ABC, Where Are You???
"US Troops foil a kidnap attempt in Baghdad". You would think, given the level of reporting on kidnapping and other violence in Iraq, that news that US Troops had foiled a kidnap attempt would be banner news.That, of course, would suppose that the major media organizations were actually intent on reporting the news factually, and not pursuing another agenda altogether. What is that agenda?
Everyone 'knows' that CBS/Walter Kronkite came back from Vietnam after the Tet Offensive (in which the Viet Cong were completely defeated, their local organizations routed and destroyed) and reported that the war was lost, changing US policy and goals. They just shrugged their shoulders and barely reported the murder of millions during the idealogical 'cleansing' that followed the ignomious withdrawal of the US.
The same goal is apparent in Iraq; to 'spin' the reporting so negatively that the will of the US government and its people to support the people of Iraq will be broken. The 'real' goal has been and continues to be to encourage and force the growth of isolationisma and the withdrawal of the US as a power on the world stage.
So the next time you see one of those smiling, smirking talking heads reporting on how 'bad' the US efforts are to promote (your topic here) for US Interests, give them what they deserve - a big raspberry!! (Hey Peter Jennings, I'm talking to you!!)
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