An Upside-Down Media
As Sherlock Holmes famously observed, sometimes it's the dog that didn't bark that is most instructive. In the United States, that rule could be applied to a national news media that goes about its daily routine without treating George W. Bush's extraordinary seizure of constitutional power as a major story. It is a grave indictment of the U.S. press that Bush could replace America's two-century-old democratic Republic with his personal authoritarian rule -- and that earth-shattering development would barely be noticed.For the full story of how the news media can't handle the truth, Read this article by Robert Parry here.
Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek. His latest book, Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq, can be ordered here. It's also available at Amazon.com, as is his 1999 book, Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & 'Project Truth.'
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