Newsweek's Koran Story Rubber Stamped by DoD

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Propaganda, Bush-Style
Newsweek's Koran Story Rubber Stamped by DoD
by Joshua Frank
www.dissidentvoice.org
May 26, 2005

Recently, George W. Bush was in Rochester, New York 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. . . . 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. Case in point: One of the journalists behind the retracted Newsweek article alleging that US interrogators desecrated the Koran recently came clean about the corporate media's role in disseminating the government line. During the May 23 episode of the Charlie Rose Show, veteran Newsweek investigative reporter 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....
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