Unbiased News…..Republican Style.
If you are a thinking person, you really knew that it had to happen. What I mean is, those of us who cherish freedom of speech and freedom of the the press have come to know the Bush Administration as one that shuts out ideas from the opposition while creating propoganda films which are aired as actual news stories on TV stations around the country. Since the Bush administration is happily installing western style democracy in Islamic countries, didn’t you just have to know that eventually Iraq would have a Bush-style propoganda machine in place?
Yes friends, the new U.S. colony of Iraq, now has Bush-style freedom of the press. Your tax dollars are being used to pay Iraqi newspapers to run news articles written by Army media experts and present them as if they were unbiased news accounts written by independent journalists. The U.S. military has also purchased a newspaper and taken over a commercial broadcast station which it uses to get the U.S. message out.
Interestingly, U.S. law forbids the military from planting propaganda with media outlets. That’s probably one of the things that the Bush lawyers found to be a “quaint” law. To their credit, several senior military officers are attempting to point out the hypocracy of attempting to install a democracy in Iraq while subverting the basic principles of democracy to do it.
In other news, the Bush Administration, after declaring “mission accomplished” two years ago, will present its plan for victory in Iraq today.
