Feed The Enemy

[mogster]

Feed The Enemy
Magazine, 1979

It's always raining over the border
there's been a plane crash out there
in the wheatfields
they're picking up the pieces
we could go and look
and stare

How many friends have we over there ?
the border guards fight unconvincingly
whatever we do
it seems things are arranged
we always have to feed the enemy

You could dance for me
and punch me through
dance for me

We watched them trash the last camera
glued to all our TV's
the actors on the replay
trying again to touch you and me

But they always seem to know
exactly what they're talking about
now they've got you in a corner
you've got no room to move
you've got no room for doubt
that's exactly what they're talking about
now they're got you in a corner
no room to move
no room for doubt

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This slightly paranoid text comes from one of my favouite albums of all time, and is the perfect description of the near void that news from Iraq represents, and how it is all set up to be like that. It serves as a pretext for posting the link to this film:

Iraq: The Hidden War

The most censored war of the television era

http://www.brasscheck.com/videos/iraq/iraqwar7.html

"Journalism - particularly television journalism - by its failure to show the real horror of war has become a lethal weapon supporting governments that want to go to war."

- Robert Fisk. Middle East Correspondant. The Independent - UK.

[OneBlueSky]

1. the corporate media has a job to do . . .

protecting the profits of Halliburton, Bechtel, oil companies, and arms dealers . . . as well as the government that these institutions control . . .

they do it well . . . very, very, very well . . .

[mogster]

2. There is a void concerning Iraq

In reporting, world wide. I think this is very worrysome, because there are so many stories being lost.
The film takes on several, and mr. Fisk adresses the problem about reporting very deftly.