Murdoch's World: Demagoguery, Propaganda, Scandal, Sleaze and Warmongering (tags)
Murdoch
The importance of the independent media (tags)
"The mass media form for us our image of the world and then tell us what to think about that image. Essentially everything we know—or think we know—about events outside our own neighborhood or circle of acquaintances comes to us via our daily newspaper, our weekly news magazine, our radio, or our television."
The staged rescue of Private Jessica Lynch (tags)
The Correspondent team had gone back to Nasiriyah to interview eyewitnesses on events and found an entirely different story. Doctors insisted that far from being ill treated Lynch had received the best treatment possible. Assigned to the only specialist bed in the hospital, and one of only two nurses on the floor, medical staff had even given blood to help her due to a shortage.
Cultural Imperialism goes into overdrive. American style television will now be broadcast into Iraq by way of a new U.S. created satellite network. Peter Jennings and Dan Rather will now report the "truth" to the Iraqi people. "Lifestyle" programs presenting "American values" will also be beamed into the Arab nation (Photo - Iraqis watch the news on a television connected to a satellite dish in Baghdad Saturday, April 19, 2003. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)