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I read and have been reading about the complicity of the corporate media to whitewash and/or ignore any and all view points that it disagrees with.  This is writing is from tristero, Hullabaloo blog:

The press has the power to bamboozle its constituency, the American people. And they have, over and over again. It is extremely dangerous for a country half as powerful as the United States to have a media as dysfunctional as this one.

As Glenn Greenwald has pointed out about the almost complete lack of corporate television news coverage of a major component to the bamboozlement of the American public about the Pentagon program of using retired generals and admirals, fed information, to promote a pro war view in the guise of being "objective" commentators for the major networks.   As MediaMatters.org has done a survey of network coverage and has shown that:

...experts more than 4,500 times on ABC, ABC News Now, CBS, CBS Radio Network, NBC, CNN, CNN Headline News, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, and NPR.

Journalism is not about making the corporate bottom line black.  When the press does not do it's constitutional duty to hold accountable the government then it has failed in it's only job.


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