thing.

http://www.sploid.com/news/2006/03/operation_bs.php

From Sploid:

"Time Magazine put it more bluntly:

"In fact, there were no airstrikes and no leading insurgents were nabbed in an operation that some skeptical military analysts described as little more than a photo op. What's more, there were no shots fired at all and the units had met no resistance, said the U.S. and Iraqi commanders."

The world news media was duped.

"So how and why did this latest apparently routine combing operation, yielding a few arms caches and netting some low-grade suspects, manage to win stop-press coverage around the world?," the BBC asked.

"The use of the phrase 'the largest air assault operation' was clearly crucial, raising visions of a massive bombing campaign."

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The media just keeps on saying, "Doh! Duped again! We sure are dumb! Doh! We never get anything right do we? But keep on watching, next time we're sure to be right.".

Wow, I gotta get out more... maybe listen to the news or something. I never heard of all this but I agree if they wanted publicity, they got it.

www.tvnewslies.org is great