Continuing from our discussion from Tuesday, here's Greenwald (hit this link for story in full,http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/06/23/al_qaeda/index.htmlbeginning his story (Everyone we fight in Iraq is now 'al-Qaida') with a quote of an observant reader:
Josh Marshall (www.talkingpointsmemo.com - Xin) publishes an e-mail from a reader who identifies what is one of the most astonishing instances of mindless, pro-government "reporting" yet:
It's a curious thing that, over the past 10 - 12 days, the news from Iraq refers to the combatants there as 'al-Qaida' fighters. When did that happen?
Until a few days ago, the combatants in Iraq were 'insurgents' or they were referred to as 'Sunni' or 'Shia'a' fighters in the Iraq Civil War. Suddenly, without evidence, without proof, without any semblance of fact, the US military command is referring to these combatants as 'al-Qaida'.
Welcome to the latest in Iraq propaganda.
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This reader, who identified himself as SM, is the hope of democracy in America. I mean, you can't ask politicians to always be telling the truth, can you?
Nor can you trust the media. Even those who claim to be "free" and "independent" are only independent to a degree - independent to major news networks, that is. They are not "independent" from presenting (their own equally) subjective views and are certainly not "free" from making errors, typo, editorial or judgmental.
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