"Nobody in the US Said a Word Until the Riots"

[Judi Lynn]

May 28 / 30, 2005

"Nobody in the US Said a Word Until the Riots"
Isikoff Comes Clean
By JOSHUA FRANK

Decades ago we were told how consent is manufactured in these great - United States of America. Yet our government since then has become even more up-front about its motives for employing propaganda.

Recently, George W. Bush was in Rochester, N.Y., promoting his social security shtick, when suddenly a flicker of truth gleamed through. "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in - to kind of catapult the propaganda."

Inundate the masses with the same monotonous oratory, and eventually they'll buy it. They'll have to. They'll have no choice. Really, as even Bush surely knows, it doesn't matter how truthful the rhetoric is, it's how many times you've shoved it down Americans' throats that counts. Eventually they'll believe the lie, no matter how grandiose it may be.

Well, the Bush administration isn't alone when it comes to dispersing misinformation; they've got their trusted mainstream media allies aiding and abetting every step of the way.
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http://www.counterpunch.org/frank05282005.html

[Demit]

1. What I don't understand is, why was this detail almost ignored in the

Newsweek brouhaha--

As the article says, "Michael Isikoff explained how senior reporters ran their Koran abuse story by a senior Defense Department official. The official, Isikoff claimed, told them to go-ahead with the report. It was solid."

Newsweek's only sin was that they implied they had two sources when they really only had the one. And then that one recanted. Why wasn't that the story? That they relied on a senior official to be giving the straight skinny and he didn't?

Why did Newsweek fall so readily on its sword?

[Selatius]

2. Who owns Newsweek?

[robertarctor]

3. Um, the propaganda-catapulting Washington Post?

Another quisling brick in the massive BBLM*.

<* Bush's Bootlicking Media>