Critique of faux (fox) news. (Insider Report).The war in Iraq was a ratings bonanza for Fox News, the neoconservative ne·o·con·ser·va·tism also ne·o-con·ser·va·tism n. An intellectual and political movement in favor of political, economic, and social conservatism that arose in opposition to the perceived liberalism of the 1960s: cable network owned by Australian expatriate Rupert Murdoch, a member of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an influential and independent, nonpartisan foreign policy membership organization founded in 1921 and based at 58 East 68th Street (corner Park Avenue) in New York City, with an additional office in Washington, D.C. and admitted "friend of China." As Israeli media The following is a list of Israeli media. Print media
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epiploic appendages see under appendix . of the Bush administration--and at the same time the dominant news source in the global media. "America's Fox News network has been demonstrating since the start of the war in Iraq an amazing lesson in media hypocrisy," commented Alper. "The anchors, reporters and commentators unceasingly emphasize that the war's goal is to free the Iraqi people from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein (born April 28, 1937, Tikrit, Iraq—died Dec. 30, 2006, Baghdad) President of Iraq (1979–2003). He joined the Ba'th Party in 1957. Following participation in a failed attempt to assassinate Iraqi Pres. ." But this insistent theme represents an "effective, rapid and decisive rewriting of history" in real time, Alper contends. "The argument about the connection between Saddam's regime and al-Qaeda and the attack on the Twin Towers has disappeared, and the 'axis of evil,' which also included Iran and North Korea, has evaporated," notes the Israeli commentator. "There's practically no mention of the stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction Weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such a manner as to destroy large numbers of people. Weapons of mass destruction can be high explosives or nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons, but exclude the means of transporting or and how they were hid from the UN inspectors as being the official reason for the war." Other inconvenient facts "rectified" (using Orwell's term) from Fox's war coverage were "that the U.S. armed Iraq in its war against Iran in the 1980s, or that it turned a blind eye when Saddam Hussein brutally put down a 1991 uprising with chemical weapons after the first Gulf War...." |
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