Is the Corporate Media Complicit In American's Indifference and Acceptance of War?

Question

Professor Noam Chomsky writes as follows about the US destruction on November 9, 2004 of Fallujah General Hospital in Iraq: "The word 'conflict' is a common euphemism for US aggression, as when we read [in the New York Times] that 'now the Americans are rushing in engineers who will begin rebuilding what the conflict has just destroyed' -- just 'the conflict,' with no agent, like a hurricane." Professor Chomsky expresses his outrage at the way a leading newspaper contrives to obscure moral responsibility for destroying a hospital filled with patients and medical personnel while reassuring readers that some kind of meaningful rescue is underway.

Answer 1

Like many and all corporations,the media's corporations' raison d'etre is PROFITS period.

Furthermore and of paramount importance,is that media corporations are as needing of "special consideration" of Congress as are all other corporations so in the monumentally gigantic QUID PRO QUO which is Washington,the plutocrats together look after their own needs first and then if no major conflict of interests exists,Congress will give WE THE PEOPLE a little something. .

THE TRUTH THE FACTS are always the first casualties of war and no self respecting media will tolerate for a nano second ,facts and the truth getting in the way of profit making.

Here are a few factors that are very germane:

For all their CHEAP COST NOTHING mouthing of platitudes regarding the troops and their wrapping themselves in GOD and PATRIOTISM,the average majority American gives not a tinkers damn about the war as long as THEY AND THEIR LOVED ONES DO NOT HAVE TO SERVE (that is why of course the vast majority abhor a draft) and that the war itself does not directly cost them anything or disrupts their lives in any meaningful way.

Hell,their isn't even any war tax but on the contrary huge Bush tax cuts are still bankrupting the country.This atrocity in Iraq would end in a second if there was a draft and if taxes were raised to pay for this filthy war.

Secondly and equally important is the American ETHOS of violence from it's Revolution to it's civil war to it's obscene slaughtering of Americans by hand guns every year (over 30,000) .

This GUN CULTURE ETHOS of America is reflective of and responsible for Americans always grabbing a gun before grabbing a diplomatic peaceful solution on the international level and grabbing a gun to kill somebody or themselves on a national bases.

Lastly and an all important factor which is NOT ALLOWED to be spoken of in America and that is simply some 65 % of the US media (based on readership/viewership data) is owned and or controlled by American Jewry WHICH MAKE UP BUT 2 % OF THE POPULATION.

http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/shadow/jewishmedia.htm

http://www.compuserb.com/mediain1.htm

http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/07/04/JChron_200407.html


And before you knee jerk anti-semitic screaming idiots start your spewing,the facts/data given in these URLs are VERIFIABLE.

FACTS ARE NOT ANT-SEMETIC or RACIST.FACTS ARE FACTS .

All if this to say that the Zionists and Israel will support any and all actions that make Israel safer in the middle East and if that means Americans fighting a proxy war for Israel ,so be it.The Jewish control/owned US media WILL NOT ALLOW any views to be given equal airing if it is not in Israel's interests.

Let us not forget that the Father of Neo-Conservatism is a guy named Krystal and his son Billy along with the likes of Wolfowitz and Pearl were the MAJOR creators of the strocity in Iraq .All of these people are rabid ZIONISTS with very close ties to the Likud party of Israel.

There is many FACTS that point to a Zionist push to have the US war on Iraq.

All a coinsidence?? Sure and I have some land to sell you in Florida.

The US media has allowed and encouraged the demonization of Muslims and Arabs all to make Israel safer and all to have Americans see only ONE side of the story and give all their sympathy to Israel.

Some day I pray,rich Arab/Muslims will secure 65 % control and ownership of the media and then YOU will see a whole new set of FACTS .

If 65 % of the media was owned and controlled by the American Muslims (who in FACT make up a higher proportionof the US population than do the Jews ) instead of American Jewry,all hell would break loose you can be assured .Hypocrites.Simple stinking hypocrites.

To recap,the media ON ALL THESE levels is of course complicit in America's indifference and acceptance of war BUT THE REAL BOTTOM LINE IS NOT THE BLAMING OF THE MEDIA OR WHA OR WHATEVER BUT EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN WHO CHOSES TO BE INDIFFERENT AND ACCEPTING.

At the root of most of what Chomsky writes,is that it is each and every American AND NOBODY ELSE who is to blame but like monumental stinking hypocrites ,everybody wants to blame everybody ans everything else .

This is truly moral and intellectual bankrupcy .It is also ,for the vast majority of Americans who carry their friggin faith on their sleeves in a holier-than-thou sanctimonious manner ,the very height of ANTI CHRIST LIKE BEHAVIORS ..

What a pathetic bunch .Here's to Chomsky ,the real prophet in the wilderness.

Answer 2

yes it is complicit. I find it amazing that a newspaper can headline the presidents address as "he feels its going well and wants to bring the troops home". Next July. All spin all the time. The media in this country doesnt report the news it spins information left and right.