Here’s a collection of US media agency memos directing journos to manipulate their reporting. I find this whole thing detestable. Here’s one example memo that makes me ill:
(April 7 ) …no shots of GIs looting in Baghdad. Iraqi looters should be described as “joyful” at being liberated by US. Looting to be described as a “deprived people getting food for families”…all pictures from forbidden French press sources of a US General’s staff car being filled with paintings and carpets to be blacklisted at Pentagon request. If such pixs show up on other networks, comment be made that General is “rescuing art treasures to preserve them for the Iraqi people.” Also Iraqi rioters could be shown waving in friendly way to GIs.
It is an offence to my intelligence that most US people I know have no idea about this, and seem to not even have an inkling that this kind of thing goes on. Amazing!
