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American Media Uses Disinformation to Guide Policy: Corporations Have More Say Than Bush on Foreign Affairs
Thursday, October 11, 2001
By Bill White
Pravda.RU

The situation in America is a vivid demonstration of what can go wrong when small wealthy cliques are permitted to gain monopoly control over an industry vital to the health of a nation -- and why most of the world's ruling cliques view control of the media as vital to their control of the state.

"94% of Americans support George Bush’s decision to bomb Afghanistan" Washington’s main news radio station announced Sunday, as attacks began. "This is an unprecedented level of support -- even during the Gulf campaign, only 74% of Americans supported military action. America is truly united."

The report followed the release of a poll by CNN-USA Today-Gallup, stating that 30% of Americans blame the September 11 attack on US-Israeli Policy, but 92% believe the US should join forces with Israel in fighting it’s war. But those reports were in stark contrast to polls that appeared outside of the US media. A poll released by Reuters to the Israeli press showed that 58% of Americans believe that US Israel policy was primarily responsible for the attack, and that a plurality of Americans -- 46% to 43% -- believe that the US should begin withdrawing from the Middle East and particularly reducing or cutting aid to Israel. That poll never made it onto Washington news radio.

It wasn't the only one.

Since the attack Americans have been bombarded with the notion that it is their freedom and their democracy, and not its foreign policy and global empire, that the Muslim world hates. And while the Bush government has so far moved forward with quite a bit of moderation, the line of the American media has been one of infinite escalation -- with Iraq, with Syria, with all of Islam, and with the entire world.

* Disinformation on Foreign Affairs
* The Fourth Estate
* Front Groups And Ambassadors
* War On Two Fronts
* Conclusions
* The Barons (a rather long list)
(More: Pravda News Source)
2002 © Pravda.RU.

Oddly enough, Bill’s supposedly complete list of commercial barons ignores MCI, WorldCom, MCI WordCom, UUNet (the last two were individual corporate entities during October, but this has since changed), Microsoft, Apple, and Macintosh, though it lists AOL twice, once with Time-Warner, and again as stand-alone company America On-Line.

Dan