"This just in: We are doing a great job! Heck of a job, even!"
Well, it's about 24 hours into the campaign and I'm already electioned out. For a change of pace, let's turn to Bush administration skulduggery, since it's been a while since I've typed anything about that, and god knows there's plenty of it to choose from.
In case Bill O'Reilly doesn't talk about this on his show tonight and you don't hear about this story otherwise, I thought I'd share this with you: According to this article in today's LA Times by Mark Mazzetti and part-time CBC freelancer Borzou Daragahi (I think he's still doing work for the corp), the US government is paying newspapers in Iraq to run positive news stories written by troops. Of course, many if not most of the articles are claiming to be written by independent, objective journalists:
"The articles, written by U.S. military "information operations" troops, are translated into Arabic and placed in Baghdad newspapers with the help of a defense contractor, according to U.S. military officials and documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times.
Many of the articles are presented in the Iraqi press as unbiased news accounts written and reported by independent journalists. The stories trumpet the work of U.S. and Iraqi troops, denounce insurgents and tout U.S.-led efforts to rebuild the country."
Freedom is on the march, indeed.
In case Bill O'Reilly doesn't talk about this on his show tonight and you don't hear about this story otherwise, I thought I'd share this with you: According to this article in today's LA Times by Mark Mazzetti and part-time CBC freelancer Borzou Daragahi (I think he's still doing work for the corp), the US government is paying newspapers in Iraq to run positive news stories written by troops. Of course, many if not most of the articles are claiming to be written by independent, objective journalists:
"The articles, written by U.S. military "information operations" troops, are translated into Arabic and placed in Baghdad newspapers with the help of a defense contractor, according to U.S. military officials and documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times.
Many of the articles are presented in the Iraqi press as unbiased news accounts written and reported by independent journalists. The stories trumpet the work of U.S. and Iraqi troops, denounce insurgents and tout U.S.-led efforts to rebuild the country."
Freedom is on the march, indeed.
2 Comments:
I read parts of your idiot blog (as you described it) after I googled Stephen Harper sucks. Good stuff. Harper's hair was described to me as "Ken-doll" and "Lego snap-on".
Inside the hair is the brain that champions the narrow-minded perspective and celebrates the status quo.
I believe the Lego reference is inaccurate, it most certainly is more akin to the Playmobil hairpiece from Playmobil figures.
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